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Spotify’s leaning hard into video podcasts. Here’s how creators are adapting

Fast Company Tech

What was once an audio-first medium, podcasting is now increasingly filmed and produced. We felt like it was something that we really wanted to encourage and incentivize our platform. In its early days, the show was audio-only, with a basic equalizer graphic on YouTube. The audio/video balancing act The biggest challenge?

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Amazon is reportedly building a platform for live audio concerts and performances

TechSpot

As Axios correctly highlights, live audio apps exploded in popularity during the pandemic. Clubhouse, one of the leading social audio apps for Android and iOS, revealed over the weekend that it is now averaging 700,000 live audio rooms daily – up from just 300,000 in May.

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Substack rolls out a new video feed amid the looming U.S. TikTok ban

Fast Company Tech

As a potential TikTok ban looms in the United States (again), Substack is making (another) play for video creators to join its platform. This update comes just a month after Substacks announcement that creators can now monetize their videos on the platform and publish video posts directly through the Substack app.

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 is its first mid-range chip with AI support

Engadget

Qualcomm is bringing AI to its mid-range mobile chip lineup with the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 Mobile Platform, the company announced. new features include lossless audio and a triple ISP that will allow phones to take photos and record videos simultaneously.

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[FREE WEBINAR] How Nonprofits Can Use Crowdfunding to Raise More Money

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You will learn how to set up a campaign on the GoFundMe Charity platform, the power of social sharing, and see examples of successful crowdfunding campaigns. Additional topics include: How to increase the reach of your crowdfunding campaigns through multi-channel marketing. << View All Upcoming Webinars >>

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Voicy wants to pwn gamers with audio memes

TechCrunch

If meme stocks can be a thing, what’s to stop audio meme sharing from going viral!? It’s not hard to predict where this idea goes: Straight to gross out fart sfx and pwning troll clips — which are indeed plentiful on this fledgling platform for user-generated (or, well, sampled) audio. Dank audio memes anyone?

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The next big social network trend? Shortform audio

The Verge

More people chime in, all in audio clips under 90 seconds. This, to multiple founders and investors, is the future of audio: shortform recordings that are social, shareable, and thought-provoking, or, at a bare minimum, make you want to listen and say something. Can solely audio go viral? But why the audio mania now?