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Gretchen Rubin partners with Lemonada
The author's company will add its shows to Lemonada Media's slate.
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11/12/24•5m 42s
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11/12/24•1m 13s
Apple Podcasts improved on Android
You can now install it so it works just like an app.
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10/12/24•5m 22s
2025 Podcast Hall of Fame inductees announced
And a yearly report from a fiction podcast.
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09/12/24•9m 31s
Acast acquires Wonder Media Network
The company will form a new division called Acast Creative Solutions.
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06/12/24•5m 16s
Spotify unveils “2024 Wrapped”
You've played music for your kids in the car too?.
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05/12/24•4m 26s
Apple’s show of 2024 is Hysterical
That's its name. Plus, Canadian listening increases.
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04/12/24•6m 34s
Acast open studios in London
And Podgagement starts checking 34,000 charts globally.
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03/12/24•4m 11s
Podcast Show London 2025 tickets now on sale
And free consulting for people who have lost their jobs.
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02/12/24•7m 27s
The Spotify exec who is ignoring video
And does adding full video make any difference? We discover it does..
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29/11/24•4m 44s
Things to be thankful for in podcasting
Be thankful to Justin Jackson, Gavin Newsome, Audacy and ElevenLabs.
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28/11/24•3m 1s
The Rest is Politics now #1 UK-made podcast
And it's JLD at Podfest.
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27/11/24•3m 7s
How people discover podcasts
The founder of Single Source Media acquires a controlling stake in LiveRead.
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26/11/24•3m 54s
Evergreen Podcasts acquires Rhapsody Voices
Podcast revenue grows nicely in Australia; and changes for streaming payments.
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25/11/24•8m 13s
Australian Podcast Awards - the winners
Spotify released new audiobook features, Tim Ferriss criticizes interview-style podcasts.
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22/11/24•5m 31s
Podscribe: longer ads are more cost-effective
YouTube leads podcast listening in US with 31% share over Spotify's 27%; Rogers Sports & Media cuts jobs..
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21/11/24•5m 23s
Apple Podcasts: most popular podcasts of 2024
Spotify playlists and podcasts are being exploited for piracy links, and Triton Digital updates Australian podcast rankings with new listener metrics..
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20/11/24•6m 9s
Amazon Music adds audiobooks in Spotify fight
Casefile (80M listens) moves to Acast, and 30% of new podcasts die within two months.
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19/11/24•4m 39s
YouTube execs to host Q&A
Spotify prioritizes video podcasts over HiFi audio, Apple removes Russian-language podcasts in Russia, and Triton Digital launches podcast demographics service in Netherlands..
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18/11/24•5m 1s
Trump and Harris’s podcast audience size
Acast reduces free hosting to five episodes, Spotify introduces video thumbnails, and Realm expands with Countdown Network addition..
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15/11/24•2m 15s
Now Playing: Spotify for Creators
Spotify posted its first profitable quarter with $32mn profit and 640 million monthly users.
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14/11/24•7m 15s
New Board of Governors for the Podcast Hall of Fame
Magellan AI expands podcast promo tracking, Wondercraft and Frequency enables AI-powered ad personalization, while researchers examine podcast audience inclusivity challenges..
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13/11/24•2m 29s
RØDE launches “Wireless Micro” microphones
Pocket Casts aligns with Apple and Spotify by changing Subscribe to Follow, while The Podcast Haven launches a unified search tool.
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12/11/24•4m 0s
Podpage adds a listener survey tool
Financial results from iHeart, Auddia, and the New York Times.
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11/11/24•6m 46s
Train company’s podcast promotion on the right track
Spotify makes it easier to share to TikTok.
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08/11/24•3m 49s
Podcast ads are “too difficult to buy”
And new FTC rules.
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07/11/24•3m 30s
Acast grows in the US
And podcasts on a plane.
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06/11/24•3m 38s
The most popular colour for successful business podcasts
And 20% of digital ads on Spotify are video ads.
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05/11/24•4m 27s
Podchaser now carries “political skew” data on podcasts
And the number of automatic NotebookLM podcasts grows.
