The Podcast Show London 2027 tickets go on sale: new stages announced

• Tickets for The Podcast Show London 2027 have just gone on sale. The event, taking place in London on 19-20 May, announced a stage focused on video, as well as a larger expo space, a focus on networking, and a new Creator Economy Zone, helping the industry meet the creators driving this space. The largest podcast industry event in the world, 2027 will be its sixth year.

  • Use code PODNEWS10 to save on eligible passes. Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland, will be there.

• Has Amazon Ads been marking its own homework a little too generously? The company announced that it is to change the way it counts ad display impressions, according to a note from Amazon posted to LinkedIn. “Today, we count an (ad) impression when the ad starts to download to the shopper’s device. Starting Jan 1, 2027, we will count an impression once the ad appears on the shopper’s screen”. It warns advertisers that they’ll see, on average 63% lower ad impressions as a result. As PPCLand suggests, Amazon is implying that “most of the display impressions currently counted on these placements never reach a screen”; and points out that Google’s AdSense also calculates ad impressions the same way. That rather puts the current argument about podcast downloads vs plays (we think there’s a 13% difference between the two) in a different light…

• Podscribe released its rankers for October 2026. Crime Junkie continues to reach the most people; while The MeidasTouch Podcast had the most plays. iHeartMedia saw a 63% jump in monthly plays; and online retailer Quince was the biggest podcast ad spender. Two shows on the video platform Rumble hit the top 10.

• Ausha released automatic monetization to podcasters across the world. Shows need to have 5,000 downloads in the past thirty days to qualify; monetization is enabled with a few clicks from an Ausha account.

• Australians overwhelmingly prefer to listen to their podcasts, but you still need a strategy for audio and video, suggests new data from Australia’s PodPoll 26. The data shows that both men and women prefer to listen to podcasts, but 72% move between the two.

• Apple released its Q4/26 financial results. Podcasts weren’t mentioned in the earnings call. Services (the bit of Apple where Podcasts are in) made $31.6bn in revenue, and $24 bn profit. Both are the highest ever. However, revenue for the Services division was up +9.8%, which is the lowest increase for three years.

• A member of the Board of Directors of PodcastOne, Ramin Arani announced his resignation, for personal reasons, on Oct 27. Arani, a Fidelity Investments portfolio manager, was on all three financial committees within the company. His resignation comes a day after the interim Chief Financial Officer Craig Christensen announced that he was leaving the company. Christensen becomes PodcastOne’s third finance chief to have left the company in less than two years. From the outside, the timing looks difficult - recent filings suggested “substantial doubt” that the company can continue trading beyond July 2027, and both people leave at a time when PodcastOne is apparently attracting “multiple” potential buyers.

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