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Apr 25, 2025 • 6min
The Daily gets two new co-hosts
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From the New York Times, The Daily, one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is to get two new co-hosts. Natalie Kitroeff and Rachel Abrams will join Michael Barbaro as co-hosts, as Sabrina Tavernise returns to a reporting role. Rachel hosts today’s episode. “Natalie and Rachel are the perfect journalists to take us into this new chapter,” said Barbaro.
Today is DNA Day, and also the launch day for Gene Pool Media, a new podcast network dedicated to healthcare and genetics. The new network brings together some of the most influential voices in science to reshape how scientific stories are shared.
BBC Studios has announced a partnership with The Podcast Exchange in Canada. TPX will be its exclusive third-party advertising reseller for BBC podcasts in the country.
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Apr 24, 2025 • 3min
YouTube is 20
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YouTube is twenty years old this week (YouTube Music is ten years old this year, too). The company has posted plenty of new stats on its blog.
Hamish & Andy, who present one of the biggest podcasts in Australia, have signed a renewal deal, early, with LiSTNR owners SCA.
After the NASDAQ warned Cumulus Media that it might be delisted, Cumulus has announced that it will move off the stock exchange on May 2, “rather than investing time, effort, and cost into developing a plan to remain”. Its share price needed to be at least $1; its shares are down 90% over the last twelve months, and are currently trading at $0.27. Its Q1/25 results are out on May 1.
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Apr 23, 2025 • 4min
Daily Mail launches premium true crime podcasts
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DMG Media has launched a new true crime podcast subscription, The Crime Desk (“the home of arresting podcasts” - we see what they did there), which launches today from the owner of the Daily Mail. In a pre-launch period, it’s gained subscriptions “well into the thousands”; the team has eight full-time staff and another dozen freelancers. (It uses Supporting Cast).
Global and iHeart Podcasts have been unveiled as headline partners of The Podcast Show London next month. Podnews is a media partner; and we’ve a full list of who’s involved - the code PODNEWS10 saves money on selected passes.
Evan Davis, a BBC radio presenter, has been asked by the BBC to stop hosting The Happy Heat Pump Podcast. The BBC is a complicated beast - we’ve written a full story to explain why.
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Apr 22, 2025 • 4min
Exclusive: Webby Awards podcast winners
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Exclusive: Podnews lists podcast winners for the 29th Annual Webby Awards today, including awards for Dan Taberski’s Hysterical, Conan O’Brien, New Heights and SmartLess. In our list, you’ll also see hosting companies and be able to listen to the trailers.
Exclusive: The podcast website tool Podpage lets anyone get a great looking website for their podcast; but today for Elite annual members, they’re announcing free podcast website design services - free design polish based on your podcast artwork, and a free live design review with the Podpage CEO for expert design advice.
Podscribe released its top podcast publisher ranker for April, with Acast and iHeart showing big audience growth in the top 5; and top podcast rankings for April, with NPR News Now and On Purpose with Jay Shetty both seeing more than 20% growth.
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Apr 21, 2025 • 5min
Podcast ad revenue smashes through $2bn
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Podcasting is now a $2bn ad industry in the US - earning a total of $2.4bn in US podcast ad revenue, in 2024. “This rebound is driven by continued expansion of podcast networks, deeper brand integrations, and advancements in audience targeting,” said the IAB / PwC Internet Ad Revenue Report. In total, internet advertising revenue hit $258.6 billion in 2024, its highest since 2021. The report is a free download.
The theme music from Noiser’s Titanic - Ship of Dreams is, like all Noiser podcasts, crafted by the company’s in-house music team. Noiser has published a behind-the-scenes video of how it all worked - including a wheelbarrow, an oil heater, and some hammers. The show started to be released earlier this month, and has topped the charts in various countries. You can get ad-free listening and early access to new episodes here.
Video podcasts got a mention in Netflix’s earnings call by Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, says John Wordock. Here’s the clip.
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Apr 18, 2025 • 5min
Spotify’s Maya Prohovnik: “you’re going to be thrilled”
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People are spending 44% more time looking at Spotify’s app than last year. “The demand for podcast audiences for video is undeniable at this point,” says Spotify’s Maya Prohovnik in an exclusive interview with the Podnews Weekly Review today. “For almost all shows who have switched from audio to video, they're making more total revenue,” she told us; and when questioned on claims earlier in the week that creators lose features when they switch to video, she told us: “I think that's the wrong way to look at the big picture. If you are already making video content, or if you're thinking about expanding to video, you're going to be thrilled by the outcome of SPP” (the Spotify Partner program).
