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• Edison Research has released a study showing the comparative difference between Trump and Harris appearances on podcasts before the election. Trump spoke to over three times the number of listeners, says the data.
• Acast has tweaked its free podcast hosting plan. It used to offer unlimited episodes; it now offers up to five; and there are adjustments to website and embed player customisation options. “We're making these changes to ensure we can continue providing reliable, high-quality hosting services for the long term,” said an Acast spokesperson. “Like many platforms, we've found that a balanced approach between free and premium features helps us invest in better infrastructure and support.”
• Acast has also launched a campaign showcasing the effort and research that goes into delivering trusted news content. The Podcasts You Can Trust campaign includes videos with Tortoise Media, The Guardian, the FT, The Telegraph and The Times.

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• Spotify probably emailed you yesterday with details of its new video clips/thumbnails feature. Headliner has worked with Spotify to produce a guide on how to produce them.
• Realm has added the Countdown Network to its roster for sales and distribution.

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• Craig Stein has been hired by AdResults Media as SVP of Media Planning. He joins from consultancy R3.

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• Evergreen content is a great way to make valuable content for your show. In a new article, Philip Pape explains how to create episodes that are relevant a month, a year, even ten years from now. How I make Wits & Weights tells us the details in full.

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• The Good Whale is new from Serial today. Fans of the movie “Free Willy” are outraged to learn that the real whale who played Willy lives in a tiny pool at an amusement park in Mexico City. So well-intentioned experts embark on an epic science experiment to try to teach one celebrity orca how to be free — while the world watches.
• Headgum are making you an offer you can't refuse - a new comedy podcast called Chicken Podmesan. NYC-based comedians, Dan Licata (SNL, Late Night with Seth Meyers) and Nick Naney (The Tonight Show) are hosting the six-episode part improv / part interview comedy series, where they play characters interviewing Italian-American figures and comedians, discussing all aspects of Italian American life - from the food and their family antics to why there are so many guys named Tony.
• The author of a new "how I make" article, Philip Pape, highlights Wits & Weights - a show which cuts through the noise, and deconstructs health and fitness with an engineering mindset to help you develop a strong, lean physique without wasting time.

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• Spotify announced a set of new features for creators at its Now Playing event in Los Angeles, with Gustav Söderström announcing its podcast (and video) hosting platform has been renamed to Spotify for Creators. Eligible creators in the US, UK, Canada and Australia are able to join the brand new Spotify Partner Program, which earns money from podcast audio ads (both on and off the platform), and, from early next year, revenue based on how much your video podcast is streamed by Premium users. (The videos will appear uninterrupted and ad-free for those users).
  • Eligibility for the Spotify Partner Program requires you to use Spotify for Creators to host your podcast (or Megaphone in some cases); and you need at least twelve episodes, 2,000 unique Spotify users in the last month, and 10,000 streamed hours in the last month. (YouTube, by comparison, needs 1,000 all-time subscribers, but 4,000 streamed hours in the last year.)
• Spotify also announced that it’s now possible to upload video clips and video thumbnails for every episode.
  • The event happened in Spotify’s Los Angeles studios, in front of around 150 creators including Stephen Bartlett, Meghan Trainor, Jay Shetty, Emma Chamberlain and Don Lemon. Halsey played an acoustic set and there were a number of sessions. In one of them, when asked what his favourite thing about podcasting was, chow-at-spotify.jpeg">Geoff Chow, Head of Podcast Studios at The Ringer, said that it was that podcasts are open. (Admittedly, after saying that his favourite thing about podcasting was Bill Simmons.)
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• 2024-Shareholder-Deck-FINAL.pdf?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-11-14">On Tuesday, Spotify announced its Q3/24 financials. The company reported record income, record gross margin of 31.1%, and revenue up by 21% year-on-year. It made $32mn profit in the quarter, and is on course to post a yearly profit for the first time. Spotify is now used by 640 million active users every month.
  • Ad-supported revenue, including advertising in podcasts, grew 6% year-on-year. However, yield appears to be an issue: the company noted that “podcasting advertising was driven by growth in impressions sold, partially offset by softness in pricing.“

