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• Sounds Profitable’s Tom Webster has launched a book. The Audience Is Listening: A Little Guide to Building a Big Podcast is not a book telling you how to make a podcast (“you know how to do that”), and instead, tells you how to make your podcast better.
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• Acast released its Q2 2024 financial report. Net sales grew by 24% year-on-year to SEK 477.9 mn (US $44mn), driven by North America and Europe; total listens dropped 15% y-on-y to 1,104 mn after the changes in Apple’s iOS 17. The figures are described as “another step closer to profitability”.
  • Earlier this week, Audioboom published its eCPM (revenue per 1,000 downloads) of $60.09. For comparison, we calculate Acast’s average eCPM is $39.63.

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• British podcast company Persephonica is to move its headquarters to Sheffield. The company makes some of the biggest shows in the country, and its move to South Yorkshire will help develop podcasting talent in the region.
• In Dubai, the Al Arabiya Network has launched a new global Arab language podcast network called Mazeej.
• Wondercraft is to unveil a new interface on Aug 5. There’s an email in your inbox if you’re a Wondercraft user with more info.
• Bloomberg has published a profile of Joe Rogan, and his move to Austin TX, including his comedy club The Mothership.

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• Zai Bennett will be the new CEO and Chief Creative Officer for BBC Studios Productions His remit will span the company’s UK and international production units. He’s currently Managing Director of Content for Sky.
• Jimmy Buckland has been named Strategy and Operations Director for News UK’s broadcasting division. He has worked for the company, which owns talkSPORT, Times Radio, Virgin Radio UK and other channels, since 2009.
• Kacey Spivey has been annnounced as the Director of Podcasts at Pionaire, a talent-first boutique podcast agency. She comes from YEA Networks. Pionaire has also signed additional creators.

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• Game Over: c*ncer sheds light on the realities of childhood cancer, and aims to bridge the gap in childhood cancer awareness. It's new from the Cannonball Kids’ cancer Foundation.
• Club Random with Bill Maher has been added to Studio71's podcast network, for increased advertising and growth opportunities. Studio71 will also support the launch of new podcasts produced under the Club Random Studios banner.
• Karen is new from Wondery; it's from the Law&Crime true crime network, and is exclusive to Wondery+ (in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery+ app).
• Makes You Wonder is new this weekend from Wondercraft's Oskar Serrander, who examines the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence, exploring the good, the bad, and how it hinders and enables our creative, human pursuits. The show is hosted on Acast.
• As the Paris Olympics get ready to start this weekend, Flashpoint is new from Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts, looking at Eric Rudolph, the person who bombed the Atlanta games in 1996, and who remained on the run until 2003. The podcast hears the stories of Rudolph's victims, and his lasting impact.
• In Case You Missed It with Khristina Williams is new from iHeartMedia, breaking down the biggest stories in women’s basketball.
• The Dr Hilary Show was launched earlier this week. Hosted by Dr Hilary Jones, a UK "media medic", the show will include the latest health news and famous guests. His first guest is Piers Morgan, the former newspaper editor and CNN presenter.
• Alongside the adblocking podcast app, the Podnews Weekly Review this week also includes an interview with Manan Bhalodia, who has developed customisable daily AI generated podcasts called "Quickies". Just want the full-length interviews, and less James and Sam? Find Podnews Extra in your podcast app.

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• Signal Hill Insights looks at The Listening and Consumer Habits of the Black (US) Podcast Audience, suggesting that the audience has grown 10% over the past year; and that they’re more likely to choose Sports, Music and Religion/Spirituality shows.
• Spotify announced a major update to its self-serve ad platform, Spotify Ad Studio - and a new name, now called Spotify Ads Manager. There are new ad formats and measurement tools, as well as a redesign.
• The British Podcast Awards announced the nominations for the 2024 awards. The winners will be announced on Sep 26 in central London, hosted by Marcus Brigstocke. The awards had over a thousand entries.

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• Sports podcasting is booming in the UK, says PressGazette. The article quotes YouTube views, which are public.
• Microsoft Research is demonstrating a tool it calls GraphRAG, which (in part) uses podcast transcripts to produce a “knowledge-graph” of a podcast, making it easier to search. The website contains a short demo and an arXiv paper.
• Google announced it is no longer planning to block third-party cookies in Chrome. Podcasts don’t use cookies; but podcasts do use IP addresses, which are increasingly hidden with VPNs, Apple’s Private Relay, and other tools. Google is suggesting it will hide IP addresses from Chrome next year.
• Magellan AI has announced support for UID2 and ID5, to help advertisers measure their campaigns. Replacing things like cookies and IP tracking, UID2 and ID5 are centrally-administered personal identifiers, which allow advertisers to recognise individuals and serve them targeted ads.

