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We start with an exclusive today.
Podpage has just added a listener survey tool
for anyone using its podcast website service.
It uses standard questions inspired by Tom Webster's
The Audience is Listening,
and you can add your own questions should you require.
The Wondery and Novel show Kill List,
a five-year investigation into the targeting
of hundreds of innocent people on a murder-for-hire website,
is to have a live show in London on December the 3rd,
it's just been announced.
Tickets went on sale this morning.
Hosts Carl Miller and producers Caroline Thornham
and Tom Wright will share backstories
of how the show was made with audio clips,
outtakes and Q and A.
Quill and Ipsos have published
the 2024 Podcast Marketing Trust Index Report.
56% say an endorsement by podcast hosts
influences their trust in a product or service.
iHeart released its quarter three 24 financials.
Podcast revenue at $114 million was up 11% year on year,
and now accounts for 11.3% of the company's total.
The company is paying more in podcast revenue sharing,
however.
Auddia released its quarter three 24 financials.
The company makes an ad skipping radio and podcast app,
and it made a loss of $1.9 million.
The financial notes say that the company has a total debt
of $87 million and needs to raise more money
to keep trading after quarter one 2025.
It's raised $10.4 million this year so far.
The New York Times also released
its quarter three 24 financials.
Podcasting is only mentioned twice in the prepared remarks.
They say, "We also began experimenting
"to make audio a more direct driver of subscriptions
"with new paid offerings available
"through Spotify and Apple."
In the UK, there are 967,000 people who listen to podcasts
but don't listen to any radio.
12.6 million people listen to podcasts each week as a whole.
McAfee has released a tool
that flags AI-generated audio within seconds.
The launch of McAfee Deep Fake Detector
is part of McAfee's Smart AI hub.
PodSift, a tool that summarizes podcasts,
has now incorporated 250 podcasts into its service.
Podcast Bestie, a newsletter and podcast
for independent creators,
is celebrating its third anniversary.
The newsletter, written by Courtney Kocak,
now has over 5,000 subscribers.
Manchester's Crowd Network has expanded,
hiring two new video producers.
Google's DAX has been appointed
Deezer's exclusive ad partner in the US.
Deezer was with TargetSpot.
And StreamYard has updated its terms
according to an email to users.
For free users, it now plans to delete all recordings
after 12 months.
The previous terms just said they could delete them
at any time if they wanted.
The company increased its monthly pricing
by 80% in September.
We last updated the Podnews Ranker in July 2022
but given all the news recently,
it's probably time to see that back again.
We use it to measure the gender balance
of the people we mention
and our gender balance of stories
over the last 90 days, it reports, was 39% female.
The page places that in context
with other parts of the podcast industry.
You can see it at podnews.net/ranker.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff.
And if you're a podcast host,
we calculate you'll be serving
each active podcast RSS feed 42,000 times a day.
So we assume that all podcast hosts
are making it easier to spot when a feed has been updated
or are using compression
to significantly lower bandwidth bills.
Well, after testing each podcast host's RSS feeds,
we were surprised at how many don't support compression
or the last modified header.
You'll find those linked from our show notes
and our newsletter at podnews.net today.
Also, are you seeing Apple Podcasts
reject more of your own VTT transcripts lately
and insisting on using its own? Would be curious to know.
Please drop us an email if that's the case.
And from the archive,
we link to an idea for an incognito mode for podcasting.
And in podcast news in 2023,
there were 656 mass shootings in the United States.
The one in Lewiston in Maine on October the 25th
was the deadliest.
It may also have been the most preventable.
One year later, a podcast called Breakdown
explores the missed opportunities to prevent the shooting,
the roles of guns and hunting in Maine's politics
and the aftermath for shooting victims,
some of whom were deaf and hard of hearing.
It's a limited series from Maine Public Radio,
the Portland Press Herald and Frontline,
the award-winning PBS investigative documentary series.
Hollywood's biggest night is also the most baffling.
The film frequently hailed as the greatest film of all time
didn't take home the Oscar.
And two of the top 100 American films of all time
were overlooked for nominations in the same year.
Oscars, what were they thinking is new today
with historical insights, engaging discussions
and never heard before stories.
The Binge Crimes: Lady Mafia started earlier this month.
It's a podcast that explores the world of Orange County
in California and their high powered lawyer, Sarah King,
who was accused of scamming investors
out of $10 million before her story was splashed
across the headlines.
The show features Sarah King herself
speaking for the first time who says she's no con artist.
And Mark Lombardi's intricate drawings traced hot money
from cold war funding to the heroin trade.
But his most dogged scrutiny fell on the Bank of Credit
and Commerce International, BCCI.
That was a global money laundry bank rolling fraudsters,
smugglers and CIA operations abroad.
A new show from Project Brazen, The Illuminator asks
whether that was why he was found dead at 48.
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