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• Funding for NPR is under threat in 2025, after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have written they intend to “take aim” at funding for NPR and PBS. NPR is one of the largest podcast publishers in the US (and has trained many producers who work elsewhere).
  • NPR itself earns less than 1% of its funding from the US government; though its member stations earn 14% of their income that way. In 2023, NPR’s total revenue was $318mn, but earned just $32mn directly from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is funded by the federal government. By way of comparison, in the UK, the BBC’s revenue from government-mandated licence-fees in 2023 was US $4.6bn (£3,660mn); five times fewer people live in the UK than the US.
  • Eric Nuzum, a former NPR executive, suggests that those at NPR should lead with a concrete vision for the future, rather than take a defensive position.
• The BBC published its top podcasts of 2024, based on plays within BBC Sounds, the Corporation’s proprietary audio app. The BBC’s daily news podcast Newscast was most popular, in a year with a UK and US election.
• More podcasts are being updated this year: and more often. Livewire’s visualised podcast index stats has data today saying that 243,773 podcasts were updated in the last 14 days, up 2.5% from 237,693 this time last year. Additionally, 852,027 episodes were published in the last 14 days, up 7.6% from 787,243 in 2023.

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The Tech Stuff

• Tenacity is a fork of the Audacity audio editor, without the Russian analytics data or licence dramas. A number of forks were produced after Audacity was acquired by Muse in 2021; most have now merged into this project.
• If you’re running transcripts as part of your production process, whisper-cpp has been updated in Homebrew, and now lets you use the large-turbo model. More accuracy, and far faster.

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• Want to get live captions for everything you listen to, on whatever device? Chances are your computer or phone will do that for you.

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• Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has died. He was 100 years old. In The Guardian's Politics Weekly America, Jonathan Freedland talks to Jimmy Carter’s biographer, Jonathan Alter, about why history should look favourably on the peanut farmer turned politician.
• In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, the podcast's PWR Supporters give their views about how 2024 was for them - and what to look forward to in 2025.

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• The Podnews Weekly Review this week focuses on predictions from the podcast’s supporters for 2025. Video is one of the more divisive subjects, with some suggesting that it’ll become more and more important, and others suggesting that we’ll see a refocus towards audio. You can read - and listen - to the predictions on our website.
• Triton Digital’s Sounder has launched a new audio insights overview page, giving a new view for publishers of their content.
• Fresh from closing Google Podcasts earlier this year, Google has broken another thing: this time, “Hey, Google, What’s The Latest News” from an Android phone. That used to be a way to get Podnews to play, but now, thanks to Gemini, a bad voice reads news headlines badly. Podnews reader James Hart blogs on how to fix it. A Nest speaker continues to work, until Google breaks that, too.
  • Mind, Apple has also broken “Siri, play the news from Podnews”; our iPhone tells us that we don’t have Apple Podcasts installed (we do); and our Mac plays something on Apple Music that is not us.

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• The Verge devotes an article to “visual trends in podcasting”: highlighting wooden slats on walls; multiple long microphone stands; and televisions with podcast logos on them.
• Podcasting in China is the subject of a report from mobile app analysis firm MoonFox; podcast app Ximalaya has 300mn registered users, it says (and has numbers for the other large platforms); only 171 branded podcasts appear to exist in the country (a Louis Vuitton show has 44,000 listeners).
• Sport Social Podcast Network publishes predictions for 2025. The company’s boss, Jim Salveson, predicts that Spotify won’t woo video creators. Our favourite: “there will be further development in the podcast advertising space" which seems a prediction that can’t go wrong.
• Further reading: The UK edition of The Week publishes “the ultimate podcast list of 2024” ... The Times of London posts their 40 best podcasts ... the Financial Times writes Podcasts, politics and the craving for imperfection about politicians’ new-found love for our medium ...

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• Podcasting Made Simple - Live is a virtual event taking place on Jan 9 (11.30am-4pm ET), “focused on helping podcast guests and hosts improve their craft”. Tickets are $97; but here’s a secret link for free access from Podnews.

