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Spotify has lost one of its big shows.
What Now with Trevor Noah will become a SiriusXM podcast from
July 1st.
The show announced two years ago was the first from Spotify not
to be an exclusive
and heralded a new strategy for all the company's podcasts.
Noah's $4 million deal was highlighted as a more equitable deal
for Spotify
than previous content deals for the company.
What Now this week is an interview with Jon Stewart.
The winners of the 2025 Women Podcasters Awards were announced.
You can watch a slickly edited video of the whole event.
I'm on there about seven minutes in and the event returns in
November.
Jar Audio has named Libby Lybird's Motherhood as the winner of
its 2025
Emerging Women in Podcasting Pilot Competition.
The UK-based writer and performer takes a hard look at the
stigma surrounding single mothers.
Proud single mum with a story to tell?
What's not to like?
Said Jar Audio's chief creative officer, Jen Moss.
Podscribe released its June 2025 industry ranker.
It says Crime Junkie is the number one show, reaching 8.3
million people.
Joe Rogan's at number five.
Spotify is the number one publisher, with almost twice the
audience of iHeartMedia's podcasts.
And the top advertiser is BetterHelp.
Quarter 125 saw a record high amount of household spending on
audio media in Sweden,
says Nordic analysts' media vision.
The average monthly spend on music, audiobooks and podcasts
reached 170 sec, which is $18 per household,
a figure that's grown 20% year on year.
And the Pew Research Centre has released an interactive tool
that examines trust and distrust,
and use of 30 major news sources.
The most trusted news brand in the US is the BBC, with PBS and NPR
in the top four.
Among the major news sources are the Tucker Carlson Network, the
Daily Wire and the Joe Rogan Experience.
I think it's a really exciting space that is underdeveloped
right now.
In the Pod News Weekly review this week, we learn all about new
research into kids' podcasting,
with Molly Bloom from Brains On telling us about a new study
that focuses on how families listen to kids' podcasts in the car
and the conversations that follow.
I also talk about Spotify's embrace of podcasting 2.0 with Sam
Sethi and Apple's recent announcements.
Kids' bedtime story and meditation podcast Koala Moon has just
passed 50 million lifetime listens.
The show offers calming bedtime stories and meditations for kids
and now serves over 200,000 regular listeners.
And what do TV listings have to do with the arc of American
history?
Quite a lot, it turns out, from heart-hitting journalism that
exposed fake news
to billion-dollar business deals to a photo-manipulation scandal
that made Oprah very angry.
Part-time genius uncovers the many ways that the little magazine
of TV Guide has made a big impact on Americans' lives.
And this podcast is sponsored by PodScribe.
Just launched is their Quarter 2 2025 PodScribe Performance Benchmarks
Report.
And for the first time ever, you can see international
benchmarks in there and the top performing audience segments.
It's a free download.
You can download it today.
There's a link in the show notes.
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