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• Spotify has reportedly made changes to its podcast leadership team. On the content side, Sahar Elhabashi is now Head of Podcast Business and will report to Alex Norström; Maya Prohovnik, pictured above, is now Head of Podcast Product and will report to Gustav Söderström.
• Pushkin Industries is said to have laid off "a handful of employees" this week.
• Covered by Podnews on Jan 18, Libsyn has officially announced Libsyn Connect, a browser-based remote recording tool, and a number of other creator offerings, at Podfest in Orlando.

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• Remote recording tool Riverside has released a comprehensive report on the future of video podcasting for brands. 38% of consumers prefer YouTube as a podcast player, the company has found.
• UK advertising spend rose in Q3/22 by 4.3%.
• A San Francisco meditation company, which was described as a criminal cult in a BBC podcast, has failed in an attempt to sue for libel. A similar claim by an individual practitioner, Rachel Cherwitz, has been allowed to proceed. The case continues.
• UK newspaper The Guardian has been accused of institutional racism by a number of podcast producers.
• The RØDECaster Pro II has new firmware, v1.1.1, which adds advanced sub-mixing and a number of other enhancements.

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• Co-founder and CTO of Acast, Johan Billgren, has stepped down and will leave the business. "Now it's time for me to focus on my family and friends, before the next adventure."
• Available: One of Ellen Schweikert's biggest clients has moved their marketing in-house. "I write podcast show notes, blog posts, teaser emails and social content," she says, linking us to her portfolio.

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• "I booked over $120,000 in revenue with podcast ads in 2 years. Here's how I grew and monetized my show." - an interview in Business Insider with Jay Clouse (host of Creative Elements).

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• From editaudio: editaudio: On The Road SXSW "A traveling podcast sharing the thoughts, feelings, anecdotes and advice collected from the attendees who stopped by our mobile sound booth at Blk Pod Festival Atlanta.
• The Podnews Weekly Review this week includes an interview with Jack Davenport, the co-founder and Managing Director of Goalhanger Podcasts, responsible for some of the UK's biggest shows like The Rest Is Politics. We also hear James's views on the stock market and Spotify's layoffs, and Sam calculates the average salary for a Spotify employee. It's sponsored by Buzzsprout.
• Pod Chat - Insights and Trends from Podcast Experts has Sam Sethi as a guest this week. Sam and host Danny Brown talk about the emergence of podcast-first radio, why ads and sponsorship levels will drop in a big way in 2023, why Spotify are stuck in a revenue crisis they created themselves, and why Value for Value is the future for podcast monetisation and creator/audience relationships.
• Clever is one of a number of podcasts that has joined the SURROUND Podcast Network. It features podcasts showcasing leading voices, topics, and trends in the architecture and design industry, and is one of two content networks from SANDOW Design Group.
• The new episode of Drink Champs, out today, is the first to be published under Interval Presents, the podcast network from Warner Music Group. We're told: "In this episode the Champs chop it up with My Expert Opinion! Math Hoffa, Mr. Mecc, Sean Bigga & Michael Smith-Baker talk careers, battle rap and much more!!! Make some noise!!! 📣📣📣!!!"
• Productivity Puzzles has returned for a new season. From The Productivity Institute, it provides insights from the latest research on UK productivity issues and solutions. It was made by Manchester's Cue Podcasts.

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• Podcast downloads increased by 20% last year, says Triton Digital in the company's first US Year-End Podcast Report (pdf). Listeners downloaded 5.6 episodes a week on average, representing 3.8 hours of content.
• Podcasts are doing just fine, says Acast's Podchaser. "While the biggest players in the podcast industry have expanded and contracted wildly over the past few years, the podcasting middle class has quietly and consistently grown." Yesterday, we highlighted that the "80% drop in new podcasts" headlines were wide of the mark.
• The fast-growing Everything Everywhere Daily podcast, hosted by Gary Arndt, has been acquired by Glassbox Media. That brings Glassbox's listenership to over ten million downloads a month.