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04/11/24•5m 11s
Daily Mail podcasts expand to the US
Podcast revenue is up for SiriusXM.
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01/11/24•5m 22s
Sennheiser launch three-in-one microphones
And a show gets Kickstarter funding to launch.
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31/10/24•2m 56s
Newspaper’s hit podcast not all it seems
And Acast's new Podcast Pulse report.
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30/10/24•4m 44s
New country rankers from Podtrac
And there are now more than 100 million podcast episodes.
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29/10/24•3m 40s
AI - new patents, and new Parkinson
And, the biggest podcast in YouTube.
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28/10/24•5m 2s
Podcasting reaches Gen Z like no other
And a newspaper dares to suggest podcasts don't reach enough people.
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25/10/24•3m 37s
'It’s a Continent' is Independent Podcast of the year
The show won three awards yesterday.
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24/10/24•4m 1s
The world’s largest podcast agency is created
And an attack on archive.org knocks podcasts offline.
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23/10/24•3m 32s
Podcast Days takes place in Madrid
and Amazon becomes the largest podcast spender.
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22/10/24•3m 52s
Women in Podcasting Awards winners
Over 15,000 listeners participated in the voting process.
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21/10/24•3m 57s
Canadian Podcast Awards open
And Podtrac launch new cross-promotion tool.
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18/10/24•3m 25s
Ad revenue drops for This American Life: launches paid model
Revenue is down by nearly a third, says Ira Glass.
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17/10/24•4m 20s
Megaphone’s Brendan Monaghan returns to podcasting
A big new hire; plus, Magellan AI lets you peer into your competitors ad plans.
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16/10/24•4m 0s
Revenue up 34% for Audioboom
and brands need sound identities.
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15/10/24•4m 0s
Study: AI-generated episode titles and descriptions v humans
And free tickets for a big virtual event later this week.
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14/10/24•6m 8s
Questions for YouTube
And PodcastAddict gets suspended, again.
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11/10/24•4m 3s
Popular podcast goes on the road
And a new low for Apple Podcasts, again.
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10/10/24•4m 24s
New tool to fight the rise of AI podcasts
And, Todd Cochrane makes it 20 years in podcasting today.
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09/10/24•5m 38s
The podcast paywall that’s working great
30,000 subscribers in just six months!.
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08/10/24•5m 19s
“Just add audio”, suggests SiriusXM
And a Vice President makes it onto Call Her Daddy.
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07/10/24•4m 24s
An interview with Spotify’s Maya Prohovnik
And a bug in Apple Podcasts makes podcast episodes played.
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04/10/24•4m 32s
Apple expands transcripts to eight more languages
And Ausha launches Ausha Intelligence.
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03/10/24•6m 41s
Esther Manito to host Independent Podcast Awards
And a new chart from Apple Podcasts.
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02/10/24•4m 11s
Podcast host Podeo raises $5.4mn
Plus, Steve Pratt's new book - we review it and give you the first chapter.
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01/10/24•4m 24s
International Podcast Day at PodFest Dubai
New data from Acast, the Podcast Awards, and a new podcast consulting firm.
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30/09/24•6m 7s
Chartable to close
Spotify are having a re-focus of their tools.
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27/09/24•5m 14s
NYT to offer podcast subscriptions in Apple and Spotify
AntennaPod also gets transcripts.
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26/09/24•4m 36s
Now, it’s the RØDECaster Video
and a free year's Pocket Casts Plus membership for everyone.
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25/09/24•4m 44s
Australia: now, two million daily podcast listeners
And Blubrry launches Pod2Vid.
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24/09/24•4m 0s
Pocket Casts gets transcripts
And is podcasting dead?.
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23/09/24•5m 14s
Smarter and better: podcasting’s second wave of deals
And the new features in Apple Podcasts.
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20/09/24•6m 0s
Podcasts: most trusted, say registered voters
And YouTube adds new gamification features.
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19/09/24•4m 54s
Spotify ad revenue to reach $2.1bn this year
...and the nominations for the Black Podcasting Awards.
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18/09/24•5m 0s
Former Pacific Content staff launch a sequel
And, is podcasting forgetting to support diversity?.
