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On Air Fest has revealed its 2025 schedule,
which it calls the most expansive line-up yet.
The event is between February the 19th and 21st
in and around Brooklyn in New York,
and it'll include more than 80 performances,
podcast tapings, panel conversations and workshops.
Among the third wave of featured talent announced today
is Anderson Cooper, Jameel Hill and Anna Martin.
There's also an invite-only podcast business summit
with Bloomberg's Ashley Carman.
It'll be the event's eighth year.
Podcast monetization company Audioboom
published a 2024 trading update.
In 2024, the company beat analyst forecasts
to show an EBITDA profit of $3.4 million.
Total revenue for the year was up by 13%,
to $73.4 million.
The company signed new content partnerships
and renewed existing ones,
but also managed to reduce the minimum guarantee obligations
by more than $3 million.
The company's CEO, Stuart Last,
will join us in the Podnews Weekly Review on Friday.
For the first time, the Australian Podcast Ranker has a clear
uncontested number one.
ARN's iHeart is number one for podcasting in podcast publishers
and in sales representation.
It comes as the BBC, represented by ARN's iHeart,
joins the Australian podcast ranker for the first time.
The BBC is the 10th biggest participating publisher with 3.3
million downloads,
and that ranker is calculated using monthly listeners.
If you were to calculate it using monthly downloads,
the number one publisher remains the ABC,
whose podcasts are commercial-free in the country.
Radio and podcast directory service TuneIn
has apparently made another 25 layoffs this week.
Earlier this month, TuneIn erroneously removed a number of radio
stations in the UK.
And as Podnews covered in December,
the company hasn't accepted new podcasts for almost 12 months,
after multiple rounds of layoffs.
Along with the TuneIn app,
companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, and many auto
manufacturers
rely on TuneIn's directory.
And is video podcasting just making podcasting even harder for
women?
Neal Veglio returns to our story from January the 1st
about the gender bias in video podcasting.
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In People News, Kate Lindsay has been announced as a new host
for Slate's ICYMI.
The author of the embedded newsletter, she joins co-host Candice
Lim.
And in podcast news, all 50 states of the USA produce wine,
and Wine Across America, which launches today,
is dedicated to educating wine lovers about the amazing wines
being produced across the country.
Featuring engaging interviews with winery owners,
winemakers, and wine industry experts.
It's hosted by Alan Craft and Sandra Gibord of BIN113.
And the first two states are Virginia and Maryland.
Bad news though, we've checked,
The Boston Globe's love letters is back for a new season.
This season focuses on the possibility of change.
Host and long-time Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein
will attempt to answer the complicated questions,
Can people really change?
And if so, how?
And the Louis Theroux podcast returned for a new season
yesterday.
Louis kicks off Series 4 with a wide-ranging conversation with
screen legend Willem Dafoe.
Other upcoming guests that I've heard of include Jamie Oliver
and that bloke from Hot Ones,
you know, Sean Evans, the guy normally asking the spicy
questions himself.
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