Overcoat Media wins Production Company of the Year

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• The winners of the 2023 Audio Production Awards were announced in London. Based in South Wales, Overcoat Media won Production Company of the Year, while Reduced Listening’s Anishka Sharma won Producer of the Year. We’ve a full list of the winners.

• Exclusive: The host of fiction sci-fi anthology podcast The Program has published their report for 2023: detailing revenue, downloads, recommendations, and other parts of the podcast’s growth in the year. It’s super-useful for any podcaster to read.

• “Things are looking a little grim in public radio and public radio podcasts, too.” Ben Brock Johnson, EP of Podcasts for WBUR, writes in NiemanLab: comparing podcasting to an American sports movie. “WBUR isn’t alone in the discovery that swinging for the fences isn’t always the path to crossing home plate.”

• RSS reader Flipboard has launched a podcast about social media called Dot Social, to coincide with the company pulling off Twitter/X.

Podcast News - with Airwave

From Airwave: Noodle Loaf is an interactive music education podcast for kids that has received the Common Sense Media Selection seal for creating high quality kids content. Episodes contain fun music for kids, movement activities, rhythm games and plenty of learning through play.

Tomorrow, the Podnews Weekly Review features an interview with Lisa Jacobs from Ad Results Media, and Brenden Mulligan from Podpage.