Deezer today announced it has launched podcasts in Turkey. Deezer says users in Turkey can now access their favorite podcasts in the dedicated “Shows” tab in the app.

Deezer this week introduced podcasts to Israel. Podcasts are available in Israel in the podcast tab “Shows.”

Deutsche Telekom today announced the launch of a new Smart Speaker, that comes with Deutsche Telekom’s new voice assistant, and also with Amazon’s Alexa, as second voice assistant.

Podhero was launched last week, on 4th of June, and the app has the mission to help podcast creators get paid. Subscribers pay $5.99 per month, and the subscription is divided and shared among the shows they choose to support.

70% of Canadians are listening online audio; 37% of Canadians age 18 and older are monthly podcast listeners; 18% have listened to online audio in-car; 26% of those in Canada age 18+ own at least one smart speaker.

Sonos last week launched Sonos Radio, a free and ad-supported streaming radio service, in France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, and New Zealand.

AdsWizz today announced the addition of Anne Frisbie as Senior Vice President (SVP) of Global Supply.

Nielsen this week launched Gracenote Audio On Demand, a dataset enabling search and discovery of over 37 million podcast episodes across all audio platforms.