Prohovnik also told us that Spotify is working to improve ad measurement and third-party attribution. “We acknowledge that gap, we see it, we agree with the problem and so we're working on that.”
The Cut covers podcasts being made by tweens. Most shows mentioned in the piece are video only - on Cameo, Instagram, Tikok and YouTube.
Congratulations to Leo Laporte and all at This Week in Tech, which celebrated its 20th anniversary on Apr 17. Originally called “Revenge of the Screen Savers”, here’s episode 1: “a 56kbps MP3Pro file weighing in at around 14MB”.
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Apr 17, 2025 • 5min
Podcast Show London announces new speakers
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The Podcast Show London has confirmed new partners and speakers, including Gary Lineker and Jack Davenport from Goalhanger, and Alison Lomax from YouTube UK & Ireland. Also announced as speakers are the team from FlightStory Studio: the team behind Diary of a CEO, Begin Again, and We Need to Talk - who’ll take to the stage with a session called “The Creator Economy is Dead. Welcome to the Era of Creator Entrepreneurs”. Our Editor is also speaking, and you’ll be able to watch the Podnews Weekly Review record live on-stage at the end of the event.
The event has also announced many live podcasts, as part of the Podcast Show LIVE festival.
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Spotify was down for over five hours yesterday. “Spotify experienced an outage today beginning around 6:20am EDT. As of 11:45am EDT, Spotify is back up and functioning normally,” a spokesperson told Techradar, which live-tweeted the incident.
Patreon announced live video which will roll out in the next few months. Creators can go live through the web, or via the Patreon mobile app. Podcasters earnt $472 million on Patreon last year, the company says. You can support Podnews on Patreon.
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Apr 16, 2025 • 4min
Women’s podcast listenership triples
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Women’s podcast listenership has tripled in ten years, according to the Women’s Audio Report: Women & Podcasts released by Edison Research and SiriusXM Media. 45% of all women in the US (60mn) are monthly listeners; and 52% consume podcasts in some form (whether listening or watching).
Sounds Profitable's Tom Webster is hosting a free webinar today at 2pm Eastern, examining ad-supported podcasting compared to other ad-supported media. It’s the largest cross-platform study of its kind, and is the first to isolate the audience for ad-supported podcasts - which is different to the overall podcast audience.
Acast has announced an exclusive, global podcast deal with The Athletic. The Athletic is currently #8 publisher in Podtrac, and its premium sports podcasts will be monetised across audio and video.
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Apr 15, 2025 • 4min
Spotify invests in international audiobooks
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Spotify announced that it is investing €1 million ($1.14mn) to increase the production of audiobooks in non-English languages, starting with French and Dutch. “In France, we are continuing to bring a younger, more diverse audience to audiobooks, with nearly 60% of listeners aged 18 to 34 accounting for over half of all listening hours,” the company says.
But, what is an audiobook? Some successful podcasts are reading out public domain stories, or works to which the podcaster has the rights. However, don’t think that monetising these podcasts-as-audiobooks is going to be easy: we’ve heard from one podcast network who acquired a successful story podcast only to discover that Spotify’s SPAN wouldn’t monetise it at all. The company’s monetisation policies say that earning money is restricted for content that “is a written work by authors read aloud without the addition [of] original content”.
Acast has signed a former Spotify exclusive show. The Receipts Podcast, hosted by Tolani Shoneye and Audrey Indome, launched in 2016, is also releasing episodes on YouTube, and will soon “launch its own dedicated studio setup”.
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Apr 14, 2025 • 6min
Goalhanger adds women’s football show
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She shoots - she scores. Goalhanger, the largest independent podcast company in the UK is to release a new show tomorrow - The Rest Is Football: Daly Brightness, a new show hosted by England women footballers Millie Bright and Rachel Daly. Promising a deep dive into the heart of women's football, it’s the second brand extension from Goalhanger - the first, The Rest Is Politics: US, was launched a year ago.
Futuro Media has launched Futuro Plus, including an expansion of the podcast company’s shows and ad-free access. The company is using Supporting Cast.
The shortlist of the sixth annual Publisher Podcast Awards has been released. The winning podcasts will be decided by over fifty judges from across the world. There is also a Publisher Podcast Summit on the same day, Jun 11, in London.
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