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Acast has opened its London studios in the heart of London's Old
Street.
The space includes an Amazon Music branded studio, free to
emerging and brand new creators,
and has four multimedia studios.
Acast podcasters can use the studios for free from early next
year.
As Chartable prepares to close, Podgagement has launched a
global charts and rankings
service.
The tool monitors nearly 34,000 charts across the world.
Podcasts are here to stay.
That's according to a report by BVDW on the German podcast
landscape.
In addition to data on podcast usage, there's also an overview
of standards, technologies
and guidelines for podcast advertising, as well as tips for
media planning and campaign
booking.
It's all in German, of course.
Libsyn was suspended from the stock market in April 2022 after
the company had failed
to file financial reports.
Now, Libsyn has confirmed that it doesn't plan to relist, and is
offering to buy back
its shares at a price of $1.60 or less per share.
When suspended, the company's shares were worth $3.75.
How does your podcast rank for a specific word in US podcast
searches?
A new tool, Podcast Rank Report, has been launched by Scott Wydon
Kivowitz, which runs
the test for your podcast SEO.
It's a dollar a go.
And Amplifi Media's Steven Goldstein looks back at the ups and
downs of audio in 2024.
We'll link to that today from our show notes and our newsletter
at podnews.net.
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to Podcast Producer and
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And in podcast news, Wildcard with Rachel Martin interviewed Ira
Glass earlier this
year at Podcast Movement in Washington DC, and that interview is
in the Wildcard podcast
feed this week.
He doesn't think he's leaving a legacy with This American Life.
He says, "I'm making a show for people who hear it now, and when
it's done and we don't
make it anymore, it's perfectly fine for it to vanish into the mists
of time like everything
will.
And it's fine," he says, "if that happens very quickly."
From Australia, the ABC's If You're Listening is a good listen
and also a good watch.
The show is made with both in mind.
In host Matt Bevan's basement, separate teams edit the audio and
video versions together.
We like the use of archive material, the accessibility of the
whole thing, and the journalism is
pretty good too.
It's worth a watch or a listen.
You'll find links in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
When You're Invisible has launched for a new season, telling the
stories of people who
are often caricatured and left feeling frustrated and unseen.
The show has most recently featured a black male teacher in
Baltimore and a community
organizer in Philadelphia, working class people and folks who
are othered in American society.
And the BBC's Gangster returns for a new season today to tell
the story of Glasgow's most
notorious crime families.
This time, it delves deep into one of Scotland's deadliest gang
wars between two families,
the Daniels and the Lyons.
Hosted by investigative journalist Livvy Haydock, the latest
installment of Gangster follows
the explosive story about how two families and their associates
went to war over control
of the lucrative drug trade in North Glasgow.
And this podcast is sponsored by CBC.
From CBC, the Split Screen podcast features character-driven
narrative series taking listeners
inside the unsettling and captivating world of entertainment and
pop culture.
And CBC is now accepting pitches.
You'll find a link in the show notes.
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