Acast open studios in London

• Acast has opened its London studios, in the heart of London’s Old Street. The space includes an Amazon Music branded studio, free to emerging and brand-new creators; and has four multimedia studios. Acast podcasters can use the studios for free from early next year.

• As Chartable prepares to close, Podgagement has launched a global charts and ranking service. The tool monitors nearly 34,000 charts across the world.

• Podcasts “are here to stay”, according to a report by BVDW on the German Podcast Landscape. “In addition to data on podcast usage, there is also an overview of standards, technologies, and guidelines for podcast advertising, as well as tips for media planning and campaign booking.” Du musst Deutsch sprechen, um es zu lesen, natürlich.

• Libsyn was suspended from the stock market in April 2022 after the company had failed to file financial reports. Now, Libsyn has confirmed that it does not plan to re-list, and is offering to buy back its shares at a price of $1.60, or less, per share. When suspended, the company’s shares were worth $3.75.

• How does your podcast rank for a specific word in US podcast searches? A new tool, Podcast Rank Report, has been launched by Scott Wyden Kivowitz, which runs the test for your podcast SEO. It’s $1 a go.

• Amplifi Media’s Stephen Goldstein looks back at the ups and downs of audio in 2024.

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• The Podglomerate sits down with The Webby Awards tomorrow at 1pm EST for a virtual session called Podcast Marketing 101 by The Webby Awards. Joni Deutsch will chat with Nick Borenstein about the best tactics for podcast growth and answer audience questions about what’s in the “secret sauce” for successful podcasts.

Podcast News - with Becoming You

Wild Card with Rachel Martin interviewed Ira Glass earlier this year at Podcast Movement in Washington DC, and that interview is in the Wild Card podcast feed this week. He doesn’t think he’s leaving a legacy with This American Life. He says: “I’m making a show for people who hear it now and when it’s done and we don’t make it anymore, it’s perfectly fine for it to vanish into the mists of time like everything will. And it’s fine if that happens very quickly.”

From Australia, the ABC’s If You’re Listening is a good listen: and also, a good watch. The show is made with both in mind (in host Matt Bevan’s basement); separate teams edit the audio and video versions together. We like the use of archive material, the accessibility of the whole thing, and the journalism is pretty good too. Worth a watch. Or a listen.

When You’re Invisible has returned for a new season - telling the stories of people who are often caricatured and left feeling frustrated and unseen. The show has most recently featured a Black male teacher in Baltimore and a community organiser in Philadelphia - working class people and folks who are othered in American society.

The BBC’s Gangster returns for a new season today, to tell the story of Glasgow’s most notorious crime families. This time, it delves deep into one of Scotland’s deadliest gang wars, between two families – the Daniels and the Lyons. Hosted by investigative journalist, Livvy Haydock, this latest instalment of Gangster follows the explosive story of how two families and their associates went to war over control of the lucrative drug trade in north Glasgow.