The top 50 US podcasts for Q1/2024
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Edison Research has published its Top 50 Podcasts in the US for Q1 2024. There’s a new entry at #4: New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce. Our list includes hosts (Megaphone host 22 of the top 50) and links to each, with trailers where posted.
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First look: Podscribe has announced “International Research”, with detailed insights into the top 600 shows in Germany, Mexico, France, the UK, Australia and Canada.
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Spotify has added “consumption hours” data to its podcast dashboard, says podcast growth agency Bumper. It’ll show you how long your audience has spent with each episode on Spotify: a vital metric to help understand how well your show is doing.
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Spotify’s The Ringer is taking residency at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. For six weeks, the company will be recording live shows, including The Ringer-Verse and The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. Tickets are here.
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The Triton Digital Podcast Ranker is out for Australia. ABC News Top Stories is new at #3 (like NPR News Now, it’s the bulletin that also appears if you ask a smart speaker for the latest news). Everyone is a winner: ARN/iHeart is #1 publisher by listeners; LiSTNR/SCA is #1 sales representative, though ARN is close on its heels, and the ABC is #1 for total downloads.
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Try the Accidental Tech Podcast on Spotify, and you’ll see it has a full (automated) transcript, and automated chapters. Spotify tells us that “we are currently running some tests exploring transcription and chapter functionality”. (We see a transcripts setting in Spotify’s podcaster dashboard, too).
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Time is running out to enter the British Podcast Awards - it closes tomorrow night.
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Sonos appears to have ruined its speakers for podcast listeners.
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The bankruptcy case of former podcast producer Kast Media is continuing in court. Arcadian Vanguard, the company behind Jim Cornette’s podcasts, has objected to a claim by CEO Colin Thomson for any money; the judge has reduced his claim by 50%. Arcadian Vanguard has also claimed that money destined for SoundStack might belong to them instead. Meanwhile, X1T LLC (which is fighting a separate case against Kast Media) is also objecting against protection given to Colin Thomson, who they say has not claimed bankruptcy himself.
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Court action between the National Association of the Deaf and SiriusXM rumbles on. The case is about the lack of podcast transcripts in SiriusXM’s app. A transcript has been made of a recent court conference: but, we’ve 90 days to wait until that transcript about the unavailable transcripts becomes, um, an available transcript.
Tips and tricks - with Ausha 🚀
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Ausha suggests: Explore Ausha’s curated list of the top tools for AI-assisted podcast editing
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Ausha suggests: Watch how artificial intelligence is transforming the podcast industry in this YouTube Short
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Timing is everything, and editing all the breaths out of a podcast makes it sound just plain weird, suggests Danny Brown.
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Podcast data for May 15
#1 in Apple Podcasts
Acquired (Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal)
La Cotorrisa (La Cotorrisa Podcast)
#1 in Spotify
The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan)
El Podcast de Marian Rojas Estapé (Marian Rojas Estapé)
Over the last week, 204,026 podcasts published at least one new episode (down 1.3%). source
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