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• Edison Research revealed the top 50 podcasts in the US, by total audience, for Q3/2024. Our list includes links to listen; 21 of the top 50 are hosted by Spotify’s Megaphone.
• iHeart Media is laying off up to 500 people. A large number of radio people affected have been documented by radioINSIGHT; we understand there have been cuts in some of the company’s podcast businesses too.
• BlogTalkRadio is to close on Jan 31. One of the earliest podcast and live-streaming hosts, it launched in January 2006. It merged with Spreaker in August 2017; Voxnest bought Spreaker in 2018; iHeart bought Voxnest in 2020. Most recently it’s been part of Triton Digital. In August this year, it hosted 3,293 podcasts.
• free-closes.png">Samsung Podcasts has emailed licensing partners to reveal that it is to close on Dec 1. The service was latterly known as “the listen tab on Samsung Free or Samsung O”. It launched in March 2021.
• The Locked On Podcast Network has added the Locked On NBA FAST channel, a sixth FAST TV channel on YouTube, Local Now and Zeam, with Amazon Fire to come shortly. The channel carries daily episodes from Locked On NBA video podcasts.
  • The company as a whole saw a record listens+views figure in October of 37.5mn - almost 10% higher than September.
• Acast now represents the TED Audio Collective for ad sales, hosting and distribution. TED Talks Daily, the flagship show of the network, is currently a top 40 podcast in the US. TED moves from PRX and Soundrise. The deal covers everywhere outside Australia and New Zealand, where ARN’s iHeart is currently partner.
• iq.com/wp-content/uploads/AnalyticsIQ-Research-Report-Podcast-Listening-Behaviors.pdf?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-11-14">New US podcast consumption data from AnalyticsIQ suggests that YouTube is the most popular place for podcast listening, with 59% of people saying they’d listened to a podcast on it in the past three months. Comedy is the #1 podcast category; 23% say they’ve bought products because of a podcast ad. Not given in the report: the survey was undertaken in Q1/24 (which explains why 16% of listeners say they were using Google Podcasts, which closed in March).
• The Podcast Marketing Academy released its Podcast Marketing Trends report for 2024. It contains a lot of data to allow you to compare your podcasts with others. It’s the latest report to make note of the disruption caused by Apple’s iOS 17 changes.

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Where were you when Donald Trump was declared winner of the 2024 election? And where were you a few hours later when the German government coalitioncollapsed-the same day? If you’re interested in politics and in events shaping our world, and if you’re interested in what Trump 2.0 and a weak Germany means for the future of geopolitics - then DW Berlin Briefing should be right up your alley. The new video podcast on all things German politics and the German view on events worldwide was launched on November 8.

Join the three hosts, Nina Haase, Michaela Küfner and Richard Walker, as they offer you a unique perspective on Germany’s role in today’s rapidly changing world.

Listen and subscribe to Berlin Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever else you get your podcasts. A new episode every Friday.

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• Why can’t I see my YouTube plays in my podcast host? Because they’re measuring different things, probably. We dive in.

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• Permission To Shine, the show dedicated to highlighting humble, inspiring people, has reached episode #50. The 50th guest is Eric Byrnes. He spent 11 years in the MLB, holds a Guinness World Record for golfing 420 holes in 24 hours, completed a triathlon across America, author of 3 books, completor of the Western States 100 race, and is founder of the Let Them Play foundation -- emphasizing the importance of kids getting active.
• What does a day in the life of Austin TX sound like? To make 24 Hours in Austin, which launches today, twenty audio producers spent 24 hours in different Austin locations - recording peoples' stories. The show kicks off today, spending 24 hours in 6th Street.
• At least one-third of residents in the Navajo Nation — the largest Indigenous tribe in the United States — need to travel miles to get water for drinking, bathing, cooking and cleaning. New from ABC Audio this week, Reclaimed: The Lifeblood of Navajo Nation chronicles the Navajo Nation’s generations-long fight for water rights — a battle that has reached a critical turning point with a landmark bill in front of Congress that, if passed, would create critical infrastructure that diverts water to Navajo communities.
• REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana is new this week from Ballen Studios and Wondery. Each week, the show pulls back the curtain on what once was classified information - exposing the secrets and lies behind the world’s most powerful institutions. Say it ain't so!
• The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior is a co-production of the Australian ABC and RNZ, exploring the Greenpeace ship's last voyage before it was bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour, killing a photographer. Hosted by writer, podcaster and comedian James Nokise, the story follows the fallout - scientifically, politically, and socially - from the nuclear tests at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands, home to the people of Rongelap Atoll. It's new this week.
• After three years, host Nikkiesha McLeod and producer Jeremiah Lee McVay are producing the 2nd season of When We See Each Other, their podcast that features mainly BIPOC, trans, queer, and non-binary artists talking about their work, their creative processes, their identities, and their lives. The show originally ran during the pandemic.