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17/09/24•3m 41s
Podcast fills stadium with listeners
And happy 20th birthday, the word 'podcast'.
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16/09/24•5m 2s
Spotify opens its wallet again: but now, for video
And the BBC doubles-down on its windowing strategy.
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13/09/24•4m 23s
Buzzsprout rolls out redesigned podcast websites
New websites are almost as good as those from Podpage....
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12/09/24•4m 46s
Streamyard pricing ruffles feathers
And LAist gets $2.4mn for local journalism.
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11/09/24•3m 55s
iOS 18 out next week; with enhancements to chapters
Apple also announced a whole load of new headphones.
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10/09/24•5m 14s
Indie podcaster gets an Emmy®
And Spotify gets ready to launch a new thing for marketers.
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09/09/24•5m 58s
Lateral comedy panel game grows
And a new gaming microphone from Shure - but it's not for podcasting.
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06/09/24•6m 17s
Kids’ podcast becomes kids’ book
The World’s Wackiest Bandits features stories about the smartest, dumbest, most charming and strangest criminals..
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05/09/24•3m 47s
Ashley Flowers launches So Supernatural on Friday
And a new tool to help market your podcast.
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04/09/24•3m 45s
Podcast Day Asia in Kuala Lumpur
Emily Kwong from NPR explained the process behind Inheriting.
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03/09/24•2m 45s
Megaphone now fourth-largest host
And a look at Asian podcast listening.
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02/09/24•5m 33s
Aussie data shows podcast growth
And, detail of how the Spotify algorithm works.
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30/08/24•4m 11s
Data shows new opportunities for podcasting
And the biggest shows in the UK.
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29/08/24•3m 51s
New Heights gets new owner
The deal is said to be worth more than $100mn over three years..
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28/08/24•4m 32s
Joe Rogan: 3x the Spotify followers than the #2 show
And do most podcast consumers want to listen to new shows?.
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27/08/24•3m 57s
Serial’s creator on podcasting, ten years on
The current podcast industry is in a worrisome cycle, she says.
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26/08/24•5m 58s
Podcast Movement 2024 ends in Washington DC
And Listen are to launch two new visualised podcasts.
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23/08/24•2m 23s
Horses in the Morning hits 3,500 episodes
And a new way for podcasts to make revenue.
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22/08/24•3m 52s
Ausha launches SEO-aware “Ausha Intelligence”
And, photos from Ira Glass on stage.
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21/08/24•3m 53s
Apple Podcasts is now on the web… and Android
Apple's new web app makes premium podcasts work everywhere.
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20/08/24•4m 3s
Thrumm - a music library for podcasters launches
And the latest on the Kast Media and Podcast One story.
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19/08/24•5m 59s
NPR #1 again in Triton’s US Podcast Ranker
And a new workers agreement at the Crooked Media.
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16/08/24•3m 27s
Danger - rising podload
And the most popular podcasts in the US.
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15/08/24•5m 19s
Apple’s 30% cut of Patreon’s creator payments
And the Aussie Ranker shows good news.
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14/08/24•4m 47s
Podcast ads generate as much attention as TV ads
And - ad performance does badly if you repeat the same ad more than once in a show.
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13/08/24•5m 19s
Bumper announces new dashboard for clients
And who are the most powerful people in podcasting in 2024?.
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12/08/24•5m 24s
iHeart’s podcast growth slows to 8%
Podscribe is now v2.2 compliant; and GARM is gone.
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09/08/24•4m 9s
A virtual studio for your podcast
Clips that are shot professionally are more than twice as likely to go viral than clips shot on a webcam..
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08/08/24•4m 16s
Brand safety: X sues, while new partnership helps
And a major podcast hosting company doesn't have a CEO today. But who?.
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07/08/24•6m 38s
Goalhanger’s podcast success
Tens of millions of downloads. And - YouTube's success in podcasting was a surprise?.
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06/08/24•4m 43s
Wondercraft launches Ad Studio
The NYT adds a new show to open RSS, and is Bill Simmons leaving Spotify?.
