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The 2024 Australian Podcast Awards took place last night in
Sydney in New South Wales.
We've a full list of the winners. You'll find it linked from our
show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
Podcast of the year went to 'Ladies, we need to talk'.
Yumi Stynes: I'm Yumi Stynes. Ladies, we need to talk about the big business
of fertility.
James Cridland: And the listeners' choice went to Toni and Ryan.
Ryan Jon: Welcome to the Tony and Ryan podcast. My name is Ryan. This is
doctor and author Tony Lodge.
Toni Lodge: Hello.
Ryan Jon: We are calling Emily, who's in Milbong, Queensland.
James Cridland: A number of podcasts also made the winners list at the Anthem
Awards, including the Free Associations Podcast,
Culture Kids, Unseen and Unheard Season 2, Public Health on Call
Podcast, Wrongful Conviction on New South, and Going Wild with
Dr. Ray Wynn-Grant.
Spotify has released a round-up of its new audiobook features in
the app, sleep timers, author pages, video clips,
(but of course!), countdown pages prior to release, follow-along
visuals and audiobook playlists.
In Sounds Profitable this week, Bryan Barletta has written about
the finer details of the Spotify for creators push to video,
calling it a 'wake-up call' for podcasting and highlighting the
monetisation options you may lose by uploading video.
OnAir Fest will feature more than six locations in Brooklyn this
time around in February,
and a welcome return for Ashley Carman, who will host the invite-only
Podcast Business Summit on February 19th.
Speaking of which, Ashley Carman's Soundbite newsletter covers
the interview podcast backlash,
reporting on Tim Ferriss' views on interview-style shows like
his.
Triton Digital released podcast rankers for Canada and the
United States. Lemonada Media is newly listed in both.
Adam Bowie looks at the Podtrack Ranker for the UK and Apple
Podcast's top UK shows of 2024.
For personal users, Hindenburg is offering an upgrade to Hindenburg
Pro 2 at up to 75% off in what it calls a 'Phoenix Fire Sale'.
You have until December 8th to take advantage of that offer.
According to its changelog, Descript has made changes too.
Overdub becomes part of 'Regenerate', its AI speech generation
tool.
You can now pay with Apple Pay and Google Pay.
The text-to-speech tool now works snappier and better, and you
can now replace media on the fly.
All of the details linked from our show notes and our newsletter
at podnews.net.
And Court News: the court action between the National
Association of the Deaf and Sirius XM for a lack of podcast
transcripts,
continues.
The latest is a request to push the case out to October 2025.
The legal action started in December 2021.
And here's a fun and entirely unrelated fact.
Average law firm billing rates were $749 per hour in 2022.
And Kast Media's bankruptcy case continues; as part of its public
filings,
we get to see the company's monthly accounts.
The company earned $5,700 from Apple Podcasts in October, we
presume from paid subscriptions, and $6,100 from advertising.
In people news, Geoffrey Fossier has joined French digital audio
company Audion as its global CMO.
And in podcast news, the Podnews Weekly Review this week
contains interviews with Neil Mody from Headliner.
Neil Mody: Joe Rogan, even when he was exclusive on Spotify, had more
subscribers on YouTube than followers on Spotify.
So you have an exclusive show on Spotify that actually has more
subscribers, followers, whatever you want to call them,
on a different platform that doesn't even have the show anymore.
James Cridland: And we hear from Alberto Bettella from RSS.com.
And I talk about podcasting's seeming open-armed welcome to
YouTube and Spotify with Sam Sethi.
Of all the podcasts that we mention, this one's obviously the
best.
A week before the election in Ireland, new podcast "From Bomb to
Ballot - The History of Sinn Féin"
tells political party Sinn Féin's journey from the political
wing of the Provisional IRA to the brink of power.
John Lee traces Sinn Féin's evolution from 1969 to the present
day.
Season 2 of Business Dad, hosted by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian,
launches with a premiere featuring award-winning filmmaker Ken
Burns.
And other cultures have some great words that English doesn't.
"Nixen" is the Dutch word for doing nothing without feeling guilty
about it.
"Kaputreparium" is German for breaking something while you try to
fix it.
And "Otsukaresama" is Japanese for a good rest after working hard.
50 Words for Snow searches out words from other cultures that
will make our lives better in some way, and launched earlier this
year.
Maybe it's time to play it to your machatunim?
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