WEBVTT 00:00.680 --> 00:05.220 Who's the keynote at Evolutions, the latest from Pod News.net 00:05.220 --> 00:11.580 with Hindenburg Pros split by Speaker. Amy Poehler has been 00:11.580 --> 00:15.580 confirmed as a Speaker at Evolutions by podcast movement 00:15.580 --> 00:19.780 in Los Angeles this March. The stand-up comedian and Emmy Award 00:19.780 --> 00:24.740 winner hosts Seymour with Dr. Sheila, for legal reasons, Dr. 00:24.920 --> 00:27.780 must be said in the form of a question, and is known for her 00:27.780 --> 00:31.800 work on SNL and on Parks and Recreation, we link to discount 00:31.800 --> 00:34.640 tickets from our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. 00:35.300 --> 00:39.360 Just before her keynote, I will unveil this year's Pod News 00:39.360 --> 00:42.520 report card and give a whistle -stop tour of the year in 00:42.520 --> 00:44.740 podcasting and a few affectionate jokes about the 00:44.740 --> 00:49.040 industry, if I can think of any. Dryton Digital's US podcast 00:49.040 --> 00:54.020 ranker for December 2023 is out, NPR's shows are back in after 00:54.020 --> 00:58.680 being absent since August for a planned data migration. The US 00:58.680 --> 01:01.640 ranker is ordered by weekly average downloads. The 01:01.640 --> 01:04.840 Australian ranker is default ordered by monthly listeners. 01:05.800 --> 01:09.660 Dryton Digital's podcast hosting service is adding support for 01:09.660 --> 01:12.760 sweepers, short jingles or presenter announcements 01:12.760 --> 01:17.080 scheduled at the start or end of ad breaks. There have reportedly 01:17.080 --> 01:22.100 been a hundred redundancies at YouTube, the company employs 7 01:22.100 --> 01:26.980 ,000 people. On AirFest has added more speakers to the event 01:26.980 --> 01:30.900 in Brooklyn on February 28th to March 1st, by the way it's a 01:30.900 --> 01:34.760 leap year this year, so there is a February 29th. It includes an 01:34.760 --> 01:38.280 interview with Ira Glass, a special session from Serial and 01:38.280 --> 01:42.140 from Freakonomics Stephen Dubner. And rss.com has made 01:42.140 --> 01:45.340 enhancements to its podcast pages including an improved 01:45.340 --> 01:50.900 podcast player and its featured community page. In People News, 01:51.120 --> 01:54.500 the Black Information Network has promoted Chris Thompson to 01:54.500 --> 01:59.340 SVP of News and Programming and Angela Ingram to SVP of Public 01:59.340 --> 02:04.120 Engagement. And in Podcast News, Podcast One has renewed its 02:04.120 --> 02:08.420 agreement with our fake history. The podcast will air its 200th 02:08.420 --> 02:13.720 episode in March. Triviality, a trivia game show podcast, is a 02:13.720 --> 02:17.200 weekly pub trivia style game show where a lack of seriousness 02:17.200 --> 02:20.340 meets a little bit of knowledge you can play along with a fast 02:20.340 --> 02:24.220 paced game every Tuesday and enjoy monthly bonus episodes and 02:24.220 --> 02:28.420 mini-tournaments. Undertow Narcosis is new today from 02:28.420 --> 02:32.260 Realm. It's a deep sea horror story of a woman who returned to 02:32.260 --> 02:35.180 a remote island to try and recover her former childhood 02:35.180 --> 02:39.660 friend, only to discover something unspeakable. Episodes 02:39.660 --> 02:43.560 release weekly from today. And in Spanish, the central podcast 02:43.560 --> 02:49.940 hosts Bukele, El Señor de los Sueños, looking at the story of 02:49.940 --> 02:53.480 the most popular president in Latin America, El Salvador's 02:53.480 --> 02:58.320 Naib Bukele. He's a publicist who rose to the presidency and 02:58.320 --> 03:01.560 managed to convince a society that the only way to solve their 03:01.560 --> 03:05.960 problems was to give him unlimited power. It's from Radio 03:05.960 --> 03:10.020 Ambalante Studios. Trailers for Selected Shows are in our new 03:10.020 --> 03:12.860 podcast trailers podcast. You can find that wherever you get 03:12.860 --> 03:16.600 your podcasts. And this podcast is sponsored by Hindenburg Pro. 03:17.140 --> 03:21.800 Is everyone on the same track split by speaker? Automatically 03:21.800 --> 03:26.460 places each voice on a separate track. You can get a free 90 day 03:26.460 --> 03:30.880 trial and 30% off by following the links today at podnews.net 03:30.880 --> 03:34.140 slash latest. And that's the latest from our newsletter to 03:34.140 --> 03:37.700 read all the stories and subscribe. We're at podnews.net.