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• Podcast Movement made its first keynote speaker announcements for Podcast Movement 2025 in Dallas, TX this August. Jack Davenport, co-founder of Goalhanger (above), the UK’s biggest independent podcaster, will give us his “lessons from across the pond”; Gabriel Soto from Edison Research will share what we know about podcasting’s new listeners; and Lauren Passell and Arielle Nissenblatt (who love our podcast) will speak about the best podcast growth tips.
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• Podcast network Mercury has partnered with the Student Radio Association in the UK to distribute all podcast content from the SRA and its member stations. The announcement was made in this week’s Podnews Weekly Review.
• Audioboom apparently paid £10mn ($13.4mn) for Adelicious, suggests Law360. (We covered the purchase yesterday). Meanwhile, Audioboom’s chairman, Michael Tobin, purchased a further £1mn-worth of shares.

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• With exclusive data today from Edison Research, Podnews can reveal the massive - and growing - size of the US podcasting industry - and a suggestion for a new metric for podcasting to express its growth over the next twenty years. Metrics can demonstrate our size, or help us understand our revenue potential: this new metric, perhaps, helps us do both.
• Audioboom has acquired the UK podcast network Adelicious. The combination of the businesses will create the UK’s largest homegrown podcast network with 40mn unique listeners, and more than 125mn monthly downloads and views. Adelicious will continue as a brand.
• Apple Podcasts announced better, more granular listening reports within Apple Podcasts Connect. The reports are only available for channels that offer paid subscriptions, but now includes a unique count of listeners per channel for the first time.

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• The free chart ranking research tool mowPod Charts has had a major update. The service now monitors rankings for your podcast in Spotify for the first time alongside Apple Podcasts chart data - and we’ve worked together to add the latest podcasting news from Podnews to the free mowPod Charts email alerts, to make them more useful for podcasters everywhere.
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• A new movie about podcasts, Age of Audio, was premiered recently at the Oak Cliff Film Festival. Initially announced in Dec 2019 and directed by Shaun Michael Colón, it follows Ronald Young Jr in his quest for a hit indie podcast; and interviews people like Adam Curry, Ira Glass, Kara Swisher and Marc Maron. You can watch the trailer here.
• The future of the Australian Podcast Ranker is secure, with an extended agreement between CRA and Triton Digital, it’s been announced. In June’s Podcast Ranker, the ABC’s Mushroom Case Daily was the third most listened-to show. The Nine Podcast Network saw 3% year-on-year increases for downloads and audience. ARN’s iHeart has 23.5mn downloads, according to the ranker (which measures participating publishers only, and notably no shows from Acast).

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• RØDE has launched a camera receiver for its Wireless Micro, letting you directly use a camera with the company’s latest wireless microphones. If you’ve already bought a Wireless Micro, you can claim a camera receiver for free (!!) by registering your product and paying shipping.
• Custom sound design is the thing that sets premium podcasts apart. That’s the view of Joshua Suhy, writing for Podnews today - with case studies of shows that benefited from a proper look at how the sound design worked.
• Even radio now has visuals in new dashboards. Pierre Bouvard, writing in the Cumulus Media and Westwood One blog, highlights some of the benefits of using visuals in audio advertising, using a number of studies. (We can use visuals in many podcast apps for podcast chapters; and, of course, on our YouTube videos). Pierre also shares this fun fact from Nielsen: “Half the time, TV ads are heard, not seen.”

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• New from Novel and iHeartPodcasts today is The Girlfriends: Jailhouse Lawyer - the third season for the chart-topping show, produced by the UK-based Novel Audio. Anna Sinfield is the host - and the story features a woman who said her abusive boyfriend murdered a man right in front of her. She was terrified that she would be killed next. So how did she end up in prison for over a decade on a murder charge?
• UK audio awards the APAs from AudioUK has announced its Pay What You Can scheme, which offers free or discounted entry to the awards and to the ceremony for those who otherwise would not be able to do so due to financial constraints. The scheme supporters are Amazon Music and Wondery.
• Edison Research has announced a free webinar for the release of The Podcast Consumer 2025. The study uses data from the Infinite Dial, Share of Ear, and Edison Podcast Metrics. A key focus in the new report is the evolving definition of podcast “consumption,” exploring podcast viewing as well as listening.

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• Podcast Movement announced the first set of confirmed sessions for the event in Dallas next month. And - Podnews can add news of one more speaker: none other than the “podfather”, Adam Curry, who is returning to Podcast Movement thanks to SoundStack. The co-inventor of podcasting, the Podcast Index and Podcasting 2.0 will be on the company’s stage on August 19th.
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• Podcast Movement announced the winners of the PM25 Scholarship Class, with nearly fifty up-and-coming podcasters who are attending with complimentary passes.
• TIME released its TIME100 Creators list for 2025 - and nearly 50% of the honorees host podcasts, a PR company acting for Spotify tell us, which is apparently evidence of “Spotify's place at the center of podcasting” (though many of the shows aren’t actually theirs). The list includes Mel Robbins, Alex Cooper, Steven Bartlett, Joe Rogan, and “Hawk Tuah” girl Haliey Welch.

