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Podcast company Acast has purchased New York-based creative
podcast studio Wonder Media Network
for a total value of $7.8m. The six-year-old Wonder Media
Network makes its own original
podcasts and branded podcasts and digital content for a number
of large companies. WMN's
team will combine with Acast's existing creatives to form a new
division called Acast
Creative Studios.
Podtrac published its US Rankers for November 2024. All of the
top global networks were
down on global downloads, streams and views in November over
October, they say. Potentially
connected to the presidential election results, the only changes
in the top 21 publishers
are The Daily Wire, up from number 10 to number 9 and the Fox
Audio Network, up from number 13 to number 12.
Also the Tucker Carlson Show is a new entry in the most popular
podcasts at number six.
Those rankers measure participating publishers only.
The New Zealand Podcast Awards released their winners last week.
Our page links to the gold
winners so you can listen for yourself.
Wondery released its 2024 Wondery podcast playback in the Wondery
app and Headliner
has also posted their wrapped 2024. In this case it's a blog
post highlighting the year
in podcasting.
We've updated our alternatives to Chartable guide. Rephonic no
longer requires sign up
to OP3 to claim your podcast. Podgagement has launched a
historical charts service and
we've also added details of services from CoHost.
And we've added many more country podcast top 10s from Spotify
2024 wrapped, including
Sweden, Italy where one podcaster has two shows in the top 10,
Germany where the number
one podcast is hosted on Soundcloud, Spain, New Zealand and
Mexico. More later, we think.
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And in people news, Rockie Thomas has been appointed Chief Strategy
Officer at SoundStack. She
was previously the company's chief revenue officer. "I'm
thrilled to expand my experience
into product and strategy lanes," she said.
And Adam Shepherd, formerly editor of PodPod and the British
Podcast Awards, is leaving
to be editor of Conference and Incentive Travel, a thrilling
publication aimed at the corporate
events planning sector. "I'll miss the vibrant enthusiasm and
passion of the podcast
community," he says. It leaves one less place to read news and
information about podcasting,
which sounds good for us but is increasingly not good for the
industry.
And in podcast news, Podcast Perspectives this week covers all
things podcast attribution
including how the technology actually works, why a brand would
want to utilise it, which
tools podcasters can and should use in the wake of chartables
sunsetting and some real-world
examples of how these types of tools changed the entire podcast
ecosystem.
The new Goalhanger podcast "The Rest is Classified" has
achieved 200,000 downloads
in its first week, the company says. It topped the charts in the
UK and Australia while also
breaking into the top five in New Zealand and Ireland. The show
offers unparalleled
insights into the world of intelligence and security.
Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce released its first episode. It
includes an interview with
actor Kaitlin Olson and we hear how she's dealing with being
pregnant. It's also on
YouTube in video, not in video on Spotify, and we are required
to tell you that it's
a Wave Sports + Entertainment original. So we have.
And Intoxicating History is new this week, hosted by author
Henry Jeffries and Tom Parker-Bowles
who's described in the press release as critic, writer and son
of the queen. Oooh, get you. The show explores
the sometimes amusing, often dramatic but always intoxicating
stories behind the drinks
that we know and love. Today the first episode is all about port.
It's from TWS Creative.
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