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05/08/24•5m 14s
Premium SiriusXM podcasts / trouble at Crooked Media?
Descript gets a new remote recording tool.
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02/08/24•6m 25s
Megaphone is IAB certified again
Compliant to v2.2 as well! Plus, Libsyn Ads releases its July 2024 data.
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01/08/24•5m 9s
UK’s Listen focuses on shows you can watch
They have a Head of Visualised Podcasts now.
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31/07/24•3m 30s
Amount of ads in podcasts grows by 20%
Still much smaller than broadcast radio, though.
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30/07/24•3m 29s
Lower Street buys Pacific Content
And Dave Jackson's new gig is revealed.
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29/07/24•5m 1s
The adblocking podcast app
Acast's financial results, and a new book from Tom Webster.
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26/07/24•6m 17s
Podcast listening grows among Black Americans
Spotify rebrands Ad Studio, and the British Podcast Awards nominations.
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25/07/24•3m 44s
Spotify (and Audioboom) post profit
And more keynote speakers at Podcast Movement - including Ira Glass!.
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24/07/24•7m 57s
First company certifies to IAB v2.2
AI clips for Blubrry, Kast Media's accounts, new Megaphone stats.
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23/07/24•3m 55s
Trouble in Paradiso: podcast company goes bankrupt
How many active podcasts are there - and how has that changed?.
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22/07/24•5m 45s
Windows outage causes havoc
AI voice cloning unethical, Tink Media celebrates 5 years, Podcast Movement announces speakers..
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19/07/24•5m 6s
Is “brand safety” locking up podcast revenue?
Blubrry is launching an AI-powered podcast clip generator, Podfest has received a strategic investment and new leadership, and concerns have been raised about tech companies potentially using YouTube videos to train their AI models without permission..
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18/07/24•4m 28s
Audacy get the Office Ladies
The launch of the Podcards podcast growth tool, the release of a new version of the Overcast podcast app, and the release of the Australian Podcast Ranker for June 2024 showing a decrease in total downloads and fewer episodes published..
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17/07/24•5m 7s
Women in Podcasting Awards deadline draws near
Adobe has launched a new podcast recording and editing tool called Adobe Podcast Studio in beta, while senior leadership is leaving Libsyn Ads.
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16/07/24•4m 32s
Dave Jackson leaves Libsyn
Rhapsody Voices gets new shows, and free tickets to a virtual event this week.
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15/07/24•4m 43s
Is Lemonada Media for sale?
Armchair Expert leaves Spotify; and why people are complaining about Spotify's podcast ads.
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12/07/24•4m 25s
A new Overcast is on the way
This American Life switches sales house. And is TuneIn still alive?.
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11/07/24•4m 41s
Spotify adds Comments; and a new mobile app for podcasters
Are they comments done right? Plus, a podcast platform closes, and Descript gets a power upgrade.
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10/07/24•4m 47s
The most popular podcast microphone is…
Two new patents from Spooler, and YouTube is top of another survey for podcasts.
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09/07/24•4m 59s
WNYC is 100 years old today
New Podtrac numbers are out, and Podnews in lots of different languages.
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08/07/24•5m 55s
4,600 AI voices to choose from
And, Marcus Brigstocke confirmed as the host of the British Podcast Awards.
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05/07/24•3m 12s
The Asia Podcast Awards are launched
You could be flown to KL.
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04/07/24•3m 20s
Podcast listening in Australia bigger than the US
And the mysterious disappearance of shows from Podium.
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03/07/24•4m 26s
Podcast ad rates are on the rise
But the number of active podcasts is down.
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02/07/24•2m 41s
Spotify now has 250,000 video podcasts
The number of creators actively publishing video each month has grown nearly 70% year-over-year, says the company..
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01/07/24•4m 11s
Acast promotes trustworthy content prior to UK election
Large increase in politics podcast listening. Plus, a new space in Podcast Movement, and PAVE Studios does books..
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28/06/24•3m 47s
Hark launches The Conversation - curated podcast discovery
A new feature coming in Apple Podcasts - and part of Zombie Google Podcasts has come back to life.
