PAVE Studios shows head to Disney+ and Hulu

• Another two podcasts are making it to a streaming service - this time, from PAVE Studios. PAVE Studios’ original video podcast Clues and a new show, Mother Knows Murder, will stream on Disney+ and Hulu, it’s been announced. “It’s the first of many places we expect these stories to go,” said the founder and CEO Max Cutler.

  • Meanwhile in Australia, podcast publisher Mamamia is to make it to Samsung TV Plus as a streaming TV channel. Dan Barrett’s Always Be Watching was at the announcement. The company says that 30% of its consumption is via video.
  • And in the UK, Samsung TV Plus has added a Trevor Noah channel, which contains segments from What Now? as well as his standup routines.

• The inaugural SONARR Awards were held last night in Sydney NSW, Australia. Of the 33 awards presented, 22 went to independent creators. We’ve a full list of the winners, and pictures from the night.

• Podcasting now has almost a billion listeners worldwide, says new global research from MIDiA Research. YouTube leads in almost every territory, with 32% market share globally, and added 27 million users in 2025, suggests the research. Apple Podcasts ranks fourth, and added just 2 million.

• Adam Curry is to step back from No Agenda, with the show on October 29th being his last. Making the announcement in his faith-based podcast We Get To Do This he said that he hopes the show will continue in some form. His co-host John C Dvorak passed away earlier this year; in today’s No Agenda with Matt Long, Curry says “When John died, honestly, the show died as we know it.”

  • Adam Curry is a guest in the Podnews Weekly Review today.

• YouTube is readying an AI-powered tool that will take a clip of audio and make it into a YouTube Short, according to YouTube’s Emma Sweet. She is on, er, a YouTube short from The Podglomerate.

  • YouTube is also looking at a possible expansion into audiobooks, according to the Wall Street Journal.

• Almost half of podcast consumers would join a free VIP club from a show they follow, according to The Podcast Study. Strategic Solutions Research and Point-To-Point Marketing presented a webinar on Tuesday, which shared other revenue opportunities beyond ads.

• Netflix announced it’s to cut 1,000 jobs. That represents 6% of its workforce. “The company’s product, tech, legal and human resources teams would be the most impacted,” the company’s co-CEOs said in an email. In Q2/26, it had posted record revenue and profit for the quarter.

• Anthropic is adding one job: Podcast Media Manager. “You will own how Claude shows up in podcasts, one of our most important channels for reaching professionals and knowledge workers.”

• Ira Glass spoke at the Resonate Podcast Festival.

• Podground announced the two winners of its third and final micro-grant of 2026.

• And, while Apple seems reticent to market its declining Apple Podcasts app, it’s still splashing the cash. Fresh off a campaign for Safari, it has just paid $25 million towards President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom.

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With Airwave: Think Fast Talk Smart is all about effective communication. Best-selling author Matt Abrahams interviews experts to provide actionable insights that help you communicate with clarity, confidence, and impact. Just published: learn faster, and fail smarter.

In a special episode of The Greg Laurie Show, Rick Rubin, the legendary producer behind Johnny Cash, Adele, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, just flipped the script and interviewed Pastor Greg Laurie. They dig into where music and faith collide, from the Jesus Movement to today’s music scene, and what may have been lost along the way.

The Vardø Witch Trials, an independent English-language documentary about Norway’s deadliest witch hunt, is No. 1 in both History and Top Series on Apple Podcasts in Norway. The series was made independently by Lisa Williams, with sound design by Craig Edmondson (The Pitcairn Trials), and its audience has been driven largely by women in both Norway and the UK.

Reckoning with Mary Gauthier is a nine-episode journey into the stories, songwriting craft, and deeper meaning behind the songs on Mary Gauthier’s new album of the same name. Mary sits down with her co-writers (including Vince Gill, Lori McKenna, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Beth Nielsen Chapman, and more) to explore how songs come to life and the deeply personal and universal subjects at its heart.

New comedy podcast Pacific Dark from RNZ, dives headfirst into the stories that keep people awake at night, and the ones you probably shouldn’t Google at 2am. Hosted by Pasifika comedians UceGang (Simeon Fiapule) and Just the Norms (Regan Foa’i), they investigate supernatural encounters, haunted locations and Pacific urban legends laced with fictional elements, letting loose with their jokes, turning some truly wacky stories into crack-up sessions.

The Zune. LaserDisc. The Game Boy Camera. Some pieces of technology never got the future they deserved, but they left a mark on the people who used them. Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet returns today for Season Three, as award-winning host Danny Brown revisits forgotten gadgets, lost formats and the curious corners of tech culture that still live rent-free in our memories.