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Since it launched, Acast has paid more than $44.9 million to
creators in Australia and New Zealand, the company has revealed.
That's $28.6 million US dollars. It recently signed big hitters
Casefile True Crime and Toni and Ryan.
Podscribe will reveal the Quarter 4 2024 performance benchmark
reports in a webinar tomorrow.
Podscribe attendees will get the new data from Podscribe a week
early before everybody else.
It's free to sign up at Podscribe's website.
Yes, this time yesterday we covered the story but got the name
of the company wrong.
Not for the first time. I'm an idiot.
Magellan AI will also run a webinar on Thursday with details
from that company's benchmark reports.
Links to both in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
The BBC is to close BBC Sounds, its music, radio and podcasts
app for international users.
BBC Podcasts, along with two radio stations, BBC World Service
and BBC Radio 4, are now available on the BBC.com international
website.
And the BBC's app, access to the BBC's other domestic radio
stations will no longer be possible outside the UK.
Two defamation lawsuits have been served after a podcast
appearance by the Mayor of London.
Not that London though. London and Kentucky.
iHeart is to launch a regional podcasting hub in Qatar.
It made the announcement at Web Summit Qatar.
Or is it Qatar? I never know.
Goalhanger has launched a new live event.
It's first without a podcast.
The rest is assassinations.
We'll feature Dominic Sandbrook and Anthony Scaramucci at the
end of March in London's Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.
Tickets are available now.
Transistor has posted a list of 23 podcast apps that have closed.
Don't launch a social podcast player is one thing we can learn
from that.
Ziff Davis' IGN Entertainment has launched Geek Media, a new
podcast network.
It'll be represented by Realm.
And the Mercury Podcast Network is partnering with programmatic
audio tool Soundcast.
And in podcast news today, Connected is a weekly panel
discussion on Apple and the impact of technology in our lives.
With each co-host having a unique background and accent, Connected
provides a perspective that no other show can.
They use Memberful and we're grateful for their support this
month.
The Podnews Weekly Review is named as one of Hindenburg founder
Nick Dunkerley's top 10 shows this week.
In his Desert Island shows, we're alongside Radiolab and S-Town.
And David Tennant does a podcast with returns for a new star-studded
season today.
Guests will include Jameela Jameel, Russell T. Davis and Ben
Schwartz.
We're told to expect honest chats, surprising revelations and
Tennant's silky Scottish tones.
It's a Sony Music Entertainment and no mystery production.
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