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- Sep 5: Pushkin Industries unveiled their brand new slate for Fall 2025. We’re promised a new limited series from Malcolm Gladwell, a new season of Fiasco, and the return of Jonathan Goldstein’s Heavyweight.
- Sep 3: The team behind the wildly popular Global News Podcast from the BBC have announced a new Asia-focused news show. The podcast, which will also be available in video on YouTube, will be called Asia Specific, and is slated to start within the next few months, according to the BBC’s Siobhán Leahy who announced the new podcast at Podcast Day Asia in Jakarta earlier today. Co-presented by Mariko Oi, it’ll be produced in the BBC’s Singapore bureau.
- Sep 2: The top reasons people leave a podcast are that “it started with too much meaningless chat”, or that “it was just boring”, according to The Podcast Study: Growth, a survey of 1,200 podcast listeners first presented at Podcast Movement last month. The data suggests that the first 60 seconds are critical to get right to ensure your listeners stay with you. Today, The Podcast Study: Growth is available, in full, as a free download for Podnews readers.
- Sep 1: Alastair Campbell, former UK government communications and strategy director and now host of The Rest Is Politics, found it “absolutely surreal” to be performing a podcast on stage at a sell-out O2 Arena. “We had something like 15,000 people there,” he said. “It was very, very odd.”
- Aug 29: When WTF with Marc Maron goes away, what will you have to remember the show by? How about the official graphic novel? The book will be launched on Sep 4 on Kickstarter: it’s already fully funded.
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