The podcast deal that never was

• Amazon Music asked to reduce a potential $10m deal with Pushkin Industries, after the audio division was told to make savings, according to Bloomberg. The Great Podcasting Market Correction highlights recent employment freezes and layoffs in the industry, and a slowdown of acquisitions. Ad sales have increased though, says Magellan AI in the article.

• Podcast Movement Evolutions has announced the second set of speakers for Las Vegas in March. CES has kicked off in the city.

• The New Yorker publishes an article on influencers “earning tens of thousands on Instagram”.

• The BBC says that the most listened-to podcast on BBC Sounds over the festive period (Dec 20-Jan 2) was Newscast; and that the service saw 9% more listens over the holidays this year (57.7m, including live/catch-up radio).

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From editaudio: Lost Voices: An Untold Story of the South Asian Diaspora A four-part interview series hosted by journalist Alisha Sawhney that explores how South Asians in Canada collect, preserve and reconstruct family and community histories.

Operation: Tradebom is a new show from Apple TV+ on the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Narrated by Marc Smerling, it’s produced by Truth Media in partnership with Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and is hosted on Amazon’s ART19.

The Future of XYZ has a new home: Rhode Island PBS. Through a collaboration between Rhode Island PBS and the host Lisa Gralnek, the station will release a new episode of Future of XYZ every other Thursday, beginning January 19.

Pushkin’s Not Lost returns today with a second season. Brendan Francis Newnam sits down with travelers, frequent fliers, and regular old misfits about their various journeys around the world. Each episode contains an interview with a travel writer of note, an audio postcard from whatever locale Brendan is passing through, and travel tips from celebrities on-the-go. For the first show, Brendan goes to Hollywood.

We Study Billionaires from The Investor’s Podcast Network has hit 100 million downloads. The show has been a staple Finance and Investing-focused podcast since 2014. The Investor’s Podcast Network comprises 30 full-time employees and is anticipating at least seven figures in profit for 2023.