
Layoffs and closed shows at NPR
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As announced in February, NPR has made 10% of its workforce redundant in a cost-cutting move. The cost-saving has also impacted NPR’s podcasts, with Invisibilia, Louder Than A Riot and Rough Translation, as well as a short-form comedy show Everyone & Their Mom, all stopping production. The Embedded podcast will also absorb a number of other narrative series; no radio shows were cancelled. The equivalent of 150 job losses, it’s the largest job reduction at NPR for fifteen years.
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Audible has announced the launch of Dolby Atmos on the platform, and a launch of more than 40 shows mastered in spatial audio. “Dolby Atmos expands the possibilities of audio storytelling through the ability to place sounds in a multidimensional space, drawing listeners into a deeper, richer, and more lifelike spatial sound experience that fully engrosses them in each story.”
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A number of podcasters are making their way to Prague for Radiodays Europe 2023. Speakers include Eric Nuzum, Arielle Nissenblatt, and Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland.
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Following our coverage of Bloomberg’s story on Spotify yesterday, we’re told that Spotify has spent more than 10% of the fund to date. We’re also separately told that this includes administrative costs and other initiatives.
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Popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked: the channel’s 15.3mn subscribers got to see promotion for crypto scams instead. The videos now appear to have been restored.
- YouTube does have two-factor authentication for its accounts, which makes this hack harder to achieve. We’re unaware of podcast hosting companies using 2FA as a security tool.
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Spotify’s R&D team has published a paper about goal-oriented podcast recommendations - “I want to learn something” rather than “play me something similar to what I’ve listened to already”.
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Podcasts are turning into real-life events, says WIRED magazine; reporting a recent get-together for “murderinos”, the name given for listeners to My Favorite Murder.
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Podcast data for Mar 24
- #1 in Apple Podcasts: US: The Deck Investigates (audiochuck) CA: The Girl in the Blue Mustang (NBC News)
- #1 in Spotify: US: The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan) CA: The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan)
- Over the last week, 224,680 podcasts published at least one new episode. See more podcast data at the Podcast Business Journal.
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