The Independent Podcast of the Year is... from London Heathrow the latest from
podnews.net with Soundstack earning more programmatic revenue. Hi I'm Chinni and
I'm Astrid and welcome to It's a Continent the podcast that widens access
to African history. Yes, in an award ceremony last night in London "It's a
continent"" won three awards including the coveted podcast of the year and the
Independent Podcast Awards. The hosts Chinny Ukata and Astrid Madimba were
handed the award for educational world business and financial by me before
winning the best history podcast category and then the biggest award of
the night. The judges said the podcast is instantly interesting, the hosts are
charming and fun and each episode was fascinating and well researched. Spotify
is improving its listener comments tool: from today new comments in English will
be automatically published by default though you can change this in your
settings keyword blocking is also available. The company says that over
650,000 podcast episodes have had a comment since July. Well, that sounds big
doesn't it - well there were 44 million new episodes published between July the
7th and October the 24th according to the podcast index: that suggests that 1.5
percent of all new episodes have attracted a comment. Spotify is also to
launch an ad exchange in the US; the initial focus on the Spotify ad exchange
will be video. RAJAR released its quarter 3 2024 audience figures in the
UK, 34% of Brits listen to a podcast at least once a month says the data by
contrast 88.3% tune into radio every week. The BBC's proprietary radio music
and podcasts app BBC Sounds reported a 2.3% increase in total plays in quarter
three but a slump in weekly audience down from 4.8 8 million to 4.7 down by
3.7 percent the number of downloads on open RSS also increased by 2% for the
quarter. Earlier this week we highlighted Nielsen's recent release of UK podcast
consumption data - Adam Bowie has taken a look concluding that the 42% weekly
reach figure is significantly higher than all other surveys. another data
point not in the press release: 71% say they normally stream episodes directly
against 26% who say they download episodes and Donald Trump who is a
candidate in the US presidential election will reportedly appear on the
Joe Rogan experience later this week. And in podcast news the art of deciding is
new and out today with the first episode featuring Lee Child the creator of the
Jack Reacher novels UK based mags creative has launched a new sex and
relationships podcast the ins and outs with Ruby and Megan in partnership with
US network dear media the Times of London has launched feel better about
money and you uplifting weekly personal finance podcast glory days with Johnny
Manziel is new today from almost Friday media he was a professional American
football quarterback dear millennial with Megan Tan is the latest addition to
the forward network launching today hosted by award-winning podcast creator
Megan Tan aims to teach life lessons through her own experience of navigating
life as a post college millennial uncover bad results is the first
original series to launch in CBC's true crime umbrella feed uncover since before
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