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Kids and family podcast producer Pinna has presented a pristine and playful purple pictorial pattern: a fancy new logo and redesign.

Kids podcast company Pinna has done a deal with the Australian ABC to include three new kids shows into its library.

Thank you to Andy Bowers who became a personal supporter this week. Co-founder of Spooler, and previous co-founder of Megaphone, founder of Slate Podcasts and Pinna, we’re proud of his support. Thank you! You can become like Andy here.

Kids show Opal Watson: Private Eye returns for a new season this week. The show is by Pinna, a division of Realm, and follows the adventures of 11-year-old Opal, who runs a thriving mystery-solving business.

Kids and family audio producer Pinna has released a number of its popular shows as free podcasts, just in time for the school holidays.

Scripted podcast company Realm has acquired kids production company Pinna and podcast producer Lipstick & Vinyl. Terms were not disclosed. The company will also represent shows from Rebel Girls and GoKidGo.

Kids publisher Pinna has launched what it calls "the first voice activated interactive podcast".

More people are leaving Gimlet: and this time it's Reply All hosts Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi. It's unclear if the show will continue. "This iteration of Reply All will be ending in late June", the company tweeted. PJ Vogt and Sruthi Pinnamaneni left in Feb 2021 after allegations were made against them.

Macmillan Children's Publishing Group has announced a partnership with kids podcast company Pinna to adapt their podcasts into books. They'll be launched in early 2023.

In US company financial results: Cumulus Media's CEO Mary Berner commented that their podcasting business is profitable, but margins are low - and hinted at further acquisitions in podcasting ... The New York Times said their "audio storytelling" now reaches 20 million listeners a month ... Graham Holdings own Slate, City Cast, and Pinna and say these businesses all saw revenue increases but all made losses.

Samiah Adams has launched House of Howard, a company specialising in production project management and operations consulting. She had worked at Gilded Audio and Pinna.

PJ Vogt and Sruthi Pinnamaneni have left Gimlet Media's Reply All. Eric Eddings, former host of Gimlet’s The Nod podcast, accused the two of working against efforts to diversify Gimlet's staff and content. Vogt has apologised, saying he had behaved "like a baby and a jerk"; Pinnamaneni said "I feel great regret". Gimlet Managing Director Lydia Polgreen said, in a staff email, "From the moment I arrived at Gimlet, it was clear that our culture needed work, and that there were big things that needed to change to make this a better, more equitable place".

Podcast ad-tech host Megaphone is still losing money but revenues increased significantly in the first nine months of 2020. Graham Holdings Company also owns Slate, Foreign Policy, and kids podcast publisher Pinna; all these companies lost money, though Pinna's revenue is also increasing.

Maggie McGuire, the CEO of Pinna, an ad-free children's audio network, talks to Podcast Movement. They advertise themselves, though: "We’re running advertising across audio networks including Spotify, Pandora, and NPR, and across podcast networks like Megaphone and Midroll."

Sruthi Pinnamaneni of Gimlet's Reply All gives advice on a useful framework for producing great-sounding podcast stories.

HotPod focuses on Pinna, a kids podcaster, previously owned by Panoply, which is now being spun out as an independent company.

From Panoply, Pinna has audio stories and podcasts for kids aged 4-12 (and their adults). Good to see this audience being catered-for.

A very long piece about kids podcasts in the New York Times.