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• There will be a federal election this year in Australia, and the current Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has chosen his first long-form interview to be on independent podcast News Club from The Squiz.
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• Amplitude Media Partners (AMP) has signed to be the exclusive sales partner for podcasts represented by The Podglomerate.
• APVA, the Association of African Podcasters and Voice Artists, has published its 2024 Report. The data shows how many people the organisation has reached, including its community events in Abuja, Lagos and Zambia.
  • It’s Africa Podcast Day on Feb 12.
• In New Zealand, NZME has signed an audio partnership with BBC Studios, and will act as exclusive sales representation for BBC Studios podcasts. (It’s likely to mean that the BBC will appear in the New Zealand Podcast Ranker, which NZME already dominates.)

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• With Airwave: The Box of Oddities’s John Elliott says: “Since we have joined forces with Airwave media we’ve been impressed not only by their genuine concern for our continued success but the level of communication we receive." The show delves into the strange and mysterious aspects of our world.
• Sitcom podcast Supermarket has achieved 100,000 global downloads, according to podcast network 911 Podcasts. The show, which features a down-on-his-luck sitcom superstar forced to go back to work at a supermarket in his home town, got featured on national TV.
• There's a whole world of wine out there, and After Wine School focuses each episode on a specific wine region and its history, a tasting, and answering your questions about wine, too. It's hosted by Keith Wallace, founder of the Wine School of Philadelphia, and Alana Zerbes, a seasoned wine educator, and launches today.
• Our New South returns for a new season today, highlighting the stories, communities and challenges shaping America’s South, diving into censorship and healthcare, tourism and religion, struggles for rights and resources, and the global reverberations of New South culture.

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• The 2025 induction ceremony for the Podcast Hall of Fame took place in Orlando FL, USA, with eleven new honorees. You can watch the full ceremony here.
• The UK’s Sport Social Podcast Network has partnered with German podcast studio Wake Word to enter the German market. The two companies will support rights holders and sporting institutions in Germany.
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• A proposal has been made for a specific Audio Fiction namespace, to add additional tags that are specific to fiction podcasts, with the ideal of helping specific fiction podcast apps. The level of support is currently unclear.
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• With Airwave: The Explorers Podcast’s Matt Breen says: “Joining the Airwave has been a boon for my podcast. After about a year with them, my downloads had doubled, and traffic continued to grow. It's awesome.”
• Fin vs History is a brand new podcast from the team behind viral sensation Fin vs The Internet, from comedians Fin Taylor and Horatio Gold. They've bought some ill-fitting suits, and are determined to guess / explain every war, revolution, assassination and ideological movement that has ever existed. They just can't promise it will be accurate. The show is with Podmasters.
• My Legacy Podcast is new from The Martin Luther King III Foundation, Legacy+ and iHeartMedia today, promising to offer listeners an intimate look into the stories behind the personas of beloved public figures and influential leaders. The show is hosted by Martin Luther King III, human rights activist Arndrea Waters King, Legacy+ Founder Craig Kielburger and social entrepreneur Marc Kielburger.
• From the creators of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill comes Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, a gripping limited series exploring the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 90s. Through cautionary tales like Go Ask Alice, infamous cases like the West Memphis Three, and the rise of the Moral Majority, the show reveals how hysteria devastated lives and distracted the church from confronting the real evils within.
• Comedian Sammy Petersen is told true crime stories by journalist Georgia Love in Not Another Crime Podcast, new from iHeart today. "We don’t just tell true crime stories, we’ll be sharing a drink and a yap with our listeners while discussing the gossip, grit and gore of the crimes we find most fascinating."
• The award-winning Tape Letters returns with a new season today looking at Scottish-Pakistani families who communicated using cassette tapes in the mail. The show takes us back to between 1960-1980, sharing moments of joy and of heartbreak.