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• Micah Loewinger has been named as the co-host of On The Media, alongside Brooke Gladstone. He had been guest-host for a while. Former co-host Bob Garfield was garfield-on-the-media.html?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-07-25">fired in 2021 over bullying complaints.

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• The first episode of Politickin’ was released, with Gavin Newsom talking about Biden dropping out of the US presidential race and Trump's assassination attempt. It's hosted by Gavin Newsom, Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch, and Doug Hendrickson.
• Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast has signed a multi-year extension with SiriusXM's Earwolf. The show will also release archive episodes. Scott Aukerman, the host, is currently on a 30-city international tour.
• Perfect Day with Jessica Knappett is brand new from the comedian, actor and writer. Fascinated by how her famous friends manage their days, Knappett digs into her guests’ daily routines, bizarre habits, and most embarrassing moments as she explores how we spend our most precious resource: time.
• Prognosis: Misconception is a new season from Bloomberg focusing on the fertility industry. A Bloomberg News story was published alongside the podcast, which takes a deep dive into how problems in the IVF industry have fueled conservative, anti-abortion forces who argue we need to restrict the industry.
• A seventh season of American Masters: Creative Spark starts today from PBS. The show illuminates the creative journeys of artists and icons across disciplines – from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Jewel and Tony Award-winning actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker.

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• 2024-Shareholder-Deck-FINAL.pdf?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-07-24">Spotify published its Q2 2024 results. As part of a record high $297mn quarterly profit, the company reported improved podcast profitability, “driven by growth in impressions sold across Original and Licensed podcasts and the Spotify Audience Network”. The company says it has more than 6 million podcasts.
  • Spotify’s monthly active users grew 14% year-on-year, but missed targets by 5mn.
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• Audioboom Half-Year-Report.pdf?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-07-24">published its H1 2024 results. eCPM (revenue per 1,000 downloads) was up 38% in Q2. Revenue is up 7% in total, and adjusted EBITDA profit is $0.3mn.
  • CEO Stuart Last estimates that the changes in Apple’s iOS 17 update have cost them $9mn in revenue. Earlier in the year, Acast had put its iOS 17 costs at $7.2mn.
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• YouTube Music added the ability to mark a podcast as played earlier in the month. We also notice that in Australia, we now get a “podcasts” chip at the top of the screen; you can now auto-download shows; and there are ways of filtering episode lists to only show, for example, unplayed or downloaded episodes.
• Magellan AI shared its list of top (US) podcast advertisers for June. BetterHelp remains at #1; AI voice provider AudioStack is the newest “mover and shaker”, spending $1.7mn. Magellan AI has a short webinar on Thursday to discuss the results.
• FeaturedUp, a Q&A platform for podcasters, is to close. “We have not achieved the necessary growth in the podcast community to sustain our operations,” said founder Gurneet Paul in closure.png">an email to users.

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Daniel Ek on podcasts in Spotify

Question: Now that major podcasts are largely non-exclusive, how has podcasts engagement changed on Spotify as more of the industry shifts to video podcasts? How do you attract more creators and grow engagement versus a platform like YouTube?

Ek: First and foremost we are seeing very healthy engagement on podcasts. Where we have video podcasts, engagement is even higher than what we have seen when it's audio only, which is a really positive testament. This is also what organically creates word of mouth with creators. So we're seeing more and more creators now uploading video content too. We have about a quarter a million [video podcasts] already. Consumers of today don't really care too much about formats. They're actually moving in between of audio, video and even reading things very effortlessly, especially younger consumers. And so creators will obviously respond to that and should make their content available in as many formats as possible.

The way we attract more creators is a bucket of three things. So I think that the first bucket is things that are native to the Spotify platform. So things like podcasters already like musicians, those are sort of a prime bucket to convert and add more things because they'll see higher engagement and thereby higher monetization. Then I think there's a second bucket, which is if you're already uploading video to other platforms today, you've taken most of your costs already. So it makes a lot of sense for you to try to amortize that cost against as many platforms as possible. And you see this already where a lot of people on the short side are uploading not just to one platform but are uploading to many platforms. And we're starting to see some of that behavior happening on Spotify, too. And then I think lastly, there's things that will perform a lot better on the Spotify platform than perhaps on other platforms. For instance, longer form content tends to do really well on Spotify on video because people go back and forth between backgrounding and foregrounding. And that is something that works really well on Spotify because of our lean back history as a platform. So overall it's looking very nicely and with lots of improvement, of course, and more and more creators are coming to the platform each and every day.