People News

• Blubrry has added three new members of staff. Darvin and Stacey live in the Philippines; while Jennilynd lives in the Virgin Islands.
• Jared Easley is no longer working day-to-day at Podcast Movement as a staff member. Easley was a co-founder of the event, and retains his ownership interest; he tells Podnews that financial reasons led to the closure of his role. (Disclosures).

Podcast News

• The Dec 18 edition of BFFs with Dave Portnoy, Josh Richards, and Brianna Chickenfry "saved a fan's life", says the Daily Mail. It was Portnoy's last show; he felt he was getting too old.
• Do not touch the art. This is for your own safety. The Godfrey Audio Guide posts its a two-part finale today. The award-winning audio drama blends horror, sci-fi, and art history (both real and imagined) in the guise of a museum audio tour. Part of the Fable and Folly network, it's created, written and produced by Nicole Knudsen.
• Created by Pulitzer Prize-winning Canadian writer Anthony Del Col, the audio drama Don't Listen To This is new today in the BBC's Limelight series. The five-episode series is set in the world of esports - the death of a top esports athlete and his former team psychologist’s journey to uncover the truth behind it.

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• Mobituaries with Mo Rocca is one of the biggest podcasts in the US, produced by CBS News and monetised by iHeart. Yet, depending where you listen, you get significantly more advertising.
  • We compared the same episode, downloaded from Brisbane, Los Angeles and New York. The ads are marked here in yellow. When downloaded in Australia, you get just two 30” ads (for a gambling company); when downloaded via a VPN in California, the adload was ten minutes 29 seconds (20% of the whole show). New York listeners get even more.
  • In our second spot break, in California we were served a 2’55” break. Yet, one Podnews reader on the East US coast heard the same episode: they were given a five minute spot break at that point. In total, they were given 18’40” of ads in the same show. Yikes. (Is our reader a desirable audience member, perhaps?)
  • Oddly, in California the second spot break was exactly the same as the third spot break.
• Cumulus Media, the owner of the Westwood One Podcast Network, might be delisted from NASDAQ again, after the company traded below $1 a share for more than thirty days. It’s got until the middle of next year to sort things out, though. It was last delisted in 2017.
• Happy Christmas to ART19, which certified to IAB v2.2 podcast guidelines on Dec 23. The IAB requires annual recertification, yet four companies still appearing in the IAB’s list were last certified in 2021 - three from iHeart (Omny Studio, Spreaker and Voxnest); and the German podcast host Audiorella.

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• Anycast is an “AI-powered podcast app” - which will transcribe podcasts but also allows you to “chat” with the podcast. Here is the source code for both iOS and Android. (It seems to use the Apple directory).
• We linked to this back in 2018, but it might be worthwhile linking again: A Guide to Talking to Your Family About Podcasts During the Holidays

Tips and tricks

• Got a new Chromebook for Christmas? You can install Audacity on a Chromebook. We updated these instructions yesterday.

Podcast News

• Adnan Syed, the subject of the first series of Serial, is seeking a reduction to his prison sentence, so that he isn’t sent back to jail.
• The Guardian posts the 20 best podcasts of 2024. The number one is Wondery and Novel's Kill List, which "laid bare the sinister reality of the dark web, and went where no podcast has gone before."

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• Nick Quah posts The 10 Moments That Defined Podcasting in 2024. In the list, Haliey “Hawk Tuah” Welch, Donald Trump, and Mark Zuckerberg in Acquired. And others, too.
• Podcasters using affiliate marketing to earn revenue should know about PayPal’s Honey browser extension - which is rewriting your affiliate codes to theirs, so even if you successfully promote a product, if Honey is installed on a user’s machine, PayPal get the commission, not your podcast.
• Justin Baldoni’s Man Enough podcast has lost Liz Plank, the show’s co-host, who has announced she is to step away from the show, in a statement. Baldoni has been accused of sexual harassment and a smear campaign, by Blake Lively. The show, which started in 2021, is additionally co-hosted by Wayfarer Studios CEO Jamey Heath, who is also named in Lively’s complaint.

