Daily Mail podcasts expand to the US

• The UK’s Daily Mail is expanding its podcasts into the United States. Head of Podcasts for owner DMG, Jamie East, tells the Podnews Weekly Review that podcasts like The Trial of Diddy are showing that expansion into the US will work well. “We’ve got the facilities to do it, we’ve got the people, we’ve got the willing and the desire.” And, he says, there are wider opportunities, too. “If you’ve got someone based in Melbourne or Sydney, and New York and London, there’s not an hour where where you can’t have a team working away.” The full interview is in the Podnews Weekly Review this week.

• Max Cutler from PAVE Studios writes that creators are the new Hollywood; with podcasts “officially going mainstream”, YouTube dominating streaming, and engaged communities now directly connected to creators.

• Audio processing company ai|coustics has launched a new AI model called Lark, which claims “users can elevate their audio to professional-grade quality, using advanced reconstructive technology to repair even the most distorted recordings, restore lost frequencies, and add depth and clarity.”

  • You can try it on their website, so we did - here’s a test file with poor-quality echoey original clips from Zoom, then the Lark-treated audio straight after. By way of comparison, here’s the same thing, but using Adobe Enhance (v1). Ai|coustics sent this better example.

• SiriusXM released its Q3/24 financial results. Podcast advertising revenue was up 6% q-on-q. Ad revenue for Pandora was down 2% q-on-q though.

• Roads Audio is a new app, “bringing you closer to your friends through deep, podcast-like conversations”, particularly built for asynchronous chats. (Those of us with long memories remember AudioBoo.)

• Kids and family podcast producer Pinna has presented a pristine and playful purple pictorial pattern: a fancy new logo and redesign.

• Transistor now lets you build podcast networks and network websites - letting you organise multiple podcasts into a network, and feature all your shows in one place.

• Independent podcast network Ossa Collective has joined forces with Colture Media to launch the Colture Podcast Network - to “elevate creators who prioritize artistic vision, influence, and authentic connections with their audiences.”

• “Most podcasters are amazed at the amount of attention that the new phenomenon has generated.” Twenty years ago this week, the New York Times carried its first article about podcasting, written by Cyrus Farivar. “Mr. Curry estimated that among the 300 podcasters worldwide, thousands of people were either listening to or producing broadcasts.”

A production fault yesterday meant some of our newsletter wasn’t readable in certain email apps. Apologies. We’d blame Microsoft if it was their fault, but it wasn’t, so we won’t.

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Moves and hires

• Zöe Schiffer is joining WIRED as Director, Business & Industry, and is the co-host of WIRED’s new flagship podcast, Uncanny Valley. She joins from The Verge and Platformer, and officially starts in WIRED’s West Coast offices in January.

Tips and tricks - with Memberful

• Craig Hewitt from Castos shares 10 Years Of Podcasting Experience In 28 Minutes on YouTube. There are 59 tips, too.

Podcast News - with New Podcast Trailers - the podcast

Episode 600 of CNN’s The Axe Files with David Axelrod flips the script, with Anderson Cooper interviewing Alexrod to talk about the origin of the podcast, memorable moments, what David has learnt, and what David will be watching for on election night.

Pantheon Media’s The Metallica Report is now available in hi-res 24-bit resolution exclusively on the Qobuz platform. Qobuz is a high-quality music streaming service with high-resolution tracks and editorial content - including Metallica’s discography.

Stew Redwine, Head of Creative at Oxford Road and host of the award-winning podcast Ad Infinitum is venturing into fiction podcasting with Gypsy Vampire Slayers from Kansas. In 1990, four teenagers in Faith, Kansas, are forced to choose between devotion and doubt as they confront an ancient evil determined to destroy their town. It’s co-created with Audio Producer Zach Hahn.