Acast scores New Zealand’s biggest interview podcast
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Exclusive: The Between Two Beers podcast, New Zealand’s most popular long-form interview podcast, has signed a multi-year deal with Acast. The partnership will include ad and sponsorship opportunities on the audio podcast, video podcast and associated social channels. The show was previously with NZME.
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Reasons to be cheerful: at Signal Hill Insights, Paul Riismandel is optimistic about podcasting in 2025 - pointing out that much has changed in the ten years since Serial. Not least - there’s a 3.4x greater chance of finding an audience in 2025 than in 2014.
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“You’re not buying enough podcasts”: Cumulus Media’s message to advertisers in the company’s 2025 Audioscape. No brand is coming close to saturating podcast audiences, says Pierre Bouvard.
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Podscribe added an “audience overlap” tool, which allows advertisers to evaluate listener duplication across channels, shows, campaigns and publishers.
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Podtrac has added two new features for customers of its $20/month “grow your show” plan - Smartlinks, to measure the effectiveness of online promotions, and rankings from Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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What’s in and out for 2025? Lauren Passell and Arielle Nissenblatt have written a blog post, and will discuss the post in a LinkedIn event this Friday.
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Just before Christmas, Podnews investigated Licensync, a “collection agency” which was sending invoices of more than $7,300 to podcast directories. One month later, we note that their website has been suspended. Your support of Podnews did that. Thank you.
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People News
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Jim Lawson has joined the Collective Heads consulting group. Lawson moves from KOSI Denver, and iHeart Media to the company, which offers, among other things, a set of podcast support services.
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Bailey Sarian has been signed by Underscore Talent. She hosts Audioboom’s Murder, Mystery & Makeup, as well as a wildly successful YouTube channel, and other outlets.
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John Morris has been hired as Chief Product Officer at SoundStack. Morris worked at Abacast, WideOrbit, and Audacy.
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Tips and tricks - with Pod Predictor by Coleman Insights
- What are the most popular names? In 2021, we discovered that the most popular podcast name was “Les podcasts de Graffiti Urban Radio” which is a bit weird. But, there are 270 shows called “Real Talk”, and 185 shows called, er, “Podcast”. Read the rest of the list to avoid.
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Podcast data for Jan 22
#1 in Apple Podcasts
The Mel Robbins Podcast (Mel Robbins)
The Rest Is History (Goalhanger)
#1 in Spotify
The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan)
The 2 Johnnies Podcast (The 2 Johnnies)
Over the last week, 191,155 podcasts published at least one new episode (up 3.1%). source
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