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The True Crime Awards took place last night, including nine
podcast awards.
The winner of Podcast of the Year went to Kill List from Wondery
and Novel.
We've a list of all the podcast winners linked from our show
notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
PodTrack published its top podcasts, publishers and networks for
May.
All of the top global networks saw lower consumption month on
month.
A new AI audio briefing app called Hux is brand new today.
It'll connect to your email, your calendar and other personal
feeds to give you an audio update.
Business Insider reports that it's from some of the original
Google Notebook LM team.
There have been layoffs in the industry this week.
Spotify's podcast division has made 15 layoffs, including staff
at The Ringer.
The cuts are apparently the result of a focus away from audio
and towards video.
Spotify declined to comment.
American public media APM also made 15 layoffs.
It plans to sell its collection of kids podcasts, the Brains On
Universe.
An interesting development is that APM offered the production
teams for the shows and a support person
the option to stay on for two weeks to thoughtfully inform the
audience of the change.
And Boston-based public broadcaster GBH has made 45 layoffs
across multiple departments.
The BBC has quietly closed the Today podcast.
The weekly podcast was from the biggest radio news program in
the UK, with 5.7 million listeners on BBC Radio 4.
But in spite of heavy promotion, the podcast has never broken
through.
It's to be replaced with a new show from co-presenter Amal Rajan
called Radical.
US Airline United has announced a collaboration with Spotify to
offer a collection of Spotify's video and audio podcasts,
audio books and specially curated versions of Spotify's most
popular playlists on the in-flight entertainment screens.
It's the first time that Spotify's video podcasts have made it
to an in-flight entertainment system.
The audio category on United's planes will be replaced with the
Spotify category.
Meanwhile at Spotify, Chief Public Affairs Officer Dusty Jenkins
has sold a total of $5.1 million of Spotify shares in the last
three months.
And Spotify Board Director Mona Sutphen has also sold $3.3
million.
The Spotify Podcast Awards to place in Mexico, the top of the
top podcast, was Evuk's hosted comedy podcast, La Cotoriza.
Working with BBC Studios, OSHA says it helped optimise the
podcast search optimisation strategy for the infinite monkey
cage.
The company has published a case study.
Jar Audio has revealed the finalists for its 2025 Emerging Women
in Podcasting pilot competition,
spotlighting bold new voices in audio.
The winner will be announced next week.
Descript released a new set of features, including improved
filler word removal.
The company also notes that it's moving away from using version
numbers in its software.
Joe Rogan's ATM pin code starts with a 1.
We'll link to more details on that today.
And on this National Donut Day, John Wardock compares podcasts
to donuts.
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And in podcast news, in the Pod News Weekly Review this week,
Sam Sethi is on holiday.
So, John McDermott from Calaroga Shark Media is our guest host.
We talk about AI voices.
And hear from Zach Justice of The Dropouts about how his show
uses Patreon.
And Camp Shame is new from Acast's Wonder Media Network and iHeart
this week.
It's an 8-episode audio series that delves into the story of a
notorious fat camp.
One family's greed and the heavy price of shame.
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