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JAR Audio has announced the third edition of the Emerging Women
in Podcasting competition.
The winner gets a professionally produced audio podcast pilot
episode with full support from JAR's talented team.
The winner last year was Half Betty.
The Daily Wire has announced a new advertising partnership with
Perplexity, an AI-driven answer engine.
Ben Shapiro will use the tool to get real-time context and facts
about issues he's covering.
In Mumbai, India's biggest podcasting conclave and awards, Podmasters
2025, ends early bird entries later today.
You've still eight hours left, though.
Public voting starts on Friday.
The awards event is later this year.
In the UK, a recent government consultation into the app stores
of Apple and Google
has uncovered some interesting submissions from UK media.
According to my personal blog, the BBC claims that because its
apps are free and don't earn Apple any money,
they get less promotion in the app store.
And some claim similar for podcasts without Apple premium
subscriptions, too.
Veritonic has launched Audience Insights, a tool built to help
podcasters get cost-effective demographic data on their
listeners.
It allows advertisers to understand audiences at a deeper level,
the company says.
Earbuds this week looks at podcasts for Women's History Month
and audio from selected sessions from South by Southwest
to being posted online on the South by Southwest website with
free access.
We link to one.
More added soon, we're told.
We also link to an RSS feed of the audio, too.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff.
And what podcast apps are listeners using?
Well, we link to a page on our sister publication, Podcast
Business Journal today,
which shows share of downloads by podcast app for all shows in
OP3 for the past 30 days.
That's at least 16 million downloads.
It now has a fancy pie chart and it's being updated daily.
All last week, we've been trying to get to the bottom of why our
daily podcast suddenly has 20 times the number of downloads.
As of now, we're seeing 35,000 downloads per episode, which is
great, but also not so great
because they look automated and suspicious.
I've dived into the data to try to find out what's up, but
whatever it is, it's not obvious.
If you think you know, I'd love to hear from you.
editor@podnews.net is my address.
Also, while we talk about automated requests, Podnews' search
tool was being battered by repeated automated searches
in multiple languages from Microsoft IPs last week.
Since February the 28th, we've seen more than 88,000 searches,
but only 3,100 were from human beings.
The top search, in case you wondered, was made 448 times.
Mr. Prashant Gautam, police.
Apparently, he's deputy chief constable in Delhi.
The top search made by human beings, though.
Acast.
Searched 14 times.
And in podcast news, Matt and Shane's secret podcast has made
the leap to Spotify video.
The show will now post weekly video episodes on Spotify with a
no-holds-barred take on culture with relatable, witty
conversations featuring an all-star comedy lineup.
It was with Audioboom.
It's now hosted with Megaphone.
How We Made Your Mother launches today.
The beloved sitcom How I Met Your Mother is finally getting the
re-watch podcast it deserves.
As Josh Radner, who played Ted Mosby for nine seasons on the
show, teams up with series co-creator Craig Thomas for a behind-the-scenes
deep dive into the making of it.
How We Made Your Mother invites fan voices into every episode
alongside special guests from the How We Made Your Mother
universe.
Net-A-Porter's Incredible Women podcast returns for a ninth
season with a stellar lineup of incredible women whose spirit
and drive sets them apart.
In the In Detail feed, a new series called The Toxic Waste Scandal
has just started.
It's the true story of a Netflix drama, Toxic Town, covering
industrial waste in the British town of Corby, its effects on
the population and their long fight for justice.
The host, George Taylor, has a personal connection to the story,
having been born with a deformed thumb and forefinger as a
result of the toxic waste.
And Ocean's Life Underwater from Greenpeace starts a new season
today with Crowd Network.
The show covers stories of the wonders of the ocean, from
beautiful coral reefs and stunning species like dolphins and
turtles, to threats like deep sea diving.
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