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• City, University of London has announced the UK’s first dedicated MA in Podcasting and a Centre of Podcasting Excellence. Students will be taught by podcast professionals who've worked at The Guardian, the BBC, Bauer Media, the New York Times and 6foot6 Productions.
• The full schedule for Podcast Movement Evolutions is now live; the event is in Las Vegas in early March. Meanwhile, The Podcast Show 2023 in London is selling passes at an early bird price, saving 35% for May's event.
• Podcast hosting company Blubrry has released support for "value4value", a way to accept online payments from podcast listeners in apps like Fountain, Castamatic and Podverse. The company has partnered with Alby. With more than 100,000 shows using Blubrry, this is the biggest podcast host so far to natively support value4value. The company will release further support for the new podcast namespace next week.
• Behind a paywall, The Information posts an article about Patreon, used by many podcasters (including Podnews) for support. All is not well, the article suggests: bits of it are readable via the author's twitter.
• Pinecast founder Matt Basta writes a piece accusing Apple Podcasts of "trapping" creators, based on one podcaster who apparently used Apple Podcasts as a hosting platform.
• Edison Research has highlighted the "most efficient" podcasts in different regions of the US.
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• From editaudio: Mina AF with Mina Starsiak Hawk Mina Starsiak-Hawke of HGTV’s Good Bones answers listener questions and hosts candid chats with guests about the things we’re often embarrassed to think about or feel.
• Latina to Latina is celebrating reaching 2 million downloads. Since its launch in 2018, the podcast has released nearly 250 episodes of conversations with luminaries in the arts, politics, business and technology.
• Only 2% of general contractors in the construction business are women; GirlFlip is a new podcast launching today with entrepeneur Erica Anenberg which highlights the stories of influential women in traditional ‘male’ roles or workplaces. It's produced by UBNGo.
• What happens when the watchdog tasked with overseeing the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country doesn’t do its job? Bad Watchdog is new today from the Project On Government Oversight in the US, uncovering a a shocking pattern of misconduct at the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General.
• Almost everyone who has taken a vacation or a trip knows that things don’t always go exactly as planned. In Welcome to Paradise (It Sucks), Andrew Tate interviews real people about their harrowing vacation stories. If you’ve ever missed a flight, or got on the wrong train, or wound up in a sleazy motel room that wasn’t the one you booked, this is the podcast for you.
• The War on Drugs has been launched by Lava for Good Podcasts. The podcast examines the true cost of five decades of the failed US “War on Drugs,” which culminated in a staggering 101,000 drug overdose deaths in the past year alone.
• A critically-acclaimed, pioneering dual-language podcast La Brega returns today for a new season, looking at the music of Puerto Rico. The series employs a variety of formats: personal essays, storytelling, documentary reportage — to show how the themes and lyrics used in each composition reflect the resonance of those ideas today: colonialism, race, feminism, immigration, LGBTQ+ issues, and more.
• Former CNN anchor and journalist Carol Costello is working with Evergreen Podcasts for Carol Costello Presents: Blind Rage - focusing this season on the attack of Phyllis Cottle, who was blinded by her assailant. Costello says: “Her story is tragic, but that's not her full story. Her life in her words, ‘had a purpose’ after she escaped her attacker.”

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• The number of new podcasts has dramatically dropped by 80% in two years, according to data reported this week. Except… as we explore today in a deep-dive article, that data point doesn't tell the whole story. In fact, podcasting is in a much better place once you understand what that number is really measuring.
• In Sounds Profitable, learn Tom Webster's three favourite data points from his research last year.
• Rephonic has launched a free tool to embed podcast reviews on your website. The tool pulls reviews from a number of platforms including Apple Podcasts, Castbox and Podchaser. Get started here (and enjoy the example).

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• Spotify has partnered with Pod Live Sport for the UK's first Sports Podcast Festival. It's on Feb 8-12 in London.
• Spotify's layoffs yesterday included some people at Podsights and Chartable, says The Verge. (We'd be happy to highlight those looking for new roles - editor@podnews.net).
• Auphonic has launched an AutoEQ feature in beta. There are some examples in their announcement post.
• Audio-editor-like-a-word-doc Trebble has added a number of new features, allowing you to download transcripts and correct mistakes in them.

Tips and tricks

• Podcast Marketing Strategies for 2023 from Podcastpage obviously starts with making a website (which - hey! - they can help with), but also talks about using podcast guests, socials, repurposing and getting the right name.

