Amy Poehler wins Golden Globes Award

• As widely predicted, Amy Poehler’s Good Hang won the Best Podcast at the Golden Globes. Given the prize by Snoop Dogg, in her acceptance speech she said that her podcast was “an attempt to make a very rough and unkind world fill with a little more love and laughter - and laughing with people, not at them”. It’s the first time that the Golden Globes have had a podcast category; there were six nominees and a little controversy, with some suggesting the awards don’t understand the industry. Good Hang only launched in March 2025; in an interview, Poehler said she was a fan of the medium of podcasting and a huge listener.

  • Spotify Global Head of Podcasts Roman Wasenmüller told Podnews: “Good Hang with Amy Poehler winning Best Podcast at the Golden Globes is a powerful validation of what we’ve long believed—that podcasts are one of the most impactful and culturally relevant forms of storytelling today. Amy, with her team and The Ringer, have created something truly special, and this recognition celebrates the creativity, heart, and ambition behind their work. To see a podcast honored on this global stage is not only a win for Good Hang, but a defining moment for podcasting and Spotify.”
  • SiriusXM had three of the six nominees, and hosted a pre-Golden Globes brunch at a restaurant in Los Angeles.

• Nikki Glaser, the host of the Golden Globes, also ran a comedy bit making fun of podcasts, including skipping ads and “vulnerable moments hijacked by inappropriate ad copy”.

• Netflix launched “podcasting” on its service, with The Bill Simmons Podcast. It posted a video promoting upcoming shows from Spotify Studios, The Ringer, iHeartMedia and Barstool Sports, on a social media site. The Bill Simmons Podcast has 257,000 subscribers on YouTube and each episode got around 100,000 views; but will no longer be available on YouTube as a result of the deal. Podcasts are only available on Netflix in the US, so international viewers are now out of luck.

• What does AI say about your podcast? PodSEO has released analysis of what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini actually recommend when users ask for podcasts. The company discovers that AI assistants typically don’t disagree with each other; and that shows are chosen using an algorithm that relies on editorial websites and directories.

• I researched ~2,000 of the most popular podcasts in 2025: Here are some interesting statistics you can takeaway! is a post in the r/podcasting subreddit, showing genre data. Podcasts in the news category are the youngest, with an average age of 3.4 years; the science category contains shows on average twice as old, at 7.2 years. The genre that posts the most episodes per week is the news category (3.8 per week); the least is the fiction category (0.66).

• Podscribe announced an expansion of its global podcast and audio measurement capabilities with integration with a third identity graph from Roqad, allowing for more accurate attribution.

• Spotify had a party in the company’s new Sycamore Street Studios in Los Angeles.

• In a big week for podcasting, the New York Times crossword this weekend included the clue: “Bit of entertainment for a morning commute, maybe”. 91 across. Begins with P.

The Tech Stuff - with RSS.com

• Chartable closed for everyone on Dec 8; and now no longer works. That means that all shows with chtbl.com or chrt.fm in the enclosure URL will no longer play (Spotify hasn’t maintained a simple redirect). As of this weekend, that’s affecting 10,667 different shows, according to The Podcast Index. Here’s how to remove the Chartable Trackable RSS prefix in Megaphone if you use that.

  • We covered this story in Sept 2024; Spotify emailed every customer in Oct 2024 and again later; most podcast hosting companies (including our sponsor RSS.com) programmatically removed the Chartable prefixes before it officially stopped working in Dec 2024. It kept working for Megaphone customers until Dec 2025; but Megaphone haven’t removed Chartable prefixes for their customers who have missed all the emails.

• Kagi, a paid-for, ad-free search engine, has a podcasts tab; and links direct to episodes. Links used are the episode pages from your RSS feed.

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The third season of Autocracy in America has been launched by The Atlantic. The first episode is especially timely: examining how the transformation of ICE into a masked and heavily armed paramilitary — and the deployment of the National Guard to American cities — are reshaping democracy.

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