Pushkin’s new slate of shows includes return for Heavyweight

• Pushkin Industries unveiled their brand new slate for Fall 2025. We’re promised a new limited series from Malcolm Gladwell, a new season of Fiasco, and the return of Jonathan Goldstein’s Heavyweight.

• The New York Times is to close its Audio app. The app was launched in April 2023 to iPhone users, but the company never bothered with an Android app. The main news app will now contain the full podcast archive.

• True-crime event CrimeCon is to hold an event in Manchester for the first time. The award-winning event promises a packed line-up of leading experts discussing all things true crime.

• Podcast hosting company Blubrry has announced its pricing is to increase for all customers from Oct 1. Like many podcast hosting companies, Blubrry hasn’t changed pricing for the last twenty years. Pricing will increase for most people by 25% from Oct 1 - you can buy an annual plan to lock in lower pricing for the next twelve months.(Inflation in the US over the last twenty years has been 65%.)

• Linear TV ad revenue has dropped by more than a quarter in the last ten years. Linear TV now represents just 12.4% of all global ad spend, says an article by WARC.

• The Governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear has struck a podcast deal with SiriusXM. The Democrat has run a podcast since April, called Andy Beshear Podcast.

• In the UK, the return of the Political Podcast Awards has been announced, sponsored by YouTube. You can enter now; there’s a new category for Student Podcast of the year. Anthony Scaramucci is confirmed as a speaker.

• The full winners list of the Asia Podcast Awards 2025 has been published.

• The public beta for video in Wonda, Wondercraft’s AI creation tool, will be available on Oct 15. The service will use premium AI models and will contain a complete editing suite.

• John Wordock plays with AI for the Summertime Podcast Blues

Tips and tricks - with Patreon

• There are lots of podcast directories to submit to - not just Apple and Spotify. Here’s a big list of them all.

Podcast News

In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, we interview a ton of people at Podcast Day Asia earlier this week, and also chat with Barry from Podhome about the company’s brand new podcast app.

A new investigative podcast is launched today. Everything They Missed reopens the conviction of Andrew Hayes in Memphis, Tennessee, who was sentenced to life for murder: but newly uncovered pacemaker data, phone and cell-tower records all point to someone else entirely.