Podcast News

• From editaudio: editaudio: On The Road SXSW A traveling podcast sharing the thoughts, feelings, anecdotes and advice collected from the attendees who stopped by our mobile sound booth at the SXSW Creative Industries Expo.
• Bill Schultz, Executive VP of Content at Cadence 13, is the guest for Trailblazers: A Megatrax Podcast for Sound Media Professionals. Bill works with a team of content creators and influencers to develop, produce, and monetize on-demand audio content covering many genres, including political, sports, comedy, lifestyle, documentary, and true-crime.
• Launching today from Colorado Public Radio, Terra Firma is a new short-form podcast pairing reflections on nature with soundscapes gathered in wild places.
• The latest guest on Making Creativity Pay is Podnews's Editor, talking to Dan Barnett about making podcasting pay, including advertising and value 4 value - and the concept of sustainable creativity.
• Presented by the International Tennis Hall of Fame, TennisWorthy seeks to uncover what it takes to become the greatest of champions. The first episode is out today, featuring 2022 International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee Lleyton Hewitt. It's hosted by tennis journalist Chris Bowers.

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• Spotify has announced that almost 600 people (6%) will be laid off. It's unclear which locations or divisions are affected. Daniel Ek announced in a memo that Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff is to leave the company; "Alex [Norström] will take on the responsibility for the content, advertising and licensing work going forward".
  • We also note that Spotify's careers website has removed all open positions, except for internships.
  • For more on the garbage truck, see below.
• Buzzsprout has announced a podcast subscriptions tool. You can choose from recurring support, or premium content only available to your supporters; the company takes a fee of 15%. The Podnews Weekly Review has added the opportunity to become a PoWeR supporter if you'd like to see it at work.
• The top spender in podcast advertising last month was Betterhelp, who spent an estimated $9.1m according to new data from Magellan AI. JP Morgan Chase, a US bank, was the biggest new spender, spending $1.3m.

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• New podcast app Fountain and payment provider Zebedee have announced a partnership to enable pay-per-minute streaming for podcasts. Podcasters can earn money as listeners pay what they want to listen to shows. You can top up using Apple Pay, Google Pay, or a credit card (and support Podnews Daily that way).
• Media company Global has published a report into news podcasting. It promises to explain "why news podcasts are proving so popular, how they stack up against other news formats, and the best way to ensure success with a podcast ad campaign".
• Transom is wanting to feature one-off, short passion projects. Producers will get a fee, distribution and editorial support; and retain the rights to their work. You've until Feb 24 to apply.
• Larry Wilmore, a comedian and host of Black on the Air, is to host the 2023 Podcast Academy Awards.
• ny-governor-cuomo-starts-ad-free-podcast-co.html?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-01-24">Former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo has launched a podcast company. Quake Media will reportedly rely on Apple Podcasts subscriptions for revenue, not advertising.

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• Podcast industry veteran Jay Green has joined Soundrise as Senior Vice President of Strategy & Operations.. He was at Audacy's Cadence13. Lovlyn Corbett moves from Kantar to become the new Director of National Accounts.
• Brittany Bernardo has been named as Senior Director of Revenue and Sales Strategy at True Native Media. She was Director of Podcast Sales at iHeartPodcast Network.

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• From editaudio: More Right Than Wrong Angie Lee and Rachel Yoo explore the tensions that women often face in the modern workplace in conversation with creative leaders from across industries.
• A new show from the BBC, Buried, has revealed what could be one of the country's biggest environmental crimes in history: dumping almost a million tonnes of waste, some now toxic, near a drinking water supply in Northern Ireland. It was produced by Smoke Trail Productions and launched yesterday.
• Where's the oddest place you've had an interview? Sauna Sessions, new today, features filmmaker, speaker and curator Prince EA joined by special guests in an infrared sauna to have longform conversations focused on the mind, body and spirit. “As we detox our bodies we will also detoxify the BS in the world and get to the truth about how our audience can REALLY be healthy, happy and connected.”
• From a completely indie podcaster, Growing Joy with Plants has generated over 2 million downloads (50-60K/month), a Webby Honoree, features in the NYT, Washington Post and Refinery29, and got a book deal with Macmillan. The show, hosted by Maria Failla, helps people care for plants successfully and cultivate more joy in their lives by connecting with plants and nature.
• Adelita: Changing the Key is new today from iHeartMedia's My Cultura podcast network and Sonoro, and features actor Diane Guerrero and chronicles the culturally rich coming-of-age story of an audacious Tejana singer (played and sung by Guerrero) who seeks to cross over to pop stardom in the U.S. and in doing so, leaves her Tejano music roots behind.
• Over the weekend, Spotify Original Toni and Ryan invited listeners to ceremoniously throw their boyfriend’s holey undies and garish Christmas sweaters in the garbage truck, grab a free coffee or gelato, and meet the partners in grime themselves. The branded garbage truck was in St Kilda in Melbourne VIC, Australia. Clothes were donated to charity; ryan-garbage.mp4">here's their social ad (contains swears and a bum joke), and below, another picture of the garbage truck lest you think we made it up.

