Podpage acquires The School of Podcasting

Podcast website company Podpage has acquired Dave Jackson's School of Podcasting. Podpage will offer a free tier of education courses, as well as access to 1:1 coaching with Dave and the team. The curriculum will be redesigned, and the School of Podcasting will be expanding to include expert guest instructors. The all-cash deal with ongoing revenue share will allow the Hall of Famer to focus on building the School of Podcasting further. There’s a Town Hall tomorrow for questions.

In Australia, a new growth platform for independent podcasters, podtential, has launched. The company is built around a proprietary diagnostic tool which is used to deliver personalised coaching to help creators reach their goals.

YouTube published a blog post recently, which we linked to - only for them to quietly remove the post. Here it was; of note, it contains an interesting stat that we don’t recall seeing before: globally, YouTube users are now viewing over 100 million hours of podcasts every day.