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 From our free daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with

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 Lean and Loaf.

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 We start with an exclusive today.

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 Podnews has investigated the International Podcast Awards,

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 a new awards ceremony launched last year in Arizona

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 and discovered a website with misleading images, made-up winners

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 and a unique business model.

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 As we report today, it's an award that looks great, but looks

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 aren't everything.

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 You'll find it linked from our show notes and our newsletter at

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 podnews.net.

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 The Ambie Awards nominations were announced yesterday.

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 Winners in 32 categories will be selected by the full voting

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 membership of the Podcast Academy.

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 There are 227 nominees.

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 The ceremony will take place as part of On Air Fest in Brooklyn

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 on February the 23rd.

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 The Golden Globes winner, Amy Poehler's Good Hang, is not among

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 the nominees.

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 Indeed, Spotify is only nominated once for its co-production

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 with the Wall Street Journal.

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 Spotify released a new set of data in a piece by Spotify product

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 director Francis McNamara.

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 The total number of followed shows has doubled in the past three

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 years on Spotify,

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 with more than 34 million shows discovered every week by users.

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 93% of podcast listeners on Spotify say they expect Spotify to

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 help them find their next favourite show.

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 The company also says that auto-generated chapters are rolling

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 out to more shows.

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 Apple Podcasts recently launched the feature for every single

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 eligible show in the Apple Podcasts directory.

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 Triton Digital announced the release of its US Podcast Ranker

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 for December 2025.

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 At the time of writing, however, the Ranker isn't yet available.

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 Transistor has added a podcast show notes template to give

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 consistent headers, footers and other information in episode

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 notes.

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 Vox Topica's CEO, Richard Fowell, has written a piece arguing

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 that podcasts are one of the most effective channels for public

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 policy education

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 and given three case studies.

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 And ACAST has worked with Barometer to launch pre-bid targeting

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 at the episode level for the first time.

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 It gives brands automated granular control over where their ads

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 appear before a buy is made.

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 And in podcast news, the History of World War II podcast looks

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 at the first bridge too far this week.

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 One bridge down, one to go for Monty's 8th Army.

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 But friendly fire will disrupt Operation Fustian before it

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 starts, leaving the British paratroopers trapped by Axis forces.

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 It's with Airwave and we thank them for their support.

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 Podcast Nation launches How We Got Away With Murder, a new re-watch

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 podcast hosted by a couple of people from the show.

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 Launching today, you'll re-watch the series with Jack and Matt

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 as they break down iconic moments,

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 share behind-the-scenes stories and welcome guests like the show's

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 creator.

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 And Re-Collections Parks Canada's Narrative History and Archaeology

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 podcast is back for a second season.

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 And this week, you'll travel to Fort Lennox, a military stronghold

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 on an island in Quebec.

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 And that's the latest from our newsletter.

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