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• Another Clubhouse competitor
• Public, the trading and social networking app, is the next app to get into live audio.
• Like many apps before it, the company says it’s planning to roll out live audio features starting this week under the name Public Live.
• Unlike its competitors, like Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces, Public will initially program these chats with moderators it pays, meaning not just anyone can start a conversation.
• It’ll host about three events a week, and users will receive a push notification to join, along with a badge inside the app allowing them to hop into it.
• Topics might include coverage of an upcoming IPO, the day’s news, or analysis.
• The first chat will be between Scott Galloway, who co-hosts the Pivot podcast and is an investor in the app, and Stephanie Ruhle, an NBC News senior business correspondent and MSNBC anchor.
• It’ll be live in the app today and won’t be recorded for publication anywhere else. Other future hosts include Nora Ali, a former Cheddar News anchor, and Kinsey Grant, co-founder of Thinking is Cool and the former host of the Morning Brew Business Casual podcast.

Work-from-Home Leads to Enormous Shift in US Audio Consumption

• As a significant share of American workers shifted to at-home employment in 2020, naturally their audio consumption patterns were deeply affected as well.
• Data from Edison Research’s Share of Ear® survey allows its clients to quantify those shifts and also to predict how things might shift again if and when people go back to commuting to offices and other work locations.
• the latest Share of Ear release shows a clear difference in listening between those working primarily at home vs. those not working from home.
• Among employed persons who work from home, nearly three-quarters of their total audio consumption (72%) happens at home. Meanwhile, among those who work away from their homes, only 29% of their listening happens at home.
• From Share of Ear data in 2020, we know that a tremendous amount of listening had shifted to home as a result of quarantine restrictions.
• While almost everyone was spending at least some increased time at home during the pandemic, it is those who shifted their work to their homes where we see the major growth
• Audio consumption rises on computers and other devices such as internet-connected televisions, so we can see that at-home workers are using various audio devices at home.”
• As quarantine restrictions continue to evolve and the American workforce continues to adapt to workplace changes, Share of Ear® will continue to track these findings as we see normality resume.

APPLE iOS 14.6 and macOS Big Sur 11.4 now available with new Apple Podcasts subscriptions

• Apple released its latest update Monday, and it’s largely focused on audio and podcast improvements, including several bug fixes and that group together shows based on the creator.
• This new OS update will allow Apple Music subscribers to enable lossless audio or Dolby Atmos once it’s available next month, and it also debuts Apple Podcasts subscriptions.
• Podcasts users can now subscribe to content in the app for extra perks like ad-free and bonus content, as well as early access.
• Apple is also improving the Podcasts app with the ability to mark all episodes as played, recover old episodes, and remove downloads.