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• Blubrry Podcasting has announced an exclusive partnership with Podpage - replacing its own landing pages with a website from Podpage, giving creators access to a significantly more powerful and customisable online presence. Here's an example for Podcast Insider.
• Triton Digital released its Q1 2026 US Podcast Ranker, which reveals that comedy is the #1 podcast category, seeing a significant increase in the quarter. Pod Save America is #1 by average weekly downloads.
• Digital audio in the US is already worth Brazil’s entire digital ad market, writes Rodrigo Tigre for Podnews today. In spite of 92% of Brazilians consuming some form of audio every month, audio spend in the country is so small, it doesn't even appear in the latest IAB figures. But, says the co-founder of Ozen.fm, it could take very little to move the needle in audio's favour.

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