The Ambies 2021: all the winners

• In an award ceremony live from Los Angeles, California, The Ambies were announced last night, the first podcast awards from The Podcast Academy. The podcast of the year went to Wondery’s Dying For Sex. The awards seemed to be a streaming success, too, with 25,000 people watching at peak. From the full list of winners, Amazon’s Wondery was the winning studio of the night, with five awards announced; Crooked Media getting four, and QCODE with three. The podcast with the biggest award haul was Wind of Change, with three separate wins.

  
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• Julep Hosting is now IAB certified: the first podcast hosting company from Germany to have achieved certification. They’re also the first company in the world to have achieved certification to the new v2.1 standard. We’ve updated our list of podcast hosts.

• PodTV is a new streaming TV channel for podcasts, and launched their iOS and Android app. There’s a full interview with co-founder Brandon Blackburn in Podland this week.

• NOVA Entertainment has announced the NOVA Entertainment Podcast Network. Apart from its own original content, NEPN also brings together shows from The Australian, Sky News, The Daily Telegraph, Fox Sports Australia, News.com.au and CBC.

• Website builder Podcastpage has unveiled an integration with Fusebox.

• Clubhouse is in significant decline, says WARC. Downloads are down 90% from February. It’s now rolling out on Android globally.

• The new managers of Audacity have faced a humiliating lesson in open-source, as they tried to add both Google and Yandex analytics into the audio editor. After a community revolt, they’ve reversed that decision.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS․com

• The upcoming version of Castamatic on iOS will support PodcastIndex search.
• PodcastIndex itself has 3.7m podcasts in it currently. The most host-submitted feeds are currently coming from Buzzsprout.
• The Apple Podcasts crawler is now grabbing our RSS feed 82 times in a day, according to our latest stats: every 17 minutes. This is quite an improvement from May 4, when it visited 10 times in the day (every 2 hours). As a reminder, the crawler now powers the Apple Podcasts app.
• Like Podnews, Overcast is also submitting new shows to Podcast Index, its developer Marco Arment has said.

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• On Sounder: Spout Podcast You know them for their songs, videos, and epic performances, but there is always something even their super fans don’t know until now.

• Launching your audio drama is a good post on Reddit about audio fiction podcasts.

  
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• 7 Tips to Remember When Choosing a Podcast Name - Somnath Basumatary says, in part: “One of the reasons why some podcasts don’t have the popularity they deserve is the name does not give an actual clue of what the content is about.”

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From the HubSpot Podcast Network: The Salesman Podcast is the worlds most downloaded B2B sales podcast - helping sales professionals learn how to find buyers and win business from them in a modern, effective, and ethical way.

Women In Tech, hosted by Espree Devora, is the focus of a feature in Grit Daily. It’s been going since 2012.

West Cork has a new episode out: the first for three years. “The episode takes the listener inside an incredible courtroom drama in Paris in which a man was tried for murder without a legal defence and without even being present himself.” The show is also to be made into a TV series.

Death in Ice Valley has also announced a new episode with updates on the case. That’ll be the first for almost two years.