Today’s most important question

What even is a podcast? After all the talk of video yesterday, we didn’t go to this session at Spotify’s Now Playing - we know the answer already.

(Thumbnail image: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Spotify)

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• The Podcast Hall of Fame has announced a new board of governors. The organisation, which honors excellence and creator success stories in podcasting, has also published its eligibility guidelines; the next Podcast Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be on Fri Jan 17 at Podfest Expo in Orlando, Florida.
• Magellan AI is now measuring more forms of promotional content within podcasts. “Shows are increasingly using branded episodes, interviews, and feed drops - formats that deserve the same level of measurement as conventional placements,” the company says.
• Wondercraft and Frequency have produced an integration to let brands and media publishers produce and deploy personalised audio ad campaigns. The tools let you build alternative copy, or even use AI to make hundreds of different variations.

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• “Podcasts, long a male-dominated medium in which the gender gap has only recently started to close, exploit men’s competitive appetites for supposed methods of physical and mental self-improvement.” Good Tape published an expanded and updated article about what it calls “podcast masculinity”.
• Who do you podcast to? A new academic publication today looks at the imagined podcast listener - and why sometimes that makes podcasters less inclusive than you’d think.
• Expect a set of announcements later today by Spotify in an event in Los Angeles.

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Moves and Hires

• Angie Trueblood has been hired as Account Executive at True Native Media. She will play a key role in helping True Native Media continue to expand its client offerings and foster deeper connections between podcasters and advertisers.

Tips and tricks

• Wavve has a full article about the importance of sound quality in podcasting. It suggests that audiences are likely to abandon a podcast with bad sound quality within the first few minutes.

Podcast News

• The Stassi podcast has moved to PodcastOne. Hosted by bestselling author and reality television personality Stassi Schroeder, the show has moved in what the company calls a multiyear seven-figure deal. The podcast addition strengthens and grows PodcastOne’s existing commitment to providing engaging content tailored to women.

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• The Podcast Hall of Fame has announced a new board of governors. The organisation, which honors excellence and creator success stories in podcasting, has also published its eligibility guidelines; the next Podcast Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be on Fri Jan 17 at Podfest Expo in Orlando, Florida.
• Magellan AI is now measuring more forms of promotional content within podcasts. “Shows are increasingly using branded episodes, interviews, and feed drops - formats that deserve the same level of measurement as conventional placements,” the company says.
• Wondercraft and Frequency have produced an integration to let brands and media publishers produce and deploy personalised audio ad campaigns. The tools let you build alternative copy, or even use AI to make hundreds of different variations.

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• “Podcasts, long a male-dominated medium in which the gender gap has only recently started to close, exploit men’s competitive appetites for supposed methods of physical and mental self-improvement.” Good Tape published an expanded and updated article about what it calls “podcast masculinity”.
• Who do you podcast to? A new academic publication today looks at the imagined podcast listener - and why sometimes that makes podcasters less inclusive than you’d think.
• Expect a set of announcements later today by Spotify in an event in Los Angeles.

Focus

Since 1996, The Webby Awards has been recognized as the preeminent international honor for Internet excellence. Last year’s Webby Awards received nearly 13,000 entries from around the world.

By participating in The Webbys, you place your work on the same stage as boundary-pushing talent, like past Webby Winners Audible, Crooked Media, iHeart Podcasts, PRX, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Lemonada Media, Wondery, and Vox Media to name a few.

