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Greg Glenday has been announced as the new CEO for Acast after
Ross Adams announced his resignation.
Adams will continue as a strategic advisor.
He'd been with Acast since 2014, moving from Spotify and Capital
Radio and had been CEO for eight years.
Glenday joined in August 2023 as part of a raft of U.S.
appointments.
He joined from Shazam, iHeartMedia, Lightbox and Undertone.
You can read an interview shortly after he joined Acast in our
sister publication of the Podcast Business Journal.
It's linked today from our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
Spotify's video podcast program isn't a big hit with podcast
networks, says Digiday, saying larger networks are wary.
However, creators seem keener with YMH Studios suggesting they're
earning five times the revenue from Spotify than YouTube and Rith
earning more than double.
Meanwhile, the Times of London reveals that Spotify has a porn
problem after stumbling upon quotes everything from lascivious
critiques of skin flicks to audio erotica and reels of ASMR
sounds.
And Daniel Ek's sales of Spotify shares recently...
Well, he's used that money to invest in Helsing, an AI-driven
military drone company.
I'm sure people will criticise it and that's OK, Ek told the
Financial Times.
Among other clients, the company is making drones for Ukraine.
Almost one in five of us eat to our favourite podcast or music.
According to data from YouGov, 18% listen to music or podcasts
while eating lunch, 16% over dinner, and half of us eat lunch
alone.
iHeart are running AI-translated versions of 10 of its popular
podcasts, says Digiday.
The company is using SpeechLab.
The Midas Touch podcast has five million subscribers, it says.
Although we'd love to know how they know, because our article on
Podcast Stats will tell you total subscribers isn't a number
visible to podcasters.
You can see total followers in Apple Podcast Connect and Spotify
for creators, but that's just for those platforms.
So perhaps they're even bigger.
Business Insider interviewed three podcast creators about their
use of Patreon.
We learned that Therapy for Black Girls earns about $2,000.
Wonder is Red-Handed earns $59,000 a month.
And The Yard from the Roost earns around $242,000 a month.
Podnews is on Patreon at podnews.net slash Patreon.
Just saying.
Radiotopia has announced a new season of Radiotopia Presents.
This time round, it's Doing the Whiz, a new documentary series
going behind the scenes of a high school musical that changed
everything for a group of teens in the early 2000s.
As mentioned in May, the popular audio show 20,000 Hertz is
coming to YouTube, but not as a video version of the podcast,
but a separate show entirely.
It kicks off with a sound team tour of the Jeopardy studio on
Dallas Taylor's YouTube channel at 8 a.m. Eastern today.
And the Financial Times says that if your next department doesn't
come with a podcasting studio, you're straight up irrelevant,
fam.
It's a Monday, so time for some tech stuff.
And Greg Wasserman has talked about the tech stack philosophy at
rss.com.
Our job is to integrate well with the best in-class tools you're
already using, he says.
We link to that today.
And Franco Solerio, the developer of the Castomatic app, joins
Adam Curry and Dave Jones in the Podcasting 2.0 podcast this
week.
In People News, Jen Poyant has been promoted to Deputy Director
for Audio at the New York Times.
And in Podcast News, Lemonada Media's Confessions of a Female
Founder with Megan has reached the end of the first season and
has paused.
I need to focus on my business, she's reported to have said.
Podscribe estimates the show has around 200,000 listeners a
month.
If the world feels a bit heavy right now, suffer less with Tim
Tamashiro, a part-time monk, is a calm, practical podcast about
how to make one gentle shift at a time to train your mind to
find peace in everyday life.
Tamashiro is a former Buddhist monk and a best-selling author.
And in How to Change the World, the History of Innovation, they've
set out to chronologically document the biggest inventions of
history, one leap at a time.
It'll also tell the stories of the greatest innovators from
history and understand their mental models, mindsets and habits
with a cast.
It's hosted by Sam Webster Harris.
And this podcast is sponsored by Podscribe.
Now, Podscribe have recently launched their June 2025 industry
rankings.
In there, you can see the top podcasts, the top publishers and
the top advertisers in the industry's ultimate ranker.
You can explore the full rankings to spot the leaders and the
biggest movers.
You'll find that linked from our show notes.
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