People News

• Mark Kesman has been hired as SVP of Finance Strategy & Operations at Lemonada Media. He joins from Rooster Teeth.

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• Looking Forward: Opportunities for Job, Career, Business, and Investment Seekers has announced that it is to be aired on the Podcast Radio Network. The show focuses on global trends and opportunities, with tips from recognized experts on how people might capitalise on them.
• In Canadaland's COMMONS feed at the moment: an English translation of Radio France's award-winning podcast Inside Kabul - the story of two young Afghan women, Raha and Marwa, whose lives are forever changed when the Taliban comes to power. Over the course of a year, Raha and Marwa exchange and record hundreds of voice notes with noted journalist Caroline Gillet. What emerges is a raw and incredibly intimate chronicle of two young women coming of age amidst the collapse of the world they had known. It's the first show that Canadaland has licensed in this way.
• The We Society returned for a new season earlier this month from the UK's Academy of Social Science. Hosted by Will Hutton, the show features big ideas from the world of Social Science on issues such as education, drug reform and young carers. Perfect listening for a new Labour government, you'd think.
• Compelled officially turns 6 years old today. The show has released 82 episodes spread across 1.7 million downloads and is focused on amazing true-life testimonies from Christians around the world. To celebrate, they launched Season 8 with the story of a survivor from the Rwandan Genocide (he was 5 years old when his family was murdered a few feet away from him).
• Rock ’n Roll Birder launches today, attempting to prove that some people interested in birdwatching are cooler than you think. Hosted by Matt and Sarah Spracklen, the show goes out in the elements visiting beauty spots and nature reserves across the UK where the birds are always the stars of the show; with expert guests, too.
• And from Spotify, a thrilling new episode of Spotify Earnings Call Replays was released. Hosted by Daniel and Ben, the episode focuses on a mysterious drop in expected MAUs in early 2024 - even as profits hit an all-time high. Who is to blame? Who is the man called Bryan who talks about a safe harbor? What even is a safe harbor? And what legendary beast is it keeping the ships safe from?

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• Growth-oriented podcast hosting platform Captivate is the first podcast host to achieve IAB v2.2 Certification for Podcast Measurement. The company supports IPv6 and has a self-auditing spike detection system for accurate and reliable data. v2.2 of the podcast measurement guidelines were released in May.
  • Other certified companies are at v2.1; Spotify’s Megaphone plans to returning to the IAB under v2.2 compliance. Here’s more about podcast statistics.
• According to a customer email seen by Podnews, Megaphone is rolling out charts-2407.png">new charts and metrics, and an upgraded campaign management tool (here’s how to use it).
• Podcast hosting company Blubrry has launched AI-Generated Clip Highlights. It’s part of the company’s Podcast AI Assistant. clip-portrait.mp4">Here’s an example.

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• In Australia, Commercial Radio & Audio has published The Audio Edge, with data and information about audio advertising.
• Kast Media, which is under Chapter 11 protection, 8491-4a00-ab96-745b305f1584.pdf">is publishing monthly reports as it continues to operate. In June, it earnt $2,100 from Apple subscriptions, and $74,000 from advertising.
• Because someone asked: we monitored 9,634 non-cached accesses to our podcast RSS feed in a 36-hour period, from podcast directories and apps.
  • Good news: 83.9% support some form of compression (either GZIP or Brotli), which has helped save a lot of bandwidth (87% every time!). 58% prefer GZIP, 42% prefer Brotli, incidentally.
  • Bad news: 21% don’t support if-modified-since, a simple HTTP header that avoids re-dowloading and re-parsing our RSS feed every time. And 13.5% don’t support either if-modified-since or if-none-match.

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People News

• Geoff Isenman has been named as CEO of Campside Media. A former NYT exec, he co-founded Cafe Studios, and is also a board member of Podfund.

Tips and tricks

• The Podcast Host asks: Should I Respond to Podcast Criticism? (And if So, How?). It notes: “Apple Podcasts, for example, lets users post once for each podcast, with no responses,” while Spotify offers responses and moderation. It also reminds us not to feed review.png">the trolls. (Damn.)

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• Obesity is at an all-time high, as is anxiety, depression and chronic disease. Ways To Feel More Human is a new podcast from Susannah Taylor, a wellbeing writer and editor for over twenty years. She speaks to some of the most knowledgeable and inspiring thought leaders, along with creatives and wellness experts to help us rethink the way we currently live.
• Milk Drunk by Bobbie is back for a new season, and becomes an always-on show, with Dear Media and Full Picture Productions. The award-winning parenting podcast was born out of a desire to create a culture where parents feel confident and supported, instead of judged.