New this year, Podcast honors recognizing Best Indie Podcast - Limited Run in Features, Best Creator or Influencer Series in Features, History in Individual Episodes, and the return of Podcast Company of the Year.

Learn more, and enter the 29th Annual Webby Awards by the Final Entry Deadline on December 20th, 2024.

Moves and Hires

• Angie Trueblood has been hired as Account Executive at True Native Media. She will play a key role in helping True Native Media continue to expand its client offerings and foster deeper connections between podcasters and advertisers.

Tips and tricks

• Wavve has a full article about the importance of sound quality in podcasting. It suggests that audiences are likely to abandon a podcast with bad sound quality within the first few minutes.

Podcast News

• The Stassi podcast has moved to PodcastOne. Hosted by bestselling author and reality television personality Stassi Schroeder, the show has moved in what the company calls a multiyear seven-figure deal. The podcast addition strengthens and grows PodcastOne’s existing commitment to providing engaging content tailored to women.

Gold supporters: Buzzsprout, Mowpod, Mamamia, The Podglomerate, Simplecast, Steve Lack: Audio, Podscribe, Audiohook, audioBoom, Resound, SALT, RedCircle, Cohost, Riverside.fm, Jar Audio, Podchaser, Awesound, Disctopia, Libsyn, Evergreen Podcasts, We Edit Podcasts, Knucklehead Media Group, Podpage websites

Silver supporters: Storic Media, Audacia Audio, Bumper, Magellan AI, The Roost, Deepcast, Cloud10, Tink Media, Red Seat Ventures, Gilded Audio, PlayPodcast, Gumball, Storyboard, Ausha, POW PR, Jonekiri, Huberman Lab, SoundStack, Truefans, Frequency, The Podcast Haven, Voxtopica, ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Aust, Podium , Podcastpage, Message Heard, Health Podcast Network, Sonic Influencer Marketing, Headliner, Diversion Podcasts, Lemonada Media, Transistor, Castos, Podcast Taxi, Rhapsody Voices, Jam Street Media, Oxford Road, Ossa Collective, Wondery, Double Elvis Productions, Heartcast Media50, Optimal Living Daily, Zvook, Rephonic, Blubrry, matchmaker.fm, Content10x, Podcast Partnership, Ad Results Media, Hear.Here.Singapore, StreamGuys, Cleanfeed, She Podcasts, Lower Street, Sonix, Adopter Media, School of Podcasting, Revolver Podcasts, Podcast Movement, Podigy, Edison Research, Signal Hill Insights

Our personal supporters: Eric Montgomery, Amy Woods, John, Jessica Alpert Silber, Armel, Oludotun Oyebolu, Mikel Ellcessor, Gene Monterastelli, Ed Sullivan, Neil Mody, David Lloyd, Lindsay Graham, Steven Goldstein, Matt Wade, Mirko Lagonegro, Andy Maher, The Virtual Couch, Kara Silverman, Eric Hunley, Liz Covart, Owen Grover, Justin Jackson, Karen Jackson, CESLIE Armstrong, Søren Hugger Møller, Josh Withers, Mike R, Michael Dell, Eric Nuzum, Benjamin Masse, Brett Johnson, Mark Ramsey, Steve Stewart, Pete Morgan, Jody Avirgan, Joe Stone, ShEvo (Sheila Dee & Evo Terra), James Atkinson, Helene Pawlitzki, Buzz Knight, Graeme Klass, Stephanie Arakelian, Kerry Donahue, Tony Garcia, We Are Libertarians, Stew Redwine, Dave Beasing, Meggan Ellingboe, EarBuds Podcast Collective, Andy Bowers, Mary Dooe, Alicia Mackey Huber, Paul Vogelzang, Vanessa Harris, Rekha Murthy, Mohammad Ali, Suzanne Schultz, Joanne Phillips, Niall Mackay, Courtney Reimer, Brandon Schexnayder, Sam Phelps, Doug Downs, Lex Friedman, Larry Rosin, Jeremy McCarter, Charles Spivey, Tom Teodorczuk, Ken Beyer, Bubbe Ann Schockett, Darius Derakshan, Stefano Mangone, Dave Campbell, Cindy Howes

