Pod Bible looks for a new owner

• Pod Bible, a printed magazine and website in the UK, is looking for acquisition offers. The well-respected magazine, which featured podcasts to listen to, was made available inside The Sunday Times; it also has a newsletter for podcast listeners.

• The LARK M2S microphone was released at CES. An easily-hidden wireless microphone intended for those shooting video, it can capture thirty hours of studio-level wireless audio.

• Podpacer is a podcast planning tool to help you research and plan your next episode. Slobodan Manić, the founder, tells us that “Podpacer learns from your past episodes, plus any YouTube videos, documents, or web pages you provide and uses that knowledge to help you plan and prepare new episodes more efficiently.”

• Give us your money. Triton Digital’s Sharon Taylor writes her “short list of very polite demands — goals, really — for the podcast industry in 2025”. One of her demands that we’ll absolutely back her up with: that “Spotify, YouTube or Apple release useful industry data.” We’ve been asking these companies this for years (and suggesting some data points we know they have). Weirdly, they never seem to read that bit of our email. All three companies also don’t use IAB podcast measurement guidelines.

• Kast Media’s bankruptcy rolls on:

  • Document 264 (Jan 2) claims, again, that virtually every creditor has consented to the settlement plan, except an objection from Arcadian Vanguard, the company behind Jim Cornette’s podcasts.
  • Bankruptcy is expensive. Document 277 (Jan 7) was a legal bill from Kast Media’s lawyers for the last six months for more than $86,000.
  • This bankruptcy will be more expensive yet. Document 288 (Jan 8) is a further 341 pages of legal objections from former Kast employees, including 67 references to case law.

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Tips and tricks - with Pod Predictor by Coleman Insights

• Quill posts 7 Content Ideas for Better Engagement. Rapid-fire question segments is one of them; some big UK podcasts use these as extra shows.

Podcast News - with Airwave

New on Airwave: Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. Where do the most interesting ideas come from, what do they mean, and why do they matter?

PRX will now distribute Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio podcast. PRX and their advertising sales partner Soundrise will also now serve as Milk Street’s official sales representative for the podcast. The show was with Acast; PRX continues to distribute the radio show.

Taking Care of Your Music Business is a brand new podcast from The Mechanical Licensing Collective, a US music collection agency. The show features interviews with songwriters and music executives, offering valuable insights into navigating the business side of the music industry.

The Trendcast is new from SiriusXM - and gives an in-depth look at the evolving podcast landscape through the lens of the people driving the most change: the creators. The show reflects on the hottest podcast trends from 2024, as showcased in SiriusXM Media’s 2024 Podcast Trends Report.

The Real Killer returns for a third season this week from iHeartMedia and AYR Media. The new season will delve deep into a 1997 murder, which quickly transforms into an in-depth and wide-ranging investigation that challenges everything listeners thought they knew about criminal investigations.

Our mistake: yesterday, in this section, we suggested that George Santos had been a US Senator. He, of course, had been a member of congress. This section was written by a British man in Australia, who of course knows what the difference is between the two. Go on, ask him anything.