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Wondercraft launched a new AI video studio that can, among other
things, make videos from your podcasts with animations and
images.
The tool allows you to select what kind of outcome you want,
whether it's a business video, a social promo or whatever,
and give it your podcast's audio or a prompt about what audio
you want.
You can even set an avatar of your hosts.
How do most podcast agencies show their clients that their work
was a success?
By talking about downloads.
According to a new report, State of Podcast Agences 2026 by Co-host
and Quill also shows that most podcast agencies are small,
with 76% operating with fewer than 10 employees and 92% use AI
in some part of their workflow.
The Castro Podcast app has launched listening stats.
The Castro's Dustin Black says you can see how much you listened
in any given day, week, month or year,
and you can drill down and see the exact episodes you were
listening to at an exact time.
Podscribe has added watch lists to offer email alerts when
meaningful changes occur,
when competing brands begin to advertise on new shows, for
example, or new advertisers appearing on a competitive show.
In the US last month, YouTube's share of all TV viewing dropped
a little to 12.7%,
and Netflix jumped up to third place with 9%, according to Nielsen's
latest data.
One of Australia's biggest podcasts, Life Uncut, has switched
from ARN's iHeart to competitor SCA's listener.
In October, the show achieved 400,000 listeners with iHeart,
and Podcast One has signed Wicked Awesome from hosts Shanna Mokla
and Claudia Jordan.
The Scottish Podcast Awards have announced the awards categories.
There is an international podcast category designed to
acknowledge the international listening habits of Scottish
podcast audiences.
And Microsoft has posted about the AI Podcast Studio.
It's a project to demonstrate the seamless integration of the
Microsoft Agent Framework,
local small language models, and Vibe Voice,
specifically designed for podcast-style conversational audio
to automate a complete tech podcast pipeline.
We link to the code today.
The company doesn't, though, post any audio.
And in podcast news, the latest two episodes of Search Engine
are a great example of a great guest that carries an entire show.
Alejandro Velasco is a Venezuelan historian,
and he takes us through the history of the country in an
engaging and fascinating way.
It's very much worth a listen.
The State of It USA is new from the Times of London today.
It's hosted by Katie Balls, the Washington editor of the Times
and Sunday Times,
and Gerry Baker, editor-at-large at the Wall Street Journal.
The Murdoch-owned podcast promises no fake news, no flag-waving,
and no Trump derangement syndrome, whatever that means.
Award-winning educational comedy podcast Well I Laughed returns
for a new season with a new look,
aiming to continue the show's mission to bring listeners moments
of joy
through smart and funny deep dives into surprising subjects.
And Mike's to Millions returns for a new season with a short
episode with Sam
talking about lessons from 2025 that he's aiming to apply to 2026.
Guests this season includes Stephanie Bichara, who's the host of
Broke Girl Therapy,
Jonathan Levitt, who's host of For the Long Run,
and it kicks off next week with Bumpers' Dan Meisner.
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