Who's moving where?

• Podnews has launched new, live data today showing podcast host migrations. A first for the industry, it shows the small amount of individual shows that have switched podcast hosting company - where they came from, and where they’re went. It’s updated daily.

• First look: Acast has bought RadioPublic, acquiring tools and services for podcasters everywhere. The acquisition also sees RadioPublic co-founders Chris Quamme Rhoden (CTO) and Matt MacDonald (Chief Product Officer) join the Acast team. Jake Shapiro left in September to join Apple.

• PJ Vogt and Sruthi Pinnamaneni have left Gimlet Media's Reply All. Eric Eddings, former host of Gimlet’s The Nod podcast, accused the two of working against efforts to diversify Gimlet’s staff and content. Vogt has apologised, saying he had behaved “like a baby and a jerk”; Pinnamaneni said “I feel great regret”. Gimlet Managing Director Lydia Polgreen said, in a staff email, “From the moment I arrived at Gimlet, it was clear that our culture needed work, and that there were big things that needed to change to make this a better, more equitable place”.

• Commercial music can now be licensed for podcast use in SongsforPodcasters - a new website with more than ten thousand tracks available. Pricing starts at $55. The CEO and CTO, Kirt Debique, is on the Podland podcast today.

• The IAB quietly released an update to their proposed v2.1 Podcast Measurement Guidelines at some point in January for public comment. There was no announcement, and the IAB appear to have removed their previous v2.1 proposal from the web: we kept a copy, though, and have done a diff of it. It now contains guidance for IPv6 measurement, and updated US-based podcast player market share. The public comment period has already ended.

• More than one-in-ten podcast listeners searches for a podcast on a specific topic, according to data from The Canadian Podcast Listener 2020. They have published more data on How listeners discover new podcasts.

• The first nominees for the Latin Podcast Awards have been announced.

• Podcast host Captivate has announced new integration with Descript, allowing you to upload directly from the Descript interface. Megaphone has launched a unique listener performance tool, allowing “elegant, real-time visibility into podcast impressions, downloads, and listener engagement”.

  
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• Puskin Industries has hired Kerri Kolen as Editorial Director, Audiobooks; and Nicole Morano, Pushkin’s first Publicity Director.

  
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• PODWORK has been announced: a conference aimed at those who want to launch a podcast network.

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From CBC Podcasts: Pop Chat - from food trends to celebrity gossip and everything in between, join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud for a weekly dive into pop culture alongside special guests.

Cadence13 has launched Unsolved Mysteries, a weekly podcast based on the long-running TV show.

Black Girls Texting has signed with PodcastOne’s LadyGang Network. It’s the sixth podcast on the network, “which features a female-driven, all-star lineup of pop-culture, reality television and motherhood trend-setters”.

Marc & Heidi - The Other D’Amelios is a new podcast from the entrepreneur parents of Charli and Dixie D’Amelio, who are TikTok stars. It’s on the Ramble network.