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• Podfest Expo is taking place at the Renaissance Orlando at Seaworld in Florida; with the full tracks starting today. The Podcast Hall of Fame Ceremony is held this evening, welcoming eleven new people. We’re sorry we’re not there this year; but we hope you have a great time.
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• The IAB expects US digital advertising growth to slow considerably this year. It’s because of a lack of big events like the Olympics and elections. It’s not limited to digital ads, though - everyone is predicted to feel the pinch.

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• Podcasting never stops - and a podcast studio in Melbourne VIC, Australia, is now open right round the clock. This Is A Studio in Prahran has two video-equipped studios, and a mobile setup for conferences and exhibitions.
• Auddia, which launched a podcast app that strips the ads in Nov 2023, has announced a new share offering. The documentation comes with full balance sheets for the company. We learn that in the nine months ending Sep 30, 2024, its total operating expenses were $5.6mn; while the Chairman, CEO and CFO were paid, in total, $1.07mn for the year. The company’s total revenue during that time was $0.
• Just before Christmas, Marketplace Tech covered a look back at 20 years of podcasting.
• The Webby Awards has announced a session with Dan Taberski, who was awarded Podcast of the Year by Apple Podcasts last month. It’s on Jan 29.
• The Podnews Weekly Review this week includes an interview with Audioboom CEO Stuart Last.

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• Resonate posts Marketing Strategies For Growing Your Audience. Write a better description of your show is one part of their advice.

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• With Airwave: Motley Fool Money is a daily podcast for stock investors - expect Foolish advice over the weekend, and a long-term perspective on business news weekdays, with The Motley Fool’s investment analysts.
• If ever there was a week for the LA Times to launch a climate podcast, it's this. Boiling Point is a new podcast by Times Climate Columnist Sammy Roth, and will delve into the biggest climate stories shaping the world. It starts off, of course, with a look at the fires in Los Angeles.
• Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast releases a new season today, using the award-winning UK-based production company, Persephonica, behind hit shows such as Political Currency and Miss Me? to help grow the success of the show. Hosted by former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres with political strategist Tom Rivett-Carnac and business consultant Paul Dickinson, the show aims to welcome a wider audience to the climate conversation.

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• Before Christmas, some Megaphone customers saw a significant decrease in download numbers. “Something seems off”, one told us, “...and I can’t get a straight answer as to why.” The company has now sent a message to users saying that they’d found a bug; and that it’s fixed - affected dates are Nov 21 to Jan 13. Payouts were unaffected.
• It’s emerged that one of those laid-off by TuneIn this week was Steve Gaysinskiy, who was responsible for maintaining TuneIn’s integrations with different partners. It was the latest in a series of unreported layoffs at the company, which still offers a podcast directory in spite of not accepting new shows since February last year.

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• Google’s NotebookLM podcast hosts have had to be retrained to stop them being rude when interrupted.
• Writing in Forbes, Bernard Marr wonders whether AI podcast hosts will “destroy the very soul of broadcasting”. Maybe they could be rude when you interrupt them?
• GreatPods lists its “top and best 24 of 2024”. Get well soon, Captain Ron.

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• We managed to make it impossible to sign in and post a new job to our free jobs board the other day, while we work on something new. Sorry. We’ve fixed that now.
• Apple is looking for a Senior PR Manager: you’d be looking after Apple News, Apple Books, and Apple Podcasts. You’d be replying to our emails!

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• If someone in your life has just got a Google Chromebook, fear not - it’ll do audio editing quite nicely. Here’s how to install Audacity on your Chromebook.

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• New on Airwave: In The British History Podcast you’ll learn about people from British history - who they were and how their desires, fears, and flaws shaped the scope of this island at the edge of the world. And some of those desires are downright scandalous.
• Trump 100 is new from the UK's Sky News starting this Monday: following Trump's first 100 days in office. The President-elect has pledged to tackle 59 issues “on Day One.” The podcast will examine whether, when, and how these promises translate into reality, and the impact they’ll have.
• Trumponomics is new this week from Bloomberg. The series is hosted by Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg's Head of Economics and Politics, who will be joined each week by her colleagues in Washington D.C, Wall Street and beyond to discuss the impact of the Trump administration's economic policies and plans on the global economy.
• Trump’s Terms was launched by NPR in late November - a rebrand of the previous show, Trump's Trials. Host Scott Detrow curates NPR's reporting, analysis and updates on the people wielding power in President Trump's second administration and the policies they are pursuing — from his closest political advisors to cabinet secretaries and top military leaders.

