Here's what you need to know for today in the busines of podcasting: Sounds Profitable will be returning to Evolutions by Podcast Movement with the Partner Lounge and two public panels, Podcastle's U.S. survey finds which podcasts are hot with politically-attentive respondents, eMarketer finds poltical ad spend is nearly triple what it was in 2016, and Spotify is testing video-based learning courses in the UK version of the app. 

Find links to everything mentioned and the full write-up here at Sounds Profitable.