Acast delivers $44.9mn to creators down under

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• Since launch, Acast has paid over AUD $44.9mn (US $28.6mn) to creators in Australia and New Zealand, the company has revealed. It recently signed big-hitters Casefile True Crime and Toni and Ryan.
• Podscribe will reveal the Q4/2024 Performance Benchmarks report in a webinar tomorrow. Podscribe attendees will get the new data, from Podscribe, a week before everyone else. It’s free to sign up. (This time yesterday, we covered this story but got the name of the company wrong - not for the first time. Humble apologies: your editor is an idiot.)
• Magellan AI will also run a webinar on Thursday, with detail from that company’s Benchmark Report.

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