Major revelations about UK's prime minister come to podcasting

• Britain’s former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been revealed in a podcast as joking about flouting distancing rules: even as he publicly claimed he was unaware rules had been broken. The revelation comes from the UK’s ITV News in a new podcast launched today, called Partygate: The Inside Story.

  • It’s notable this is released in a podcast; ITV News produces the main evening news bulletin in the UK on ITV, reaching an average of 3.2m viewers.

• The Signal Award winners have been announced. Winners will be celebrated in an award ceremony on Jan 23. The awards, which aim to “celebrate the world’s best podcasts”, have a judging academy based wholly in the US.

• “If you are a creator or entrepreneur, there has never been a better time for you,” says Spotify’s Max Cutler in a LinkedIn post today, designed to combat what he calls “pessimistic industry views around the future of podcasting”. However, he predicts that “there will be desperate M&A activity this year as companies with fundamentally bad business models will flirt with going bankrupt.”

• Steven Goldstein writes 7 things about audio from CES. Podcasts were a hot topic, he says. Meanwhile, radio company Jacobs Media is running a free webinar on Jan 19.

• For the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, Nic Newman has published Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2023. Newman reports that 72% of media publishers plan to grow resources for podcasts and digital audio.

• GreatPods released a “top critics of 2022” list. It seems that the UK is leading the way for podcast critics.

Podnews is always fun to do, even during a family holiday. Here’s the sun going down a couple of hours ago. It’s with that thought that we sincerely thank Mohammad Ali from Glassbox Media, and Mike Dell (from Blubrry, though this looks personal), for becoming our latest personal supporters. We appreciate you. You can be like Mohammad or Mike too, over here on Patreon.

Moves and hires

• Brigid Judge is now Business Development Lead of USA at Audiomob. She had worked at Podsights since Dec 2019 as Director of Sales, and was the company’s first sales hire.

• Nik Gandhi is now Marketing Manager at UK production company Fresh Air. He was with Listen.

Tips and tricks - with Podcast Movement Evolutions

• How to Create & Record Read Ads Successfully for Monetization - Riverside recommend writing a script, practicing it, and recording more than one take.

Podcast News - with editaudio

From editaudio: Mina AF with Mina Starsiak Hawk Mina Starsiak-Hawke of HGTV’s Good Bones answers listener questions and hosts candid chats with guests about the things we’re often embarrassed to think about or feel.

Charlie Webster almost died. After cycling 3,000 miles for charity, she became critically ill and was put on life support - but after two weeks in a coma, she made a miraculous recovery. In Died and Survived, new today from Lionsgate Sound, she meets with other people who’ve had near death experiences, as well experts who are using hard science and modern technology to gain never-before seen or heard evidence of the afterlife.

The Sting is new from Podshape, and follows the story of an undercover detective who infiltrated the Australian Mafia for 37 months. The show is available now via Apple Podcasts Subscriptions, and will be available to all from Jan 30.

The Consumer Insights Podcast announced a new season yesterday. From Stravito, an enterprise insights platform, the show looks at how companies like La-Z-Boy, Cineplex, and Ulta use market research. It’s hosted by Stravito co-founder & CEO Thor Olof Philogène.

The second season of I’m Not a Monster starts today from the BBC, looking at the Samira Begum story. The British teen who disappeared from London and emerged four years later in Syria with the Islamic State group gives the BBC a full account of what really happened; it’s available via RSS and in BBC Sounds, and is also available ad-free via BBC Podcasts Premium in the US and Canada.
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