WNYC is 100 years old today

• Happy 100th birthday, WNYC. The New York radio station went on air from the Municipal Building, above, on Jul 8 1924 at 8.54pm. There will be a re-enactment of that first broadcast at 8.54pm tonight, and the Empire State Building will be bathed in WNYC red this evening. There is special programming throughout the month, and the station is looking for New York stories. It produces a number of popular podcasts including On The Media and Radiolab.

• Podtrac released its ranker for June 2024. Each top 5 is unchanged, though almost everyone saw a drop in consumption. The New York Times is no longer listed as a US publisher, though The Daily remains the most listened-to podcast. The ranker measures participating publishers only.

• Traditional ad agencies are “creating wastage for advertisers and jarring ads for audiences“, says a new podcast advertising agency. EarMax Media launched last week in Sydney NSW, Australia.

• 45% of Australian podcast listeners listen to true crime podcasts, according to a study from On Device. The results suggest 53% of Australians listen to podcasts each month, compared to 55% in Singapore and 61% in the UK.

• In the UK, Fresh Air has launched Fresh Air Media, an audio strategy and promotional service.

• Life Story Recordings are highlighted in a story from the BBC about companies that record long interviews with relatives, as a unique keep-sake.

• In Ireland, Acast has signed Crime World and The BelTel, two major podcasts, as part of a year-long partnership.

• Stephen Robles looks at Apple Podcasts vs Pocket Casts. Pocket Casts “wins on almost every level”, he says.

• EarBuds this week is curated by Latif Nasser, the co-host of Radiolab. The subject? Five podcast episodes about our solar system.

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• Hoy En El País is now measured by OP3. Some episodes are doing almost 500,000 downloads. (You should be measuring your show with OP3, too).

• This email should now be in dark mode, on iOS at least, if you’re using dark mode on your device. No more seared retinas. Please let us know if bits look weird.

• Could your podcast grow faster if it’s dubbed into different languages? We played with Wondercraft AI all this week. Wondercraft AI has a feature called “dubs” - you upload your audio of you reading something and it will dub it into another language - using your voice. Here is our daily podcast in French, in Japanese, in Danish, in Dutch, and in Arabic (including a clip of a guest, too). If you speak any of those languages, we’d be curious to hear your comments.

Moves and hires

• Clair Weaver has been appointed Head of Factual for LiSTNR.

• Not a hire, but definitely a move: the School of Podcasting’s Dave Jackson managed to do himself quite the injury, while walking fast and fiddling with his phone at the same time. Here’s the blog post about it but it’s not for the squeamish. His phone is fine, though, thanks for asking. Heal quick, Dave!

Tips and tricks

• Where to pay to advertise your podcast? The Podcast Host lists a ton of places to find new listeners. Including our classifieds!

Podcast News

Start Here from ABC News published the network’s big exclusive interview with President Joe Biden that aired on television Friday night. The bonus episode pushed the daily news program into the top charts on Apple Podcasts and Spotify over the weekend. There’ll be extensive analysis of the interview in this morning’s episode, they say.

Around the NFL has been cancelled. No reason was given. It was produced with iHeartMedia.

In a recent episode of The Rest Is Entertainment, Marina Hyde and Richard Osman discuss the difference between podcasts and TV shows. It’s quite a decent explanation, and is a good listen.

Defending Democracy with Malcolm Turnbull returns for a new season. The former Australian Prime Minister examines the US elections, truth, and the rule of law. Can America, and the world, survive a second term of Donald Trump?

In New Zealand, The Good Sex Project returns for a new season today. The show aims to normalise conversations about sex and relationships through expert insights and real-life stories. The first two episodes are out today.