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TuneIn appears to have tuned away from podcasts.
After three sets of layoffs,
which have not been reported until today,
the company hasn't let creators add new podcasts
for the last 10 months.
It's also not communicating with content creators.
We've a full article for you linked from our show notes
and our newsletter at podnews.net today.
Podscribe has launched a new real-time podcast ranker.
It measures YouTube as well as podcasts
and offers demographic data, rising shows,
so you can spot shows that are going viral,
and works using both Podscribe's existing prefixes
and campaign pixels.
It's available to Podscribe clients.
The company will also release monthly emails
with ranker data.
On Air Fest has published more speakers
for its Brooklyn event in mid-February.
Speakers include Taylor Lorenz, Dan Taberski,
and Ashley Carman.
The IAB has published creative best practices in podcasting
with a set of examples of host reads,
pre-rolls, branded segments, and others.
Edison Research published
its Latino Podcast Listener Report 2024.
In the last four years,
the number of Latinos who are monthly podcast listeners
has increased by 72%.
And for the first time,
Latino podcast listening is 50% women, 50% men.
Mumbler has looked at the top 100 podcasts in Spain,
publish cadence, durations, and even cover art color.
The average duration, in case you're wondering,
is 57.9 minutes per episode.
But having said that,
a quarter of all top shows are less than half an hour.
Libsyn has published the results of its share tender offer.
The company purchased six million shares
for a total of $8.6 million.
That's an apparent price of around $1.43.
The company has around 30 million shares.
And Tommy Walters from Acast
has published five trends from podcasting in 2024.
One of those, Tommy bravely suggests,
is podcasting takes center stage
in politics and day-to-day life.
And in podcast news, Practical
Stoicism has been acquired by Evergreen Podcasts.
The podcast joined the Evergreen Podcasts late this January.
Now the show is owned by Evergreen
and Tanner Campbell will be employed by them
to host and produce the podcast.
Say What You Mean with Aida Rodriguez
has joined the fwd Network.
The show explores the power of words
and the moments when people wish they had spoken up.
The You Better, You Bet Podcast and Live Show
has been added to the FAST channel of NBC Sports.
It's the latest podcast making its way to FAST channels.
It's now available on Peacock
and all major fast channel platforms.
Conservation Calls has released a special episode today
celebrating 15 years of species conservation
and hearing from many recipients
of the NBC Species Conservation Fund.
And, Before We Go, we'll return for a second season
later in 2025,
it's been announced.
This podcast is sponsored by CBC.
From CBC, Understood goes deep on the current events,
people and cultural moments shaping society.
Seasons span four episodes.
They're hosted by journalists
with an existing expertise on the story
and CBC is now accepting pitches for seasons of the show.
If you'd like to pitch or just learn more,
you can find the link in our show notes.
And that's the latest from our newsletter.
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