Trixie Mattel to host The Ambies

• Trixie Mattel has been announced as the host of The Ambies, the Awards for Excellence in Audio. They’ll take place on Mar 26 at the JW Marriott LA Live, as well as online.

  • Malcolm Gladwell will be given the Governors Award for the compelling influence he’s had on the industry. And the awards will honour pop-culture podcaster, Ira Madison III with the Impact Award, which recognizes an individual or podcast that has made a significant, positive effect on its listeners.

• Exclusive: Football media company COPA90 has selected Message Heard as its new global partner for audio. COPA90 reaches more than 70mn fans across the world; Message Heard will work on original co-productions with the company.

• True crime shows aren’t getting their fair share of podcast ad revenue, in spite of being one of the most popular genres, and skewing younger and more female. IAB Australia has released an excellent report looking at the genre, how it performs for advertising, how to write the best creative for it, and why brand-safety tools might be letting this genre down.

• Wondercraft - “Canva for audio” - won product of the day at Product Hunt.

• Descript has released v84, including a new AI action called “Find all highlights”.

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• Podster has made a distribution deal in Denmark with Saxo, the country’s largest online book retailer. Saxo’s audio and book streaming service will now carry a variety of Podster’s shows.

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Moves and hires

• PR and podcast veteran Phil Lanides has launched a new company, Crossfire Consulting, providing podcasting production and PR for B2B brands. The company will help produce shows, including guest sourcing, interview questions and script editing, as well as promoting those shows, including press release writing and pitching.

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• Headliner’s suggestion for growing your podcast audience is to, er, use Headliner: but it isn’t quite as self-serving as you might think; the company’s advice is really to focus on something more than a static image when sharing.

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Podcast News - with Airwave

From Airwave: Want today’s biggest tech headlines in a flash from TechCrunch? You’ll want the TechCrunch Daily Crunch - recently, they’ve covered Elon Musk suing OpenAI, Microsoft Windows 11's Copilot, and Tim Apple promising that Apple is doing something clever with GenAI.

Unpacking Peanuts will celebrate its 100th episode today. The show features three cartoonists discussing the work of Charles Schulz, and looks at the strip’s impact on the medium and the world.

The Bitch Bible is now with PodcastOne, joining from Dear Media. It’s the 27th show added to PodcastOne’s network this fiscal year. The show, hosted by Jackie Schimmel, will start to produce video elements and make additional shows.

Alice Vassallo’s podcast about animals isn’t called that, but we probably can’t tell you what it is called here without you never getting our emails again. Anyway, it’s not, really, a BBC nature documentary, since it sets out to shame those animals who aren’t really very nice. Though Alice, who is a zookeeper and a comedian, is probably a bit nicer than the animals.

Nordic Crimes is new today from Nils Bergman, the creator of Rättegångspodden, Sweden’s largest commercial podcast - but this new series will be in English, looking at crimes across the five Nordic countries. From Acast, the first season will look at Finland’s criminal history from the 1970s to the present day.

Dios, Patria, Yunque is a Spanish-language podcast that has taken more than a year to investigate - a secret far-right cult called El Yunque that was born in Mexico in the 1920s, but has now grown and is gaining power in Spain. It’s releasing a new episode every Monday until April.

The Value 4 Value show has just started season four; the show examines the technological trends of the the last 30 years, and why Kyrin Down, the host, believes this is driving us towards the V4V model, rather than advertising or subscriptions. He speaks to voice actors, graphic designers and musicians who also believe in Value 4 Value.

Women of Web3 Podcast starts season four today. Hosted by Lauren Ingram, it aims to showcase careers in AI and Web3, so that women don’t get left behind in the next iteration of the internet. Previous guests include Martha Lane Fox and Randi Zuckerberg, and today’s episode features the founder of Boss Beauties, an NFT project turned media brand which has partnered with Mattel and scored funding from Serena Williams’s venture fund.