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Dan Taberski's Hysterical from Wondery and Pineapple Street
Studios has been named the
Apple Podcast's 2024 Show of the Year. There's a special
interview with Dan on Apple's website
talking about how he makes the show, which is about cases of
mass hysteria throughout
history and what they say about society. It's the fifth show of
the year from Apple Podcasts
joining NPR's Code Switch, Pushkin's A Slight Change of Plans,
Slate's Slow Burn,
Roe vs Wade and Lemonada Media's Wiser Than Me. All winners have
been from the US.
Minneapolis and Paul magazine is excited. One of the most
influential executives in
podcasting lives in Minneapolis, they say. It's Jessica Cordova Kramer,
who manages
to get a shout out to PodNews in the middle of the interview,
for which she gets extra
points from us. She'll also be a guest on the Podnews Weekly
Review shortly as well.
Spotify's Chartable stops working on December 12th and if you're
using the Chartable prefix
in your RSS feed, your podcast may no longer be playable after
that date. In research earlier
this week, which we shared with affected podcast hosts, Podnews
found 31,700 shows, with that
prefix still in it. Most podcast hosts are working to help
customers. If you're a publisher
using Spotify's Megaphone, don't panic, you are completely
unaffected. Although it's
long been known that if podcasters change the enclosure URL,
like removing the Chartable
prefix, that triggers an automatic redownload on each listener's
Spotify app for every
affected episode. You can expect therefore significantly higher
Spotify download numbers
over the next few weeks as creators remove the Chartable prefix
and expect knock-on effects
with ad-serving too.
Five million new Canadian adults have become monthly podcast
listeners since 2019, says
new data from the Canadian podcast listener. 39% now listen to
podcasts monthly. That's
more than 13 million people.
Also in Canada, the government is spending millions of dollars
making podcasts that nobody
listens to, according to official government figures uncovered
by the Canadian Taxpayers
Foundation. As one example, the statistics podcast Eh Sayers,
first published in November
2021, has 26 episodes available and has achieved an average of 1,142
downloads per episode.
So far, though, that podcast has cost Canadian taxpayers nearly
US$700,000.
Ausha has launched Ausha Intelligence to all podcasters regardless
of where their show
is hosted. The AI tool produces SEO-optimized show notes
designed to boost discoverability.
Podcastthon, a charity event in March, has received
registrations for over 1,000 podcasts.
The event, which starts in exactly 100 days on March 15, will
feature more than 1,000
podcasts dedicating an episode to help the charity of their
choice. The initiative is
supported by Acast, OSHA, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. PodNews is
also a media partner.
A new thought paper has been published by WARC and Audacy
focusing on the audio investment
gap, the big difference between audio consumption in the US and
the share of marketing spend
it gets. Ashley Carman's newsletter Soundbite is to go behind a
paywall and will only be
available to Bloomberg subscribers or to those who buy the $11.99
a month tech newsletter
bundle. We've got a link for you to subscribe today.
Veritonic announced enhanced capabilities to analyze and
optimize the audio performance
of video podcasts and is there anyone home at TuneIn? In
February, the company temporarily
stopped the ability to submit new podcasts. It's now December
and the company still
says we're unable to update any podcast on our platform due to
us conducting some
construction to our podcast update form. When might it be fixed?
They don't know. Not
good enough. In People News, Jay Green is now EVP of Business
Strategy and Partnerships at Qcode. "I'm excited to be joining
such a creative team,"
he says, "to continue growing this medium of ours for content
partners and advertisers."
Chris Peterson has joined PodSpace as a senior advisor. PodSpace
is an audio hosting and
ad tech company in Europe. We link to an interview with Carl Frigio
from our sister publication
The Podcast Business Journal today. And in Podcast News, Served
with Andy Roddick
is to join Vox Media. Vox Media will assume sales, marketing and
distribution duties for
the show which publishes weekly on Tuesdays on podcast and video
platforms and will partner
with the Served team on expanding their live event business.
Since 2019, Andrew Michon and Cole Hirsch have set up their
folding table and microphones
for Podcast But Outside, interviewing strangers and celebrities
alike or for a guest fee of
$1. The show today moves to comedy podcast network Headgum which
has had quite the acquisition
spree recently. We also hear that Cole is to leave the show.
Today's new episode is
his last. Ever wondered if having a baby on your own
would leave you with enough brainpower to string a sentence
together? You today can
find out in me and my tiny human as solo mum by choice Rachel
Corbett shares the highs,
the lows and the "how the hell am I actually managing to do this?"
reality of solo parenting.
And the Oprah podcast is a new weekly podcast from Oprah Winfrey
this week with today's
foremost thought leaders, global newsmakers, best-selling
authors, visionaries and cultural
changemakers. The show is sponsored by Starbucks and kicks off
with Claire Keegan, the author
of small things like these. It'll be filmed in Starbucks cafes.
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. And that's the latest from our
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