Brendan Monaghan returns to podcasting: the latest from podnews.net with Soundstack, earning
more programmatic revenue.
Libsyn has announced a new CEO and it's an impressive hire:
the co-founder and former CEO of podcast host Megaphone, Brendan Monaghan.
Megaphone was bought by Spotify in November 2020.
Monaghan left the company in February 2022.
The company has also terminated "contractual liquidated damages obligations created by
the prior management in connection with the 2021 capital raise".
That's a process its recent stockholder meeting described as a "clean-up of the past".
Both candidates for the US presidential election are hoping to be on the Joe Rogan Experience
according to media reports, but who listens to the show?
Edison Research shares Rogan listener demographic data, including who his audience would vote
for.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris guested with The Breakfast Club, another Top 50 show hosted by Charlemagne
Tha God, which was carried live by other media outlets.
Magellan AI has unveiled its creative analyser, allowing brands to gain insight into their
competitors and strategies.
The tool looks at creative and placement.
Speakers, panelists, you can now submit your session ideas for the podcast show in London
and for Podfest Expo in Orlando.
We've the links in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
The Kast Media bankruptcy case continues with Kast Media's lawyers, suggesting that Arcadian
Vanguard's continued objections are "meritless", "flawed" and "spurious".
And the latest Triton Digital Australian Podcast Ranker was released.
Listeners are up 15% year on year.
Of note, many of the catch-up radio shows appear to be publishing full episodes as well
as partial highlights in the same feed.
A few examples: ARN's Kyle and Jackie O published 86 episodes in September, Nine's Ben Fordham
published 160 episodes and Southern Cross Austereo's The Rush Hour posted 128 new episodes.
These episodes were all produced from 21 radio programmes in September.
The auto download behaviour of most podcast apps means that all episodes, clips or the
full show are downloaded.
All episodes contain programmatically inserted advertising.
And in podcast news, Italian for sure is publishing an episode with Gabriele Tortorella, the head
coach with Barry's Milan today.
The host, Catrin Skaperdas, is marketing it by, as is still legal in Italy, sticking flyers
under the windscreen wipers of parked cars.
Don't try that in most countries though before checking it's legal where you are.
Pride Daily, the world's only daily LGBTQ+ news podcast, celebrates its first birthday
today.
The show has won a number of awards, been broadcast on the radio and has released a
number of specials over the last 12 months.
The Vergecast focuses on the history and future of podcasts this week.
Why were they called that in the first place and is that word useful at all in the future?
Guests include Adam Curry and PodNews' editor James Cridland. And Q-Code horror fiction podcast
The Edge of Sleep has been made into an Amazon Prime video series which is released today.
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