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• How many podcasts still have the Chartable prefix in them? As of last weekend, there were still 14,241 (not including shows hosted on Megaphone). Omny Studio has the most, at 1,665 (down by 15% since Dec 1), Libsyn has 1,192 (down by 57%) and Simplecast 973 (down by 37%). Chartable prefixes still work - but they won’t for much longer.

There’s a lot of pressure to have a time of joy and happiness right now: but if things become too much, there are plenty of people who can help talk things out - and they’re available today. Here’s a list of helpful numbers and online chat services.

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• You wanted free transcriptions for your podcast as your Christmas present this year? We link to two types of free software: one fancy website or desktop app from Spreaker; and one terminal command piece of software that you can include in your automations. The latter one, whisper-cpp, has been upgraded to work significantly faster and more accurately using a new model.

Podcast News

• Audio fiction is hard to produce as an "always-on" podcast (with all the benefits that brings), but Josie’s Lonely Hearts Club has succeeded, publishing an episode a week in 2024. It's partially done by making the show a hybrid of scripted and improvised - giving the show both narrative arcs, but also what the makers call "the electric energy of live comedy". It's a neat method of making a show, and must work - it's just picked up an award!
• Some beer names are so ridiculous, they would make a good movie. (Our Editor's beer advent calendar makes that clear). The show Beer Me That Movie finds silly beer names and makes movies from them; and to keep the feed alive over the holiday period, here’s a neat idea - they're getting Google NotebookLM to analyse past episodes, too. Cheers!

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• In the UK, Crowd Network has seen revenues grow by over 80% for the fourth consecutive year, the company says. The buzz around the podcast network includes live shows, video-first podcasts, and award nominations.
• Is Apple Podcasts getting more popular? Libsyn posted another small increase in share-of-download for Apple Podcasts for November 2024, up to 46.9%. (However, any episodes uploaded as video to Spotify won’t count in these figures, even if only listened in audio form).
• Something we didn’t spot at the time: SXM Media withdrew from the US Triton Digital ranker in October. We gather another large publisher is out of Triton’s ranker from Jan 1. Triton Digital is owned by a competing podcast network: iHeart, and in New York, the company moved into iHeart’s offices in November.

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• Pod Engine has shared its report on how Podcasting 2.0 has been covered on podcasts in 2024. The tool discovered 211 podcast episodes where it was discussed, and has summarised the relevant themes.
• “Are podcasts drifting towards over-saturation?” Not a view from the US, but instead, from Bhubaneswar in India, where “the streaming market seems to be saturated with the podcast content, and it looks like just a matter of time when this format will become redundant.” The article first appeared in Sambad - which is a newspaper, and we reckon it’s only a matter of time when that format will be made redundant too. (Being fair, Sambad might be a newspaper, but it has a circulation of 410,000 and claims a readership of 7 million, so perhaps we should stop being so sarcastic on Christmas Eve, good will to all, etc)
• Further reading: UK critic Miranda Sawyer posts her best podcast listens of 2024. Six are from the BBC ... Joe Casabona posts his predictions for the year ahead, and assesses last year’s.

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• Podcastpage looks into AI Podcast Generators – Exploring current capabilities and the future.

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• Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips with Neil Patel and Eric Siu has signed with YAP Media for an exclusive sales partnership. The show is to publish 4x episodes a week next year, and claims 200,000 high-income professionals and entrepreneurs as listening.
• 15 Minutes With a Farmer, the in-house podcast of Successful Farming magazine, feature another podcast in the latest episode. Arlene Hunter and Caite Palmer host the “Barnyard Language” podcast, which focuses on running farms and raising families.
• How tough has this year been for parts of the media industry? Touch enough for DW Akademie to be running a show called Survive and Thrive: The Media Viability Podcast. The team has published a look back at the second season.

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