Get ready for listeners to unwrap Spotify's 2023 Wrapped

• Spotify’s 2023 Wrapped is coming this holiday-time… the feature lets listeners share their favourite podcasts of 2023 — including yours. Spotify wants you to ensure that your show page is ready, with recommendations, links to your social media, and other tools to get the most out of it.

• Put more ads in a podcast ad break and they perform less well, says a new study from Ad Results Media.

• Headliner’s Eddy is now available in more than ten languages. The tool lets you edit audio as if it was a word document.

• Germany’s public service broadcaster ARD/ZDF has published a look at media consumption in the country. Podcast consumption is 5% of all time spent with audio, the research says, decreasing slightly from last year.

  • Meanwhile, YouGov Germany also published data looking at “Podheads”, the 14% of Germans who listen to more than five hours of podcasting a week.

• Hark Daily is celebrating its 500th edition today. It’s a show that shares the most interesting conversations, stories and ideas from podcasts, and is available within the Hark podcast discovery app.

• Caloroga Shark Media is celebrating Monster Mash Monday across its network of shows today. The short-form podcast network calls it a 'world podcasting first’.

  • You can read a full interview with Mark Francis and John McDermott from Caloroga Shark Media in the Podcast Business Journal.

• Variety writes How Wondery Brought Studio-Style Scale to Podcasting.

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• A lot of podcast analytics and ad targeting is based on the IP address of the listener; but Google is preparing to test a new feature in Chrome that “allows users to hide their IP addresses by using proxy servers”. It also heavily promotes its own VPN as a paid-for service, which also hides a user’s IP address.

• There’s a new endpoint to the Podcast Index API to allow developers to get value timesplits by episode. Here’s a typical result from Boostagram Ball.

• AntennaPod is working on supporting subtitles and transcripts in the popular Android app, and has reviewed the way other podcast apps do it.

Podcast News

Walk the Pod is celebrating a three year anniversary - and total downloads of more than 30,000 - by releasing a new season. The new series will focus on burnout, an increasingly common issue that host Rachel Wheeley walks to address, step-by-step.

The Opportunist has been signed by PodcastOne, including the 71 episode archive. The company has acquired IP rights for potential tv/film use. The podcast was with Kast Media.

Pop Crime is new from Betches Media - Kiki Monique combines her two true loves – pop culture and true crime – into a cocktail of scandalous storytelling. Each week, she makes sense of the messiest celebrity legal drama, infamous crimes of the past, and dirty deeds of the rich and famous.

Mystery of Everything is new today - a new show from the makers of History of Everything, but more mysterious and unexplained. The show is brand new on the Airwave Podcast Network.