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• RØDE has launched its smallest wireless microphone yet, the Wireless Micro. Built for smartphones - the receiver plugs into the bottom of your phone - it features two clip-on microphones in either white or black.
• Pocket Casts is getting ready to change “Subscribe” to “Follow” in its popular podcast app, according to change notes for the upcoming next version. The word “Follow” is used by both Apple and Spotify.
• The Podcast Haven has added a podcast search to help you check if anyone else has the same podcast name. “It’s a pain to check across platforms like Apple, Spotify and YouTube separately, so I created a one-stop search tool to handle it all,“ said its founder, Eric Montgomery.

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• MrBallen is offically a New York Times bestselling author, he announced today - his graphic novel, Strange Dark & Mysterious, based on the hit podcast, was the highest debut novel on the NYT’s graphic novel and manga list this month.
• PodMatch published its November 2024 Podcasting Industry Report, for independent podcasters. The report pulls together a number of data sources to help new podcasters succeed.
• Audio marketers RadioActive Media has launched a billboard campaign across Southern California. The company uses personalities like Michael Smerconish, Bill Maher, Brian Kilmeade, and Chris Cuomo to voice audio spots.
• One year old this month, Beifahrersitz is a German-language newsletter about what it’s really like to have your own podcast. Denise Fernholz shares her numbers and her experiences growing her own show. There’s a new edition today; last week, she read Tom Webster’s book.
  • PS: search engine Kagi has launched its own free translation tool, just saying.

Moves and Hires

• Chris Wallace, a CNN host, is to leave the network. The Beast suggests he will instead find a new home on an independent platform such as streaming or podcasting, which he described as “where the action seems to be.”

Tips and tricks

• Podcast Discovery shares Five Ways You Can Create a Successful Branded Podcast
• Want to be successful on YouTube? Chris Stone writes where the best podcast traffic comes from on YouTube. It’s not search.

Podcast News

• Head Number 7 is new everywhere from Wondery and Audio Always today. The series delves into the macabre case of Cedric Lodge, the former head of the mortuary at Harvard Medical School, who was accused of a shocking and gruesome crime. It's presented by Professor Turi King, a presenter and forensic genealogist who specialises in unlocking the secrets held in human remains and solving ancient cold cases.
• Launched at the start of last month, Silent Medical Records Risk opens our eyes to the hidden risks in medical records that patients often overlook. Through real-life stories and host insights, the show explores how record errors can impact patient care and offers tips for spotting and correcting inaccuracies. It's from Blue Age.
• Legacy Talk is new today from Lemonada Media, hosted by Emmy-winning writer, producer, and actor Lena Waithe. The show will feature Waithe in thought-provoking conversations with iconic Black creators and industry leaders including Sheryl Lee Ralph, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mara Brock Akil, Jenifer Lewis, and Debbie Allen. The series is a production of Waithe’s Hillman Grad with Lemonada overseeing ad sales, marketing and distribution.
• Fifty years ago this month, Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker, died in a fatal crash as she was driving to hand over documents to a journalist. Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood Mystery from ABC Audio unearths newly discovered and never-before-heard audio tapes from investigators, recorded decades apart that might provide fresh insight.

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• Exclusive: Podpage has added a listener survey tool for anyone using its podcast website service. It uses standard questions inspired by Tom Webster’s The Audience is Listening, and you can add your own questions should you require.
• Exclusive: The Wondery/Novel show Kill List - an five-year investigation into the targeting of hundreds of innocent people on a murder-for-hire website - is to have a live show in London, on Dec 3. Tickets went on sale this morning; host Carl Miller and producers Caroline Thornham and Tom Wright will share backstories of how the show was made, with audio clips, outtakes, and Q&A.
• Quill and Ipsos have published the 2024 Podcast Marketing Trust Index report. 56% say an endorsement by podcast hosts influences their trust in a product or service.

