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Edison Research published the top 25 UK podcasts for Quarter 3/24.
Goalhanger celebrates improvements in placing for all of its
four top 25 shows, including
The Rest Is Politics, which makes it to number two in the
country behind the US-made Joe
Rogan Experience.
There are only two shows from the US in the chart. Acast hosts
nine shows, Megaphone hosts
seven, and the BBC hosts five.
John Lee Dumas and Kate Erickson Dumas from Entrepreneurs on
Fire have been announced
as keynotes at Podfest Expo in Orlando this January.
Spotify launched Spotify for Authors for audiobook authors and
publishers.
RSS.com has automatically removed Chartable prefixes from
podcasts hosted on the service,
according to the company's latest release notes. Chartable
prefixes stop working on
December 12th and will render your entire podcast unplayable if
you don't remove them.
In further reading, Bryan Barletta writes about the implications
of Spotify for creators.
Neil Veglio writes "the hidden risks of YouTube and Spotify that
the suck-up podcast bros
on LinkedIn won't admit".
There's the title!
And James Cridland - wait that's me - writes "BBC Sounds, is it
going away internationally?"
I'm blogging personally but I wonder whether the obvious
contradictions in the BBC's
podcast strategy means that the corporation's BBC Sounds is
going away for non-UK listeners.
And our events section is currently closed for new entries while
we sharpen our anti-spammer
axe.
It'll return shortly.
In People News, our favourite Acast PR person beginning with the
letter M, Molly DeMellier,
has been promoted to Director of Marketing and Public Relations.
And in podcast news, Blue Sky isn't a podcast about a social
media network but it is one
about optimism.
The special Thanksgiving episode features insights from Bill
Burke and past guests like
Burt Jacobs, David Gardner and neuroscientist Dr Richie Davidson,
exploring how thankfulness
can foster optimism and resilience.
And Russell Howard's Five Brilliant Things is the new name for
Russell Howard's Wonderbox
and relaunches today in partnership with Adelicious and
Patreon.
Each week a different special guest sits down with Russell to
explain the items from their
lives that bring them happiness.
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