New York Festivals 2025 winners announced

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• The New York Festivals Radio Award winners were announced for 2025., which include podcasts as well as radio shows. Broadcaster of the year was CBC/Radio-Canada. The Lever’s investigative podcast Master Plan was awarded the prestigious National Press Club Award.
• Nick Quah chats with YouTube’s Tim Katz (“a vice-president who oversees partnerships across different sectors — news, civics, health, education, kids’ content — including, now, podcasts.”). Katz describes a podcast on the platform as “listenable content — so, content that’s video optional,” and says that “if you look at the top podcasts in the US, almost all of them are on YouTube”, although Podtrac told us in February that only half were.
  • Podnews said last week that the new-look YouTube podcasts homepage in the US was editorially curated. It isn’t, we’re told; just a different algorithm.
• The biggest podcast sponsors are more likely to sponsor true crime podcasts, says Rephonic in new analysis. 35% of shows have sponsors (similar to 34% for shows in all genres).

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