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27/06/24•4m 29s
Is the NYT going to paywall its podcasts?
And, RedCircle adds more features for advertisers, while Megatrax makes it easier to search its music library.
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26/06/24•4m 19s
RØDECaster Pro II now available in white
An Android app for Buzzsprout, and a new podcast page in YouTube!.
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25/06/24•5m 15s
Google Podcasts closes, and joins the graveyard
It's finally dead, well, almost, at least. Plus, Call Her Daddy gets closer to a buyer.
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24/06/24•5m 33s
Now, iHeart tops two US podcast rankers
Number one for podcasting - according to both Podtrac and Triton Digital.
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21/06/24•4m 32s
Study: $1 in podcast ads = $4.90 in increased sales
Podcast advertising gives better return on ad-spend than ads on social media or radio..
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20/06/24•3m 44s
True crime shows, filtered
Another new high for Spotify, says Libsyn. And the most influential podcasters..
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19/06/24•3m 59s
Monthly podcast listeners continue to grow
Libsyn integrates YouTube podcasts.
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18/06/24•5m 0s
Beyond the smartphone: PodLP launches on Cloud Phone
We also look at three ways to save bandwidth for podcast hosts, and even for listeners.
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17/06/24•5m 24s
Spotify for Podcasters release new terms of use
We take a good long look at them, but there are no surprises..
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14/06/24•5m 52s
Ad-skipping insights released for podcasts
Podcasting does surprisingly well for ad-skipping, it turns out.
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13/06/24•3m 59s
UK Podcast Consumer study announced
Acast also reappears in Podtrac's global ranker.
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12/06/24•3m 29s
A new manager for The Signal Awards
She used to be director of On Air Fest. Plus, a new AI-driven podcast player..
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11/06/24•4m 16s
Spotify rolls out video for all podcasts
But there's a catch....
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10/06/24•4m 57s
More languages for your analytics
Text mode from Podcastle, and collaboration in the industry.
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07/06/24•2m 54s
The UK’s top 25 podcasts
And a new season of software for Descript.
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06/06/24•3m 11s
Riverside’s “VideoDub” launched in early access
A system that corrects both the audio... and the lip sync. Impressive....
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05/06/24•4m 9s
Co-listening: podcasting could be bigger than we think
Also, is a podcast hosting company about to be sold?.
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04/06/24•3m 15s
Spotify’s Megaphone to return to IAB certification
Good news from Spotify; as it releases details on how it will 'protect election integrity'.
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03/06/24•4m 32s
Pocket Casts looking at supporting transcripts
That would make it the 19th app to support them. Plus, an upcoming Sports Audio Report..
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31/05/24•3m 27s
Stephen Bartlett’s new Samsung TV Plus channel
And is Spotify working for the industry, or for itself?.
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30/05/24•5m 2s
Podcasts reach younger audiences
The median age of a podcast listener is 22 years younger than television.
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29/05/24•2m 52s
Vancouver’s Pacific Content to close
Big branded podcast company's owner to 'focus on core business'.
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28/05/24•2m 52s
Podcast Day Asia announced for September in KL
and the first Women in Podcasting Awards are announced.
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27/05/24•2m 15s
10,000 visit London
10,000 attend The Podcast Show. Plus, a bill of listener rights for AI..
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24/05/24•4m 24s
Lemonada to make pop culture podcast with the BBC
And Libsyn suddenly closes a production tool.
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23/05/24•1m 45s
New data shows Spotify’s global dominance
You should see the data in Mexico.
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22/05/24•3m 16s
Podcasters to gather in London for The Podcast Show
Better Help is still #1 for US podcast ad spend; and two new Podcast Radio outlets.
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21/05/24•2m 36s
Wondercraft launches “parrot mode”
And a big acquisition in London just ahead of The Podcast Show.
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20/05/24•4m 0s
Study: podcast listeners are affluent and educated
And a public transport special for Podcast Ads In The Wild.
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17/05/24•2m 58s
Spotify changes Megaphone monetisation “price floor”
And guess who's been to Buckingham Palace to see the King?.
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16/05/24•3m 38s
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