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How a podcast award really
works, the latest from podnews

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.net with Hindenburg Pro's Sound
Library. Pod The North today

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takes a deep dive into the
Signal Awards, which are run by

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the same company as the Webby's.
There were 600 winners in more

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than 100 categories last year.
The story says that the judging

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process is opaque and that the
177 judges were not compensated

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for their time. Additionally,
the former managing director for

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the Signal Awards, Geondrick
Royster, is quoted as saying, we

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really didn't think anyone
outside of the United States

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would probably be winners. Ouch.
From one type of award to

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another, podcast growth agency
Bumper has analyzed 28.5 million

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Apple Podcast star ratings in
the US store to learn how they

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work. Crime Junkie has the most
US ratings at 344,000, but only

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28% of shows have any star
ratings at all. This podcast is

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sponsored by Hindenburg Pro,
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library to help you enhance your
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get you a free trial. Finalist,
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supporting premium podcast
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premium episodes with them, and
the service takes a 7% cut from

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your income. Digidae reports how
podcast networks are using AI

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tools for their ad sales, happy
one-year anniversary to the 604

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podcast network, which is
celebrating with the launch of a

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number of new shows. Spectral
Podcasting is an AI-powered

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editing service. Behind the
hood, it's using Zapier and

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earning $5,000 a month in
recurring revenue. And podcaster

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and host of the 48 Days Podcast,
Dan Miller, has died of

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pancreatic cancer. He was 76. He
released his last podcast

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episode after 17 years in
December. Podcast movements

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Jared Easley said his love for
his family, business and

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relationships was inspiring, to
say the least. Dave Jackson

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said, this breaks my heart, such
an amazing man. And John

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Corcoran said he was such an
inspiration. We'll see you

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tomorrow. I've been given the
gift of being able to think and

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reflect. I mean, I'm having
amazing conversations with Joy

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and my wife, my kids and my
grandkids. I mean, we're

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celebrating now, rather than
after I'm gone. So, until we

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meet again, I'm your friend for
eternity, Dan Miller.