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Podcast Expo is taking place today at the Renaissance Orlando at
SeaWorld in Florida
with the full tracks starting today.
The Podcast Hall of Fame ceremony is held this evening as well,
welcoming 11 new people.
Audience Lift has released a brand new version of its audience
growth platform.
The company says it grows your podcast audience by advertising
your podcast trailer
on premium digital publishers such as CNN, Yahoo and Wall Street
Journal,
finding people interested in what your show is about.
Podcasting never stops and a podcast studio in Melbourne in
Australia is now open right around the clock.
It's called This is a Studio and it has two video-equipped
studios
and a mobile setup for conferences and exhibitions.
Audio, which launched a podcast app that strips the ads in
November 2023,
has announced a new share offering.
The documentation comes with full balance sheets for the company.
We learn that in the nine months ending September 30th, 2024,
its total operating expenses were 5.6 million.
It paid its chairman, CEO and CFO in total for the year 1.07
million.
And the company's total revenue during that time was... zero.
Just before Christmas, Marketplace Tech covered a look back at
20 years of podcasting.
We'll link to that today.
The Webby Awards has announced a session with Dan Taberski,
who was awarded Podcast of the Year by Apple Podcasts last month.
It's on January the 29th.
And the Podnews Weekly Review this week includes an interview
with Audioboom CEO, Stuart Last.
Stuart Last: The thing that I'm most proud of is the fact that we've made
more than $250 million for independent
podcast creators over the last seven years.
James Cridland: You can find the Pod News Weekly review wherever you get your
podcasts.
And in podcast news, if ever there was a week for the LA Times
to launch a climate podcast,
it's this.
Boiling Point is a new podcast by Times climate columnist Sammy
Roth
and will delve into the biggest climate stories shaping the
world.
It starts off, of course, with a look at the fires in Los
Angeles.
An outrage and optimism.
The climate podcast released a new season today
using the award-winning UK-based production company Persifonica
behind hit shows such as Political Currency and Miss Me
to help grow the success of the show.
Hosted by former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres
with political strategist Tom Rivett-Karnock
and business consultant Paul Dickinson,
the show aims to welcome a wider audience to the climate
conversation.
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