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Jan 31, 2025 • 5min
PodcastOne adds ART19 hosting to its shopping cart
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PodcastOne is to switch hosting to Amazon’s ART19. It had been using the relatively unknown Nox Solutions as a podcast host. The Podcast Index suggests Nox Solutions hosts around 1,277 shows - 1,077 of which are with PodcastOne and Launchpadone.
Docusign is the latest company with a new sonic logo. In this case, it’s described as a “red thread” that runs through all of Docusign’s marketing (and, we hope, podcast advertising). We’ve a few examples in the press release, and another in our podcast.
SiriusXM shared the company’s 2024 results. “What is working? Well, wouldn’t ya know it… it’s podcasts.” says Chris Peterson, in his analysis of the numbers. He adds that “it’s time for independent publishers to control their own monetization”.
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Jan 30, 2025 • 4min
UK Political Podcast Awards winners
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The winners of the UK’s Political Podcast Awards were announced. Podcast of the year was Goalhanger’s The Rest is Politics, but Persephonica’s Political Currency and Electoral Dysfunction from Sky News won two awards. Acast shows won the most awards.
Yesterday, we linked to a presentation from German podcast marketers and publishers promoting the benefits of audio-only podcasts. It was in German. Sadly, viele Menschen sind faul und sprechen keine anderen Sprachen. The good news is - it’s now also available in English.
How does Acast market itself to potential advertisers? By podcast advertising, of course. The company has shared a bit of knowledge of how they do it.
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Jan 29, 2025 • 5min
More listeners than ever to podcasts in US
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There are more listeners than ever to podcasts in the US, according to new data. The Triton Digital 2024 US Podcast Report also suggests that YouTube continues to be the most “preferred” platform for 33.1% of all podcast listeners, while Apple Podcasts has slumped to a new low: preferred by just 12.2%. The data, which is a free download, also contains more detail about the US Podcast Ranker.
Video podcasts are “not equally sensible and beneficial for all podcasts“. A group of German podcast marketers and publishers have worked together to produce a white paper explaining the benefits of audio-only podcasts. Advantages include better distribution, and monetisation, and audio podcasts have a 150% higher listen-through rate than video podcasts.
There have been a number of layoffs at SiriusXM, impacting the podcast teams and Earwolf. Podnews understands that 100 roles were impacted, representing 2% of the workforce, along with a number of changes to the company’s structure. The CEO Jennifer Witz called it a “profoundly challenging day”. One of those included is Amelia Chappelow, who was Executive Producer at Earwolf.
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Jan 28, 2025 • 5min
Spotify launch recognition for most-streamed shows
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Spotify has launched Creator Milestone Awards, which will be given to podcasts that reach particular streaming levels on Spotify. It’s the first time Spotify has publicly revealed streaming numbers for podcasters across the platform. Like YouTube, award recipients will be hand-delivered a physical Spotify plaque.
Gold (500mn+ lifetime streams) includes Joe Rogan, Crime Junkie, Armchair Expert and Last Podcast on the left, but also two German podcasts. One of those, Gemischtes Hack, only has 285 episodes: so each episode has been played an average of 1,750,000 times, just on Spotify. (And even more impressive, when you know there are only about 120mn native German speakers.)
There are 13 Silver (250mn+ lifetime streams) awardees, including Call Her Daddy and The Daily, two Spanish podcasts, one German and one Portuguese.
There are 83 Bronze (100mn+ lifetime streams) awardees. Podcasts in “emerging markets” get Bronze after just 50mn+ lifetime streams.
SiriusXM has pulled its video versions of Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy from Spotify along with other Unwell Network shows. The shows will be viewable on YouTube and the SiriusXM app. Cooper posted on Instagram saying that you can watch on YouTube “for free”.
How do you make podcast advertising work better? Don’t make the ads dull and boring. Ads that have emotion or are otherwise interesting can work more than six times better than boring ones, according to a set of research compiled by Westwood One’s Pierre Bouvard. There’s a PDF, a video, and a white paper to download.
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Jan 27, 2025 • 6min
The best podcast hosting company is…
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Buzzsprout is the best podcast hosting company, says TechRadar in a review that also gives special credit to Podbean, Libsyn, Captivate and Transistor.