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• Buzzsprout has, ah, added some sort of new tools to, er, its Magic Mastering tool. The tool now has “filler killer”, a tool that “cautiously detects and removes filler words”, and “power clean”, a tool you can manually turn on when required that can remove complex noises like chatter, wind, traffic, or reverb.
  • We gave it a copy of the Podnews Weekly Review, which Buzzsprout sponsor, and turned on “filler killer”. It turns out that it shaved more than three minutes thirty seconds of “ums” and “ahs” from our original hour-long show; and the ums it removed weren’t audible. (There’s are a few examples in our daily podcast today). We’ll, um, you know, turn it on, then, tomorrow.
• Podscribe released its industry rankings for July 2025. Crime Junkie is still the #1 podcast, it says, with 8.1 million listeners; Toyota is the new #2 podcast advertiser, behind BetterHelp.
• Higher Ed PodCon, a higher education podcasters’ conference this weekend in Chicago IL, USA, has more than 150 registrations, representing over a hundred universities. “It's shaping up to be an inspiring day of conversation and connection that reflects just how much momentum there is around podcasting in higher education,” we’re told.

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• NPR has recently added support for the funding tag across its shows - it’s a Podcasting 2.0 feature in RSS that enables a link to help directly support a show. Supporting Cast notes in a blog today that use of the feature continues to grow, now it’s supported by apps like Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict and AntennaPod.
  • Here’s the guide on podcasting2.org, including some screenshots of different apps.
• In Canada, The Podcast Exchange (TPX) is to file for bankruptcy. “Since 2018, The Podcast Exchange (TPX) has been a pioneer in building the podcast advertising market in Canada. We’ve worked hard over the years to support advertisers and publishing partners and deliver real value. Despite those efforts, the business has faced sustained financial challenges for some time.” said the CEO Pary Bell in an email.
  • Clarification: while "to file for bankruptcy" is well-used shorthand used by publications like Bloomberg, USA Today, or the Hollywood Reporter for "voluntarily submitting to a court-supervised restructuring process similar to Chapter 11 protection in the US", we should clarify that TPX is, indeed, voluntarily submitting to a court-supervised restructuring process similar to Chapter 11 protection in the US, and under the supervision of a licensed trustee the company plans to restructure its obligations and continue operating, as is clear from Bell's email.
• Podtrac released its June Podcast Rankers. Unique monthly audience was down, month-on-month, for every publisher. It lists participating publishers only.

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• In a welcome move, Spotify has returned podcast linking tool pod.link to its original developer, Nathan Gathright. Podlink, which offers one simple link to a podcast on all platforms, launched in Aug 2018, and was purchased by Podsights in Feb 2021, which in turn was acquired by Spotify in Feb 2022. Gathright left Spotify in 2023. The move will make sure that over 1.7 million links to Podlink on the web will keep working.
  • Spotify tells us: “Spotify is committed to building great products that help creators succeed. As we continue investing in native solutions that help creators and publishers track and promote their podcast episodes more effectively, we’ve decided to return Pod.link to its founder. We're collaborating closely to ensure a smooth handoff, with minimal impact to users throughout the transition”.
  • Here are other universal links tools, including Podfollow, Linkfire, and episodes.fm - which is also by Nathan Gathright (as are the platform logos you’ll see in our podcast pages).
• True Native Media has announced two ways for podcast publishers to earn money. PodRamp is for emerging podcasts, helping smaller shows with programmatic ad management and hosting; PodPremium, the company’s established offering, is for larger shows, with strategic representation and premium host-read ad campaigns.
• In the UK, AudioUK has launched a campaign for formal recognition of podcasting and audio as a core UK creative industry. It follows similar action in Canada and France. Recognition could mean tax relief and a place in policy-making committees. The release includes action that UK-based audio companies or individuals can take.

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• In what is probably the biggest podcast festival in the world, the second edition of the Crossed Wires Podcast Festival took place over the weekend in Sheffield, UK.
  • Michael Palin performed never-heard-before Monty Python material on stage in his hometown to a packed audience, in a chat hosted by long-time fan Greg James. Palin recited the deleted end scene of Life of Brian.
  • The second day saw an on-stage proposal taking place in the recording of Help, I Sexted My Boss. She said yes.
  • We’ve pictures of the weekend, including the conversion, for the event, of the former Coles Brothers store in central Sheffield.
• A new tool for podcasters, the Podcast Knowledge Library launches today. It builds on the popular MethodKit for podcasters, which serves as a roadmap to podcast development, production and distribution. The kit is available in 42 different languages.
• A new tool lets advertisers make a podcast ad in minutes. Klaxon AI says it can generate broadcast-ready ads with no recording studio, voice talent, or audio engineer required.

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• MONETIZATION: The Real Value of Podcasting — The brilliant Charlotte Lewis-West joins Smarter Podcasting, to dig into the real value of podcasting — and why making money through ads and sponsorships isn’t the only (or smartest) goal.
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• Tales from the Cloud Sea might be the first 100% improvised comedy adventure podcast for kids and families. Every episode's adventure is created by kids who call in to tell the characters where The Skytanic goes next. We’re told early feedback has been positive.
• The NYC Web Fest is now accepting podcasts as an official category in its twelfth annual celebration of indie storytelling. The festival has also announced its jury members. The festival is Oct 3-5.
• Gretchen Rubin, who signed with Lemonada Media last year for her podcast, has signed with Backyard Ventures - for her newsletters. (Opinion: interesting how podcast companies haven’t also looked at newsletters, given their popularity.)

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