The Young Audio Awards return for 2022

• Do you know anyone under 18 making audio in the UK? The Young Audio Awards is for them: they’ve until mid February to enter. Winners are offered a chance to host their own show on a national radio station, along with mentorship, masterclass events and state-of-the-art audio recording equipment.

• Blubrry has posted its data for 2021. Their top podcast for the year is the Lex Fridman Podcast, with Hungarian-language podcast A hétköznapok kapaszkodói at #4. Apple Podcasts is the #1 platform, and 55.3% of all downloads went to US listeners.

• iHeart’s Premiere Networks has launched the Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network, promising a slate of podcasts focused on the paranormal, supernatural and unexplained.

• Here’s every podcast directory to get your podcast into.

Tips and tricks

• Spotify doesn’t support chapters - but here’s how to do chapters in Spotify. Kind of.

• Here’s how to do a great interview, from Richard Horsman, a media trainer and former news editor.

Moves and hires - with Pod People

• Want a new challenge in the new year? You’ll want Podjobs, where there are always great jobs in podcasting to be seen.

Podcast News - with Memberful

Pizza - a deceptively simple food, but one that has enough history to fill 1,700 pages of a book: and now, Modernist Pizza Podcast takes the book’s co-authors and learns more about every part of pizza - from flour, sauce, and cheese, to its roots and the evolution of regional styles.

The Hackers looks at a history of hacking and phreaking in a series of bitesize shows from BBC Radio 4. We listened to Phreaks, following people who discovered how to get free phone calls with just a little blue box. Hosted by Gabriella Coleman, who’d have thought that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were both phone phreaks?