WTF - an award at The Ambies

• The Podcast Academy announced that the first-ever Governors Award at The Ambies will be awarded to the independent podcast WTF with Marc Maron. Marc Maron and co-creator and EP Brendan McDonald will accept the accolade during the awards on May 16.

• Libsyn has acquired Glow, a podcast membership monetisation platform, for $1.2m. In February, Libsyn acquired podcast production platform Auxbus and earlier this month acquired ad company AdvertiseCast.

  
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• Sounds Profitable, Podnews’s ad-tech newsletter, has announced Up Next - the first-ever podcast format UpFront designed to promote new titles from publishers. Already with six partners, it’s open for more.

• Audioboom has signed a further two year commercial partnership with ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia; a distribution deal with True Crime Obsessed; and a development deal with the Obsessed Network.

  
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• Evergreen Podcasts has launched the company’s Q2/21 slate of podcasts, featuring gambling and pop culture. Also launched is the Q2/21 slate from CBC Podcasts, including a true crime series about a mysterious death of a cryptocurrency executive.

• The Australian Podcast Ranker was released for March. The highest new entry was The Sure Thing, a true crime podcast from Nine’s Australian Financial Review. It lists participating publishers only; the ABC, the country’s largest podcast publisher, isn’t there.

• Spotify is identifying and correcting incorrect podcast language tags.

• Mckay Murphy has been appointed as Supporting Cast's first ever Director of Growth & Marketing. She previously managed growth at Stitcher Premium, Stitcher’s in-app subscription service.

  
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• Podnews podcast pages, like this for Darknet Diaries, now include a link to Podcast Republic’s app on Android. (That app shows their subscriber numbers, incidentally).

• A little bit of history: Podcast Machine is a podcast host from 2008, promising “a flash player for your website”, and that it’s “made for iTunes”. But it’s a little bit of the present, too - it still hosts more than a thousand podcasts on Apple Podcasts, 31 of which have been updated so far this year.

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Tips and tricks - with Podcast Day 24

• Why your podcast needs show notes - this article is actually about 'episode notes’, but we’ll let them off; Kristi Jacobsen lists SEO benefits and valuable resources for listeners as some of the benefits.

• How to earn Bitcoin from your podcast, if you feel techie enough!

Podcast News

The Joe Rogan Experience has a new studio set. More wood, less tube train.

GOATS: On The Bump is new today from Jam Street Media. Hosted by Blue Jays’ pitcher Ross Stripling, it discusses the Hall of Fame careers of some of the greatest pitchers to ever play MLB.

Soul of a Nation: Tulsa’s Buried Truth launched last week. Written and hosted by ABC News Senior National Correspondent Steve Osunsami, it focuses on a brutal racially-motivated attack in Tulsa OK, USA, one hundred years ago. Episode 2 publishes today.