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• Exclusive: On Air Fest has revealed its 2025 schedule, which it calls the most expansive lineup yet. The event, between Feb 19-21 in and around Brooklyn NY, will include more than eighty performances, podcast tapings, panel conversations and workshops. Among the third wave of featured talent announced today is Anderson Cooper, Jemele Hill and Anna Martin. There is also an invite-only Podcast Business Summit with Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman. This will be the event’s eighth year. Tickets are available on the website.
• Podcast monetisation company Audioboom published a 2024 Trading Update. In 2024, the company beat analyst forecasts to show an EBITDA profit of $3.4mn. Total revenue for the year was up by 13% to $73.4mn. The company has signed new content partnerships and renewed existing ones, but also managed to reduce minimum guarantee obligations by more than $3mn. The company’s CEO, Stuart Last, joins us in the Podnews Weekly Review this Friday.
• For the first time, the Australian Podcast Ranker has a clear, uncontested #1. ARN’s iHeart is number one for podcasting in podcast publishers and in sales representation. It comes as the BBC, represented by ARN’s iHeart, joins the Australian Podcast Ranker for the first time. The BBC is the tenth biggest participating publisher, with 3.3mn downloads. (The ranker is calculated using monthly listeners; the #1 publisher for monthly downloads remains the ABC, who’s podcasts are commercial free in the country.)

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• Sounds Profitable unveils new research today. With American Public Media, The Business Podcast Consumer looks at the audience for business podcasts, and what makes them different to the audience for any other genre. It’s a free webinar at 3pm Eastern: you can register here.
• Radio and podcast directory service TuneIn has apparently made another 25 layoffs this week. Earlier this month, TuneIn erroneously removed a number of radio stations in the UK; and as Podnews covered in December, the company hasn’t accepted new podcasts for almost twelve months after multiple rounds of layoffs. Along with the TuneIn app, companies like Amazon, Apple, Google and many auto manufacturers rely on TuneIn’s directory.
• Is video podcasting just making podcasting even harder for women? Neil Veglio returns to our story from Jan 1 about the gender bias in video podcasting.

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• New on Airwave: How Success Happens tells the inspiring, entertaining, and unexpected journeys that influential leaders in business, the arts and sports traveled on their way to becoming household names.
• All 50 states of the USA produce wine - and Wine Across America, which launches today, is dedicated to educating wine lovers about the amazing wines being produced across the country, featuring engaging interviews with winery owners, winemakers, and wine industry experts. It's hosted by Alan Kraft and Sandra Guibord of Bin 113; and the first two states are Virginia & Maryland. Bad news, though: we've checked, and there is no wine produced in Greenland. Canada, though? Yes, lots.
• New today from iHeart is Arroyo Grande with Raymond Arroyo. In each episode, through surprising conversations with celebrities, thought leaders, and culture-makers, Arroyo unearths life lessons, practical advice, and inspiring examples to live by. Guests coming up include Frankie Avalon and Mel Gibson.
• The Boston Globe's Love Letters is back for a new season. This season focuses on the possibility of change. Host and longtime Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein will attempt to answer the complicated questions: Can people really change? And if so, how?
• The Louis Theroux Podcast returned for a new season yesterday. Louis kicks off series four with a wide-ranging conversation with screen legend Willem Dafoe. Other upcoming guests include scandal-hit Armie Hammer, popstar Jade Thirlwall, Sharon Horgan, UFC champion Leon Edwards, Jamie Oliver and 'Hot Ones' host Sean Evans – the man usually asking the spicy questions himself.

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