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• iHeart released its Q3/24 financials. Podcast revenue, at $114mn, was up 11% year-on-year; and now accounts for 11.3% of the company’s total. The company is paying more in podcast revenue sharing, however.
• Auddia released its Q3/24 financials. The company, which makes an ad-skipping radio and podcast app, made a loss of $1.9mn. The financial notes say that the company has a total debt of $87mn, and needs to raise more money to keep trading after Q1/25. It has raised $10.4mn this year so far.
• assets.nytimes.com/2024/11/Q324-Earnings-Presentation-Final-for-Distribution-LqBc65oY.pdf?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-11-11">The New York Times released its Q3/24 financials, too. Podcasting is only mentioned twice in the assets.nytimes.com/2024/11/Q3-2024-Prepared-Remarks-FINAL.pdf?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-11-11">prepared remarks: “We also began experimenting to make audio a more direct driver of subscriptions with new paid offerings available through Spotify and Apple.”
• In the the UK, there are 967,000 people who listen to podcasts, but don’t listen to any radio. (12.6mn people listen to podcasts each week as a whole.)
• McAfee has released a tool that “flags AI-generated audio within seconds”. The launch of McAfee Deepfake Detector is part of McAfee’s Smart AI Hub.
• Podsift, a tool that summarises podcasts, has now incorporated 250 podcasts into its service.
• Podcast Bestie, a newsletter and podcast for independent creators, is celebrating its third anniversary. The newsletter, written by Courtney Kocak, now has over 5,000 subscribers.
• Manchester’s Crowd Network has expanded, hiring two new video producers.
• Global’s DAX has been appointed Deezer’s exclusive ad partner in the US. Deezer was with Targetspot.
• Streamyard has updated its terms, according to new-terms.png">an email to users. For free users, it now plans to delete all recordings after 12 months (the previous terms just said they could delete them at any time if they wanted). The company increased its monthly pricing by 80% in September.

We last updated The Podnews Ranker in July 2022, but given All The News, it’s probably time to see it back again. We use it to measure the gender balance of the people we mention: and our gender balance of stories over the last 90 days, it reports, was 39% female. The page places this in context with other parts of the podcast industry.

The Tech Stuff

• If you’re a podcast host, we calculate you’ll be serving each active podcast RSS feed 42,000 times a day. So, we assumed that all podcast hosts are making it easier to spot when a feed has been updated - or, are using compression to significantly lower bandwidth bills. After testing each podcast host’s RSS feeds, we were surprised at how many don’t support compression - or the last-modified header.
• Are you seeing Apple Podcasts reject more of your own VTT transcripts lately, and insisting on using its own? We’d be curious to know. Drop us an email?
• From the archive: incognito mode for podcasting?

Tips and tricks

• There are some excellent books about podcasting out there, so we’ve put together a list. (Got any favourites we’ve missed? Hit reply and let us know).

Podcast News

• In 2023, there were 656 mass shootings in the United States. The one in Lewiston, Maine on October 25, 2023 was the deadliest. It may have also been the most preventable. One year later, Breakdown explores the missed opportunities to prevent the shooting, the role of guns and hunting in Maine’s politics, and the aftermath for shooting victims, some of whom were deaf and hard of hearing. It's a limited-series from Maine Public Radio, the Portland Press Herald and FRONTLINE, the award-winning PBS investigative documentary series.
• Hollywood's biggest night is also the most baffling - the film frequently hailed as the “Greatest Film of All Time” didn’t take home the Oscar; and two of the Top 100 American Films of All-Time were overlooked for nominations in the same year. OSCARS... What Were They Thinking?! is new today, with historical insights, engaging discussions, and never-before-heard stories
• The Binge Crimes: Lady Mafia started this month - a podcast that explores the world of Orange County, CA high powered lawyer Sara King, who was accused of scamming investors out of $10 million before her story was splashed across the headlines. The show features Sara King herself, speaking for the first time - who says she's no con artist.
• Mark Lombardi's intricate drawings traced hot money, from Cold War funding to the heroin trade. But his most dogged scrutiny fell on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a global money laundry bankrolling fraudsters, smugglers, and CIA operations abroad. A new show from Project Brazen, The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness asks whether that was why he was found dead at 48.

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