iHeartMedia and Warner sign co-pro deal for HBO Max

• iHeartMedia and WarnerMedia Entertainment have signed a deal to co-produce a slate of companion podcasts to promote HBO Max and their upcoming catalogue of original and legacy shows.

• Wondery has launched its own podcast app - no, you can’t be included in it, it’s just for their stuff. It’s iOS only for now, “Android coming later”. It’s free and quite pretty; the goal is to upsell to the WonderyPlus subscription service, at US$4.99/month.

• Spotify stopped ingesting new podcast episodes for a while yesterday: delays of over five hours were seen for some new episodes. Spotify told Podnews: “We can confirm that we have experienced an ingestion issue this morning, resulting in some delays in certain podcasts episodes being uploaded to the service. The issue has been addressed and we expect to have everything back to normal shortly.”

  • The company is also releasing an exclusive show with VICE News - Painkiller: America’s Fentanyl Crisis next week. We also hear more exclusive announcements are on the way.
  
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• Big numbers: Podchaser says they just surpassed 6,000,000 podcast credits; while we hear that Great British Podcasts, the weekly podcast recommendations newsletter from the British Podcast Awards, has just signed up its 100,000th subscriber.

• Stitcher has launched a new system to get your podcast featured by the platform. (You can also pay). They’re especially looking for “podcasts about hobbies” and “podcasts to take to bed”, if you fit there.

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