The podcast category listened-to longest

• Total downloads are one thing, but what podcast categories are listened-to longest? Apple Podcasts data supplied to Podnews tells us the top five categories with the longest overall global listen time, are: (1) Society and Culture, (2) Comedy, (3) News, (4) True Crime, and (5) Health and Fitness. That data is for December, but is much the same for the last half of the year, with Health and Fitness occasionally making it to #4.

  • We’d note that the categories drop-down in the Charts section of the app follows this order.

• Swell AI claims to “automate writing articles, summaries, time-stamped show notes and more for your podcasts and videos.”

• What does podcasting look like in 2023? Ozeal Enriquez, the Director of Content Marketing at Q’d Up Audio and founder of Pod Houston, thinks more podcasters will turn their shows into live events, and we’ll see more representation for all voices.

• Stat of the day: “There are 2,499,664 feeds in the (Podcast) Index with less than 2 episodes”, says Dave Jones.

Moves and hires

• Matt Medeiros writes that, due to downsizing, he left Castos last week. He was Director of Podcaster Success for the podcast hosting company; and tells us what he’s good at in this YouTube video. “If there are any podcast companies hiring, I’d love to chat!”

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• How Much Money I Earned as a YouTuber in 2022, from Ali Abdaal, outlines how he earnt revenue from his YouTube videos. His total revenue for 2022 was $4,600,593. Mind, his costs were $2.5m; and he’s been going since 2017.

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From editaudio: If you could write a letter to your future self, what would you say? In Hope This Finds Me Well, hear from those who received a letter about whether life turned out as expected.

The Chris Stigall Show has joined the Salem Podcast Network. He claims four million downloads.

The Projection Booth Podcast is celebrating its twelfth anniversary this year. Mike White, the host, tells us it is the only independently produced podcast that consistently places in the Top 20 of Apple Podcasts’ Film History chart. It’s on Spreaker.

The weekly news show Can We Please Talk? has new episodes this week at their new home of Agua Media. With award-winning guests, the next few shows promise to focus on former President Donald Trump, and Congressman George Santos.

Apple Music has launched The Message with Ebro Darden, “a series that aims to further the dialogue about the unrest and inequalities in the United States and abroad via intimate conversations with some of the most prominent voices in the culture today”. It’s one of five shows in the Apple Music channel.

Lead By Example with Bob Myers is new from Omaha Productions and ESPN - Myers will sit down with leaders from every walk of life – from sports and entrepreneurship to politics and entertainment – to share in their experiences and the lessons they learned in their journey. Today’s guest is Stephen Curry.

In 2016, a strange, debilitating illness begins to afflict American diplomats and spies working abroad – first in Cuba. Was this bizarre illness the result of a weapon - or mass psychosis - or something else entirely? As the US reopens its embassy in Cuba, VICE Audio’s Havana Syndrome is new today, aiming to unravel the mystery.

The fourth and final season of Threatened from BirdNote launches today, taking us to Puerto Rico. We’re promised good news about the Puerto Rican Parrot, a bird that, in spite of deforestation, hurricanes and the exotic pet trade, is full of life. His metabolic processes are abundant, he hasn’t kicked the bucket, he has yet to shuffle off his mortal coil, touch a curtain or join any form of choir, whether visible or invisible. We learn the difficult tradeoffs that were involved to make sure that he isn’t an ex-parrot.