Earwolf studio table saved

• Earlier this month, we mentioned that the Earwolf signature studio table had been “taken away” after the closure of its New York studio. Good news: SiriusXM’s Director of Podcast AdOps Kelsey Butterworth - who started working at Earwolf in 2016 - “staged a daring 11th hour rescue” with Jared O’Connell. The tables are now safe and sound at an undisclosed location north of the city, awaiting their next adventure.

• PodAnalyst is a brand new tool launched today that helps podcasters unify their analytics across Apple, Spotify and YouTube. The product was founded by George Lejnine and advised by podcast industry veteran and former Head of Product at Cadence13, Jim Saraco - and podcasts with under 1,000 listeners can use the product free forever.

• Amazon was the top spender in podcast advertising last month according to Magellan AI. GoDaddy increased its spend more than 44× in August according to the service.

• Radiotopia announced its upcoming podcast slate.

• A developer called Matthew Brunelle has worked out how to change the code for Pocket Casts to remove the advertising. The apps were made open-source by current owners Automattic, which makes it relatively easy (and legal) to do so. However, the app will still use proprietary Pocket Casts servers; and for now, you’ll need to be an Android developer to rebuild the app in this way. In any case, this seems to punish the company for making the apps open-source, which has accelerated a number of new features. Better to use AntennaPod or Apple Podcasts… or, better still, support the developers by paying for it, we think.

• Apple Podcasts has seemingly updated a page called “Show availability features” to its website. “You can select where you want your show to be available on Apple Podcasts. By default, all countries or regions are selected, but you can deselect territories where you don’t want your show to appear.” Changes take 24 hours to take effect; this show shouldn’t be available in Ireland if we’ve done it right. (Podnews uses a data centre in Ireland).

• ClearMyVoice says that it will “eliminate noise, filler words, long pauses, and mouth sounds and many more”. You get a 30-minute free trial; the service is $5.50 for 5 hours.

• Until the company switched to Magellan AI for attribution data, RedCircle was missing information for about 25% of its campaign impressions, according to a new Magellan AI case study. The switch also helped RedCircle’s team shorten its setup time for campaigns from hours to minutes, the study claims.

• Coleman Insights and Pantheon Media released a recorded chat about music in podcasts. The discussion suggests that music companies should allow licensing; that podcast hosting companies should administer it; and also that Pantheon claimed 4,500 uses of music as “fair use”.

• Users of Chrome on Android phones can now use a built-in feature to listen to an AI-powered overview of the webpage they’re reading.

• The Independent Podcast Awards will be hosted by comedian and podcaster Harriet Kemsley. The show takes place in central London on Oct 15.

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Moves and hires

• The Guardian has hired Jonathan Menjivar to produce its first US video podcast. He was with Pineapple Street Studios.

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Stockton Street, the new podcast from Venus & Serena Williams, has announced an exclusive advertising deal with the fwd. Network. “We are seeing a long-overdue shift where women athletes are celebrated not just for their records, but for the cultural and societal impact they’ve made,” said Cathy Csukas, CEO.

Power. Fame. Obsession. Betrayal. These are more than headlines. They are the forces behind some of the most unforgettable crimes in history. And, the subject of Crimes Of… - a new show launched by PAVE Studios today.