iHeartPodcast Awards nominees announced

• iHeartMedia announced the nominations for the iHeartPodcast Awards 2023. They’ll stream on Mar 14. Our list of nominations shows just 17 of the 143 nominations are from iHeartRadio.

• The iHeartPodcast Awards “Best International Podcast” nominations list includes a nomination for British Villains. The credits, from Chicago’s Luminary, list exec producers The Cut Productions in Los Angeles, LA’s Ninth Planet Audio, and LA’s Western Sound; and the writers were LA’s Rosecrans Baldwin and Vanessa Sadler, who lives in LA but happily for this nomination is English. Phew. Gor blimey, guv, call off the rozzers, mate, it’s all above board innit.

• Triton Digital announced the US Podcast Report for November 2022. Listing participating publishers only, Crime Junkie is the new number 1. The data has removed spikes caused by Samsung Free.

• Edison Research has unveiled the US “top 50 most listened to podcasts” for the twelve months ending Sep 2022. Notably, The Ben Shapiro Show has climbed over the last four quarters from #12 (end Q4), to #9 (end Q1), to #7 (end Q2), to #5 (end Q3).

• The second annual Ondas World Podcast Awards has extended its submission deadline to Dec 31.

Moves and hires

• SoundStack has hired Hailey Feagans as VP of Marketplace Operations, and Heather Smith as VP of Publisher Enablement. Hailey comes from LiveOne; Heather, from Advisr and Triton Digital.

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Luminary’s Telephone Stories is now available on all platforms - a show examining the hall of mirrors that was Michael Jackson’s life, painstakingly, sometimes painfully, reconstructing the complex narrative of an iconic and troubled performer haunted by criminal allegations. It was produced by Ninth Planet Audio.

After getting two men released after 25 years’ wrongful conviction in prison, Proof: A True Crime Podcast is to return for a wrapup episode and a brand new season next year. It’s produced by Red Marble Media.

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