Recent Trends and Announcements in the Podcast Industry

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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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