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Pod Bible, a printed magazine and website in the UK, is looking
for acquisition offers.
The magazine, which featured podcasts to listen to, was made
available inside the Sunday Times.
It also has a newsletter for podcast listeners.
The Lark M2S microphone was released at CES, an easily hidden
wireless microphone intended for those shooting video.
It can capture 30 hours of studio-level wireless audio.
Podpacer is a podcast planning tool to help you research and
plan your next episode.
Slobodan Manic, the founder, tells us that Podpacer learns from
your past episodes,
plus any YouTube videos, documents or webpages you provide,
and uses that knowledge to help you plan and prepare new
episodes more efficiently.
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Triton Digital's Sharon Taylor writes her shortlist of very
polite demands,
or goals maybe, for the podcast industry in 2025.
And one of her demands that we'll absolutely back her up with
is that Spotify, YouTube or Apple release useful industry data.
We've been asking these companies this for years
and have suggested some data points we know they have.
Weirdly, they never seem to read that bit of our email.
And all three companies also don't use IAB podcast measurement
guidelines either.
PRX will now distribute Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio
podcast.
PRX and their advertising sales partner SoundRise
will also now serve as Milk Street's official sales
representative for the podcast.
The show was with Acast.
PRX continues to distribute the radio show.
And Kast Media's bankruptcy rolls on.
Document 264 on January 2nd claims again that virtually every
creditor has consented to the settlement plan,
except an objection from Arcadian Vanguard, the company behind
Jim Cornette's podcasts.
Bankruptcy is expensive.
Document 277 from January 7th was a legal bill from Kast Media's
lawyers for the last six months
for more than $86,000.
But this bankruptcy will be more expensive yet
because Document 288, which came out on Wednesday,
is a further 341 pages of legal objections from former Kast
employees,
including 67 references to case law.
And thank you to the Compliance Podcast Network,
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And in podcast news, Taking Care of Your Music Business is a
brand new podcast
from the Mechanical Licensing Collective.
It's a US music collection agency.
The show features interviews with songwriters and music
executives,
offering valuable insights into navigating the business side of
the music industry.
The Trendcast is new from SiriusXM,
giving an in-depth look at the evolving podcast landscape
through the lens of the people driving the most change, the
creators.
The show reflects on the hottest podcast trends from 2024,
as showcased in SiriusXM Media's 2024 Podcast Trends Report.
And The Real Killer returns for a third season this week from iHeartMedia
and Air Media.
The new season will delve deep into a 1997 murder,
which quickly transforms into an in-depth and wide-ranging
investigation
that challenges everything listeners thought they knew about
criminal investigations.
And our mistake yesterday in this bit.
We said that George Santos had been a US senator.
He, of course, had been a member of Congress.
I'm a British man.
I live in Australia.
I, of course, know what the difference is.
Go on.
Ask me anything.
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