Production company Podimo raises $78m

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• Copenhagen-based podcast production company Podimo has secured $78m of funding. The subscription company hosts more than 950 original shows, and plans to move into new markets.

• $78m? Hold my beer - Verbit, a voice AI platform focusing on transcriptions, has raised $250m in funding.

• The Verge reports that RadioPublic, which was purchased by Acast in February, is broken for many users, and has been for months. We reported in early October that it wasn’t updating some shows.

• Joe Rogan isn’t the #1 podcast in Spotify again - The Always Sunny Podcast has beaten Rogan to the top slot. Hosted on Simplecast, it’s a fan podcast about It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a sitcom which returns for a fifteenth season on December 1. (It’s not an exclusive show; and while we’re sure they’re there on merit, we’ve heard whispers that there’s some chart manipulation going on elsewhere in Spotify. We’re at editor@podnews.net if you want to give us a tip).

• Netflix and Spotify have “come together” to launch a Netflix Hub on Spotify. It includes playlists for Netflix shows, and additional audio.

• The owner of PodcastOne, LiveOne, is to acquire Palm Beach Records in South Florida. The company plans to expand their content into podcasting.

• A general manager of an NPR member station has called for NPR to coordinate its podcast strategies better with member stations. NPR CEO John Lansing has signalled that this is on the cards for next year. Paul Maassen of WWNO made his comments during an NPR board meeting.

• Equipment manufacturer RØDE has launched a new, sleeker, lavalier microphone, the Lavalier II, for US $99.

  
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• GQ magazine looks at “tv’s podcast goldrush”. It describes Wondery as an “ear-based business”. Cute.

• In Sounds Profitable with Magellan AI, Bryan Barletta notes that shows with Apple Podcasts Subscriptions gets the most promotion within the Apple Podcasts app.

• If you’re in France and looking for the Samsung Free app for your Galaxy phone that we mentioned yesterday, the company calls it “Samsung O” in the country, mais naturellement.

• Casper Mattresses is to go private less than two years after an IPO. It lost $25.3m last quarter, even though it seems more podcasters sleep on a Casper mattress than any other brand.

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In Blue Wire's limited series WR1 presented by WynnBet, legendary NFL wide receiver Cris Carter interviews legends of the WR position as well as the next generation of superstars to understand what makes this position so unique, as so many personalities and stories come from outside of the hash marks. Guests include Julian Edelman, Adam Thielen, Mike Evans, Calvin Johnson, and many more.

Writ Large has published its 100th episode today. Each episode features a world-class professor talking about how one of their favorite books changed the world forever, scripted into an engaging 30 minute story. Today’s episode is all about Hamlet. (The play, not the cigar).

Linktree has launched their second podcast Game Face, focused on how college athletes can build their brand in the new realities of name, image, and likeness opportunities. The first guest is Chloe Mitchell, the first student athlete to reportedly profit from NIL rules. - read more
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Diana Chan, a winner of Australian reality TV show MasterChef, has launched Turning Point. The show delves into the creative minds of influential people to uncover how they achieved success from turning a passion into a reality. It’s produced by DM Podcasts. - read more

Italian food - not just pasta and pizza, but also Casu Martzu, a cheese filled with maggots; and Sanguinaccio, a dessert made of blood. Yum! The Ugly Ducklings of Italian Cuisine - Scarrafoni in Cucina is a new, bi-lingual podcast from SBS covering those regional delicacies that don’t get onto Instagram that often. Ascolta tutti gli episodi in italiano e in inglese per uno sguardo inedito sulla cucina italiana. - read more

Cats of the Wild is an independent documentary podcast sharing stories of wild cat conservation from around the world. As Tiger King roars back on Netflix for Season 2, the latest episode features Leif Cocks from the International Tiger Project about the real life challenges in conserving the Sumatran Tiger and what you can do at home to help save them. The podcast is hosted by Andy Varvel.

Just in time for Thanksgiving in the US, Green Eggs and Dan is running a mini-series called History Bites. Why do we eat turkey on Thanksgiving? Did you know that salt was so valuable that it was once used as currency and it’s where we get the word SALary? Are Cheetos a byproduct of World War II? This comedy/history podcast will tell you.

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