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• The New Zealand Podcast Summit has announced its second year's sessions. An annual hui for Aotearoa’s podcasting community, this year it's scheduled for Saturday May 13 in Auckland. Speakers will include RNZ's Tim Watkin, the Head of Funding at NZ On Air, Amie Mills, and The Spinoff's head of podcasts, Jane Yee. Tickets are available.
• Seven audio workers have been laid off by Vox Media, reports Vox Media's Hot Pod, including the team producing Cover Story. Vox Media declined to give exact figures. Around 130 people were laid off in total, or 7% of the workforce. Spotify is also to cut staff this week, according to Bloomberg.
  • Elsewhere, Google cut 12,000 jobs (6%), joining Microsoft's 10,000 layoffs (5%), Facebook's 11,000 (13%), Salesforce's 8,000 (10%), and Twitter's 3,700 (50%).
• Data: Prisa Audio made its first Up Front presentation on Friday. The company claims it is the world's second-largest audio streaming company, and ranks #1 in the Spanish language. The release contains a number of data points; its ad revenue grew 43% over the previous year.

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• Data: In Germany, the media.de/marktdaten/audiomarkt/ma-podcast/?tab=0&utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-01-23">AGMA Podcast ranker for December was released (media.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/Forschung/Radioforschung/Anlage_zur_ma_Podcast-Dezember_2022.pdf?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-01-23">pdf). Zeit Online's Was Jetzt (What Now?), a news podcast which published 82 episodes in December, is #1 with 6.8m downloads; comedy show Baywatch Berlin, which released four shows, is at #2 with 5.7m. Participating publishers only.
• In the Netherlands, news from Lieven Heeremans about a fund for audio production from the public broadcaster NPO: which was to disappear, and fonds.nl/nieuws/publieke-omroep-vernieuwt-werkwijze-npo-fonds-vanaf-begin-2023#content?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net:2023-01-23">now isn't, kind of.
• Congratulations to African podcasting group Pod Break for reaching your first year anniversary.
• On Twitter: "I made a needle felt collage of all my favourite podcasts yesterday and I think they’re pretty smart"
• Further reading:
  • Janan Ganesh writes for the FT: Podcasts aren’t as smart as you think (paywalled): "But people are starting to conflate [the podcast] with the hard grind of learning. At worst, they substitute it for reading."
  • Vanessa Thorpe writes for The Guardian: Can BBC radio thrive in a new world of podcasts? on a defection of a presenter to a commercial rival (something our Editor has also blogged about)
  • Alexi Duggins writes for The Guardian about The rise of the child podcast superstars, featuring four podcasters aged 13 or younger.
  • Tyler Aquilina writes in Variety that "podcast exclusivity is quickly becoming an outdated strategy" - "it will be increasingly difficult for any but the most popular podcasts to claim a sizable chunk of the ad dollars available. Creators will therefore need to maximize ad revenue as much as possible, and limiting their potential audience through an exclusive distribution model will be increasingly untenable."

The Tech Stuff

• Want your podcast appearing in Fountain's activity feed? Add a split to your Fountain address in your value block, and then it can see all your boosts, not just those made on Fountain. Change your username in this URL for the details.
  • While we did the above, we also added Podcast Index as a 1% split.
• A "high performance" port of OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition tool for Apple silicon. Also runs on iOS.
• If you do a live podcast, are you LIT? The live item tag will give your podcast listeners a notification when your show is being broadcast live. Here's a blog post explaining a little more, from the point of view of a radio station.

Podcast News

• from editaudio: Date With Daddy An experimental audio journey hosted by queer events producer Marisa Grant. Marisa takes listeners on dates as Daddy, where both Daddy and the listener explore and learn more about themselves.
• The Slowdown has a new host, the award-winning poet and writer Major Jackson. The show shared a selected poem and thoughtful reflection every weekday, and was previously hosted by Ida Limón. It's produced by American Public Media in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.
• Launched in Feb 2021, the San Diego News Fix has published its last episode.
• Behind every catfish, there’s the bait. Love, Janessa is a new true crime podcast from the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts. Produced by Antica Productions and Telltale Industries, it launches today, telling the story of an unwitting human face of a digital con.
• Project Brazen and PRX have released The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome - an investigative podcast looking at a debilitating and confounding illness in the Cuban US embassy. What caused it? Could it be caused by noisy crickets? Or mosquito spray? Or could it all be a mass delusion?

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