Acast enhances YouTube offerings

• First look: Acast has announced a dramatically enhanced YouTube program in the UK, allowing advertisers to access some of the largest YouTube podcasts. As part of the deal, Acast also signed an inventory partnership with Little Dot Studios, which has eleven billion monthly views on the platform. Little Dot Studios will work with Acast on its new YouTube offering, allowing Acast UK creators to unlock significant new revenue streams, and to grow their video podcasts.

• First look: Details of The Podcast Show 2026, in London, have been announced. The show will include additional stages and more networking opportunities, including what the event calls “the ultimate networking party”. Day passes are now on sale. Jason Carter, the Festival Director, tells Podnews: “Next May promises to be our biggest yet. We are delighted to hear from so many in the industry that the event has now become one of the most important shows on the global podcasting calendar.”

  • Reflecting the high number of international visitors, the event will also include an international stage, curated by Podimo.
  • Podnews readers get a discount on all passes.

• Edison Research released the top 25 podcasts in the UK for Q3/25. Wondery’s RedHanded makes it to the top 25 for the first time. Goalhanger have four shows in the list; the BBC have five. Acast and Megaphone both host six shows.

• PodcastOne has partnered with Dr Phil’s Envoy Media to launch a new multi-platform podcast network. Podcast content will broadcast on national TV networks, with Envoy podcast content and talent from PodcastOne.

• Matt Medeiros has produced an AI-powered analysis tool for podcasts - and let it loose on the Podnews Weekly Review. This YouTube video goes through his report; the full report is here, and the code used is here. Amazing.

• This is fun - an Audio Advent Calendar. A different sound is behind each box.

Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland, is an advisor to The Podcast Show in London, which appears in today’s news. Podnews also has a 50% business relationship with Podcast Movement.

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Today in Focus, The Guardian’s daily flagship show, has launched a short, ten-minute, evening show. It’ll be released at 5pm weekdays in the main Today in Focus feed, and also on YouTube.

The Luxury Dispatch with Tom Chamberlin is new today from Platform Media. With new episodes weekly, the show delivers topic-by-topic explorations of everything from iconic watches and rare cigars, to cocktail mastery, design, and a rare look inside the exclusive clubs of St. James’s. It’ll be in video too.

CONFLICTED, hosted by Aimen Dean and Thomas Small, is back for a new season. A new relaunch marks the beginning of a new phase for Conflicted, one that doubles down on the show’s core purpose: rising above the polarisation and simplifications that dominate mainstream coverage, and instead offering listeners depth, clarity, and nuance. The first episode was out yesterday, looking back on the multi-part episodes, themes, and analyses that have shaped Conflicted into a distinctive voice in audio. The show is from Message Heard.