The biggest new shows of 2022

• Which were the biggest new shows in 2022? Edison Podcast Metrics reports that the three biggest launches last year were The Deck (launched Feb 2, audiochuck); Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade (launched Jan 12, Cadence13); and True Crime with Kendall Rae (launched Apr 22, Mile Higher Media/Audioboom Studios)

• First look: Spotify’s Megaphone has launched its own broadcast-to-podcast technology tools. Building on the toolset it bought in its acquisition of Whooshkaa in Dec 2021, the radio-to-podcast tools are already in use by FOX News Audio.

• Kids podcasts are very popular, says new research from Kids Listen - saying that nearly half of all kid podcast listeners tune in every day. The data also suggests parents regard kids podcasts as very trustworthy. The data was released in the survey Kids Podcasts in the Age of Screens.

  • More from the authors of the survey in an interview with Sanden Totten in the Podnews Weekly Review tomorrow.

• Spanish-language podcast platform iVoox has launched a new iOS app, offering “a totally renewed design following current trends, improvements in usability, new features to make it more accessible, as well as a new dark theme for better visibility.”

• Podcast Radio has launched a podcast production house, to make shows for brand partners worldwide.

• NPR has quit Twitter.

• Gumball posts a recap on their panel at Podcast Movement: Betting on Yourself, How to Succeed as an Independent Podcaster

• Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast has renewed a number of exclusive ad partnerships with a number of popular shows.

  • (As an aside, Libsyn are based in Pittsburgh PA. We said Philadelphia PA yesterday: apparently these are different places, we know right, wild, who knew? sorry to fans of the steelers/penguins/pirates etc).

Good News Corner

• “There is double-digit growth in audiences across every age demographic”, says iHeart’s Conal Byrne in an op-ed for Forbes. In a piece designed to bust myths, he also highlights podcasting’s measurement and targeting tools, and the rise in time-spent-listening.

• Signal Hill Insights shares four bright signs for podcasting; a growth in podcast audience, continued ad spend, the buzz from YouTube, and much more room for growth. Get some positivity into your life.

Where the Internet Lives

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Guided by host Stephanie Wong, Where the Internet Lives is a Webby Award–winning podcast from Google about the fascinating world of data centers. Venture into places that very few people ever see firsthand – and learn about the technology, people, and places that make the internet run.

This season, explore how data centers change the world around us in surprising and beneficial ways. Hear stories about prairie restoration, the solar-energy boom, recycled canal water, and cities undergoing economic transformation – all enabled by data centers.

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Podcast News

Dan Snow’s History Hit today celebrates the 70th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s first ever James Bond book by talking to an actual spy. Expect high speed chases, modified cars and a mission to uncover secret enemy technology - with Dave Butler, behind enemy lines in East Germany.

Technology for news reporting has dramatically changed storytelling, as Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist Jeff Kofman highlights in StoryTech. This episode, a look at photography with Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist and LA Times staff photographer Carolyn Cole, who talks about how the transformation from film to digital changed her craft, for better and for worse.

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