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Spotify has launched Creator Milestone Awards,
which will be given to podcasts that reach particular streaming
levels on Spotify.
It's the first time Spotify has publicly revealed streaming
numbers
for podcasters across the platform.
And like YouTube, award recipients will be hand-delivered a
physical Spotify plaque.
If you're gold, that means 500 million or more lifetime streams,
you'll be Joe Rogan, Crime Junkie, Armchair Expert, and Last
Podcast on the Left.
But also, in gold, two German podcasts,
and one of those, Gemischtes Hack, only has 285 episodes.
So each episode has been played an average of 1.7 million times
just on Spotify.
Even more impressive, there are only about 120 million native
German speakers.
Anyway, we've the full list, including silver and bronze,
all linked from our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
Sirius XM has pulled its video versions of Alex Cooper's Call
Her Daddy from Spotify,
along with other Unwell Network shows.
The shows will be viewable on YouTube and the Sirius XM app,
Cooper posted on Instagram, saying that you can watch on YouTube
for free.
How do you make podcast advertising work better?
Well, don't make the ads dull and boring.
Ads that have emotion or are otherwise interesting
can work more than six times better than boring ones,
according to a set of research compiled by Westwood One's Pierre
Bouvard.
There's a PDF, a video, and a white paper to download.
PodOps has added AI Blog, a new feature to turn audio into
written articles,
and McDonald's fries.
They're less tasty than they used to be, and that's a scientific
fact.
Los Angeles only has 14 public bathrooms.
These are top podcast fun facts of 2024, as compiled by earbuds.
Facts that people learnt from podcasts.
One fact, apparently, is to have a teaspoon of apple cider
vinegar
diluted in a glass of water before every meal,
which is supposed to prevent blood glucose spikes,
but probably only works because it makes you feel as rough as a
dog.
Anyway, top podcast fun facts of 2024 is linked today
from our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
In People News, Jonathan Pascoe has joined UK production company
Listen
as executive producer.
He joins from MTV and Comedy Central
and has also worked at BBC Radio 2 and UK station Heart.
And The Podglomerate has hired Peri Gross
as manager of marketing and audience development.
She joins from Sirius XM.
And in podcast news...
It's a tale of murder, skullduggery and international intrigue.
CBC's Sea of Lies from Uncover is new this week
and has taken more than a year to produce.
It's about a Canadian con artist who committed most of his
crimes in the UK
over a five-year period.
It's a tale of murder, stolen identities, fine art,
a diaper stuffed with gold bars,
and a crime solved by a Rolex watch.
From rural Canada to coastal England,
he lied and deceived at every turn.
It's out this week.
Ideal for Gen Z and young millennials,
Heart to Hustle launched earlier this month,
highlighting the journeys of people who've transformed their
side hustles
and creative passions into fulfilling careers.
Today's guest is Marcus Collins.
Audioboom has renewed its partnership with a 10-year-old podcast,
No Such Thing as a Fish.
The Rest is History
is to be made into a TV show by Wheelhouse, it's been
announced.
Kaushal Niroula and Danny Garcia drained their victims' bank
accounts
and upended their lives.
The two men masqueraded as real estate moguls,
art dealers, bankers and even royalty.
As their web of manipulation crossed academia, immigration and
finance,
they scammed anyone they could, including each other,
until they committed the one crime they couldn't con their way
out of,
murder.
True Crime News presents American Hustlers
is new this week with Odyssey and Telepictures.
And El Chapo escaped after his associates dug a tunnel into his
jail cell.
American bank robber John Dillinger escaped twice.
Once with a fake pistol carved out of wood,
and once while he managed to create a diversion.
These are some of the greatest escapes in history.
And Greatest Escapes is new today from iHeart Podcasts and Film
Nation Entertainment.
It's hosted by Arturo Castro.
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