Kamala Harris’s podcast strategy fell way short of Trump’s, says Ashley Carman: Harris didn’t appear to focus on a cohesive list of shows, which didn’t share similar audiences - making it hard to hit the same talking points. The article is in the latest edition of her Bloomberg newsletter, Soundbite.
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The IAB suggests in its 2025 Outlook Study of ad buyers that growth of podcast ad spend will slow this year, and its market share will drop. Total advertising is set to grow by 7.3%; podcasting will just beat that, at 7.4%.
And, in a surprise, S&P Global Market Intelligence suggests that the US podcast industry won’t top $2bn in revenue until 2032. The IAB suggest it hit $1.9bn in 2023.
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Jan 24, 2025 • 4min
How Apple Podcasts works with podcasts in China
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Exclusive: Apple Podcasts has made changes to the way it makes podcasts available in China. Working with podcasters inside China, Podnews has learnt that Apple is now able to remove specific episodes from shows, and that those episodes are hidden from users even if a user tries the RSS feed in the Apple Podcasts app.
As two examples: Lex Fridman has 22 recent shows removed; the Joe Rogan Experience is missing eight recent shows.
We’ve written an availability checker for Apple Podcasts, to understand what is available where. More details in the article.
Evolutions 2025 has announced a set of new speakers for the event in Chicago IL, on Mar 31 - Apr 3. Reflecting video’s part in the podcast space, Evolutions will have a Video Village, presented by YouTube. Use code PODNEWS to save on selected passes.
Podcast studio Filt has announced a reorganisation, including consolidation with Finland’s Suomen Podcastmedia, and the launch of Filt Nordics across Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. The companies are backed by PodX Group.
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Jan 23, 2025 • 3min
The US podcast manosphere
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Nine (all male) podcast hosts interviewed Donald Trump last year, helped swing their mostly male audience to a Republican win in November. You’ll have seen many of them at events for the inauguration last weekend (with Joe Rogan in the room while Donald Trump was sworn in). A group of reporters at Bloomberg, including Soundbite’s Ashley Carman, reviewed nearly 1,300 hours of footage to reveal what they talk about, how the network works together, who they appeal to, and how they’re now building support for Donald Trump’s political agenda. Here’s a gift link to read the whole thing.
KQED has launched a “real time” news podcast called The Latest, which updates dynamically throughout the day with the latest news. The podcast is built using technology from Spooler, which launched in 2022.
The Podcast Show London tells us that prices are going up on Feb 1. PODNEWS10 saves money on selected delegate passes. Podnews is a media partner; our London-born Editor is on the advisory board.
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Jan 22, 2025 • 5min
Acast scores New Zealand’s biggest interview podcast
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Exclusive: The Between Two Beers podcast, New Zealand’s most popular long-form interview podcast, has signed a multi-year deal with Acast. The partnership will include ad and sponsorship opportunities on the audio podcast, video podcast and associated social channels. The show was previously with NZME.
Reasons to be cheerful: at Signal Hill Insights, Paul Riismandel is optimistic about podcasting in 2025 - pointing out that much has changed in the ten years since Serial. Not least - there’s a 3.4x greater chance of finding an audience in 2025 than in 2014.
“You’re not buying enough podcasts”: Cumulus Media’s message to advertisers in the company’s 2025 Audioscape. No brand is coming close to saturating podcast audiences, says Pierre Bouvard.
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Jan 21, 2025 • 3min
Planning for PodCamp Toronto
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Above: Spotted at the Greater Toronto Area podcaster meetup last week, John and Jennifer from the Canadian Podcast Awards, and Arys Déjan, host of The Who & How Club. They’re preparing for PodCamp Toronto next month.
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.
The US certainly seems to be locked-on to shows from the Locked On Podcast Network. The company claims 358 million listens and views in 2024; an increase of 20% year-on-year. Podnews understands that the company’s Locked On College Sports channels grew by over 50% on the year; and projected total listens and views in 2025 should be over 400 million.
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Jan 20, 2025 • 4min
The 2025 Podcast Hall of Fame ceremony, in full
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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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