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• Podcast production company Paradiso Media has started bankruptcy proceedings in a French court. The company was founded in June 2019, and acquired competitor Binge Audio in May 2023: at the time it had 170 shows and 50 employees, based in Paris, Los Angeles and New York. Paradiso raised $5.9mn in investment in Sept 2021. We understand that Binge Audio, still a separate company, continues its operations.
• The majority of women in the US are sports fans, according to the Female Fans Sports Audio Report from Edison Research, which was released last week. The research, with SiriusXM Media and GroupM, discovered that a third of them listen to sports audio each week.
• The Triton Digital Podcast Ranker for June was released. Downloads for the period were down 2.2%. Audioboom re-entered the top 5. iHeart is #1 sales network with average weekly downloads of 66mn.

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• iHeart’s average weekly downloads in the Podtrac ranker for June are 78mn, 18% higher than Triton’s number, despite both solutions being IAB Certified. Over the last month, trying to understand why they’re different, Podnews spoke to Podtrac, Triton, iHeart and the IAB - and learnt:
  • Not all iHeart shows are measured by both Podtrac and Triton. Triton works by logfile analysis, Podtrac works by redirects, and not all shows support both. (Triton doesn’t report the total number of iHeart shows that it measures).
  • Additionally, Podtrac measures a calendar month; while Triton measures a four-week period. (June, as one example, has june-2024.png">an extra weekend and three fewer weekdays than May this year, which changes average numbers substantially).
• The Asia Podcast Awards are due to close by the end of this week - so if you’ve not yet entered, get to it! After they close, listeners will be able to vote for their favourites in the People’s Choice category.
• The most popular podcasts in Singapore are educational shows, according to research from On Device. It claims 55% of Singaporeans listen monthly to podcasts. Meanwhile, in the UK, comedy podcasts are the most popular, with 61% listening monthly.
  • The data is based on 800 respondents in each country, and show significantly higher reach numbers than other research. By press time, the company hadn’t told us how they were recruited.
• In Spain, the Podcast Days Awards are now open for entry. You’ve until Sep 8.

People News

• James Scott is to step down from the Across The Pond Sports Network.

The Tech Stuff

• How many active podcasts are there? As above, there are 322,004 (defined as any feed with at least one episode over the last 30 days). Podnews has kept daily data from The Podcast Index over the last 18 months (JSON), and while that number has decreased year-on-year, it hasn’t decreased by much. Interesting to note both the low-point (the end of the Christmas holidays) and the high-point (mid-March for some reason).
• Google has a new AI tool called Illuminate, which takes a scientific paper and turns it into a five minute (dual-hosted) “podcast”. Youssef Ismail gives it a go, and posts some examples.
• Always interesting to check in on our page showing podcasters switching their show to a different podcast host. Over the last thirty days, the biggest winners are Megaphone, Spotify for Podcasters, and Acast. The biggest losers are Spreaker, SoundCloud and Libsyn.

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Podcast News

• Good Game with Sarah Spain has launched from iHeartPodcasts, as part of the company's new Women's Sports Audio Network. We're promised the biggest stories, stakes, stars and stats to help fans keep up with women’s teams, leagues and athletes.
• How To Write A Book is the first podcast from Elizabeth Day's production company Daylight Productions, and is part of a new set of shows she is calling a "Podclass". Hosted by best-selling author, Sara Collins, leading agent, Nelle Andrew, and powerhouse publisher, Sharmaine Lovegrove, the 12-week series guides listeners from conception to completion.
• A major new true-crime investigative podcast launches today from the BBC: World of Secrets looks at a series of brutal shootings in 1980s South Africa by a private security guard. The series will will take a deeper dive into the wider socio-political context at play at the time of these murders and features extensive interviews with those affected.
• Between 1960 and 1980, thousands of Pakistani families would communicate between Pakistan and the UK using cassette recordings - which have since been stored in attics, suitcases and garages across the UK. As part of South Asian Heritage Month, Tape Letters has been released by Modus Arts - transcribing and presenting some of these cassettes, and interviews with the people who had received them.

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Blubrry is launching an AI-powered podcast clip generator, Podfest has received a strategic investment and new leadership, and concerns have been raised about tech companies potentially using YouTube videos to train their AI models without permission.

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The launch of the Podcards podcast growth tool, the release of a new version of the Overcast podcast app, and the release of the Australian Podcast Ranker for June 2024 showing a decrease in total downloads and fewer episodes published.

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