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Video podcasts getting more and more attention.

"Spotify says its video podcasts are seeing increased consumer adoption. In its third-quarter earnings report, the company shared that its video podcast catalog has expanded to nearly half a million shows, and more than 390 million users have now streamed a video podcast on the platform."

We're seeing deals being done to tie up video podcasts. Netflix with Spotify and iHeartMedia.

And Audioboom has far higher youtube podcast monthly views than either Spotify or iHeartMedia.

What audioboom has is extremely valuable.

Any one of Spotify, iHeartMedia, Netflix, YouTube or Apple will want Audioboom's network.

The podscribe rankings are currently showing the following YouTube monthly views:

Audioboom: 152.2m

iHeartMesia: 58.9m

Spotify: 50.9m

https://podscribe.com/top-publishers

Iheartmedia shares are up in pre-market trading following news of talks with Netflix on video podcasts.

https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-iheartmedia-video-podcast-licensing-agreement-talks-report/

This follows a deal between Netflix and Spotify on video podcasts a few weeks ago.

Podscibe recently ranked Audioboom as number 1 in video podcasting. A recent tweet from the CEO stated that audioboom had 12 of the top 100 video podcasts on youtube.

A deal between Netflix and Audioboom next?

There is huge interest in the podcast sector at the moment.

Clearly they have something they want to talk about.

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