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• Spoken word audio continues to grow, with younger audiences (13-24) listening to more than twice as much spoken word in the last eight years, says The Spoken Word Audio Report 2022 from NPR and Edison Research. Podcast's share of time with spoken word audio has increased by 163% over the last eight years. The report is published in full on National Public Media's website.
• Apple has published a set of insights about paid subscriptions on Apple Podcasts. One-third of all new subscription sign-ups are for annual plans, the company says, and if you're making a serialised show, subscribers are 20% more likely to finish it.
• Spotted: Adobe's Project Shasta, which we first spotted in Dec 21, appears to now be called Adobe Express Podcast. It's a podcast editor that lets you "edit words, not waveforms", and is in early preview.

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• Ashley Carman has analysed Spotify's podcaster contracts. The company offers a 50% revenue share, which is below some similar creator splits.
• The Normal Gossip podcast is responsible for 2,500 paid subscriptions to Defector Media's website, the company says.
• Ad network Gumball is now paying podcasters faster: podcasters now get paid within days rather than, as is usual, having to wait 90 days or more. (Despite being called LightningPay and featuring a lightning bolt, it isn't related to the Bitcoin Lightning Network).
• Jemele Hill is to expand her podcasts on Spotify with the launch of the Unbothered Network, and two new shows.
• Bytedance (owner of Resso and TikTok) is hiring for a Podcast Business Development role in Los Angeles. Hmm.
• Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy is no longer doing his podcast, The Dave Portnoy Show. He says his show was terrible. "I'm not going to do content that I know stinks," he added.

• What's in a name? Pacific Content write about how the company chose the title for a recent show.
• How to remove background noise in Audacity for cleaner podcasts

• From Lemonada Media: FIRST! - A funny show hosted by comedian Kareem Rahma that highlights spectacular people who had a serious impact on society and culture because they were FIRST!
• Podland News this week has an interview with Dylan Pugh from the Sports Podcast Network. An ex-Spotify executive, he suggests that exclusive podcasts don't work: and that exclusives on the service are a short-term play for the company. Episode 99 of the podcast, Sam Sethi and Podnews editor James Cridland make suggestions throughout that episode 100 might sound a little different. Whatever can they mean?
• How many podcasts do you listen-to which are 100% whispered? Sleep Whispers has published more than 450 episodes, and now has more than 2,000 ratings on Apple Podcasts and 5 million total downloads. Shhh.
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• Audioboom's Q3 revenue is down by 5% year-on-year, according to the company's latest trading update - even though it saw a 9% increase in downloads. Revenue per thousand downloads is down by nearly 9%, and the number of brand advertisers has dropped by 10%. The company blames "headwinds impacting advertising demand".
• The Triton US Podcast Report for September was released. NPR News Now returns to #1. Stitcher Media remains #1 network.
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• The UK's Podcast Radio could be coming to the US, after an announcement this week at the NAB Show New York. The format will be available for radio stations to rebroadcast on AM/FM and HD.
• Spotify now indexes 5,523,475 podcasts, according to an app notification. We notice that Distractible was the #1 show on Spotify yesterday in the US, rather than Rogan.
• Americans spend more time with audio on mobile devices than radio receivers says Edison Research.
• Sounds Profitable has a deepdive with TAP, the Triton Advertising Platform. The platform recently hit v2.0 with a number of new features.
• Pacific Content's Annalise Nielsen writes about What brands need to know about subscription podcast feeds.
• Spooler has launched Spooler Affiliate Cloud, a tool for organisations who syndicate audio. The first client is FOX News Radio - affiliates can now use FOX audio cuts to power breaking news shows.
• Crooked Media is to launch Pod Save The UK in early 2023. The show will be hosted by Nish Kumar. The news coincides with the news that another British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, has resigned.
• In Australia, LiSTNR has reached one million signed-up users. It launched eighteen months ago.
• Production company Blanchard House has signed with Audible to create two original non-fiction eight-part series.
• The Webby Awards are open for entries - the 27th annual Webby Awards have five new categories for podcasting this year. The early entry deadline is Fri Oct 28.
• Facebook is to stop supporting Instant Articles, their proprietary replacement for RSS.

• With Lemonada Media: TikTok superstar V Spehar sometimes needs more than a minute to bring you the news! The Under the Desk News creator offers funny, insightful commentary every Tuesday and Friday on V Interesting.
• SiriusXM has signed an exclusive agreement with The Rachel Hollis Podcast for distribution and ad representation. The show includes candid interviews with top performers in business, media, and lifestyle, as well as deep dives into topics like health and motivation.
• Podland News this week interviews Neal Veglio about the art of podcast editing. Unusually, you'll find the interview - twice - in the podcast: you can listen to two different editors' treatment of the interview and choose the best.
• The Active Voice has launched a new podcast of conversations with the most interesting writers and thinkers working today. It's hosted by Hamish McKenzie, co-founder and chief writing officer at Substack.

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• A Canadian politics podcast is releasing a special episode on cassette only. Just fifty will be made. The show is 48 minutes long: based on our extensive knowledge of cassettes, it looks like after 24 minutes you'll need to turn the tape over to keep listening.
• The popular iOS and Android podcast app Pocket Casts has announced its mobile apps are now open source. "Now, everyone can help make it even better by reporting bugs, suggesting new features, and submitting Pull Requests for current issues." It's shared under the Mozilla Public License (FAQ).
• In New Zealand, NZME is celebrating hitting 50 million annual downloads. The company is #1 in the New Zealand Podcast Ranker; and uses the iHeart brand in the country.

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• From Lemonada Media: Every day, the world seems on the brink of crisis. In In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt when overlapping crises and a relentless news cycle overwhelm Americans, Andy finds the right helpers to help us move forward together.
• The Mo Show is an English-language podcast from Saudi Arabia, featuring interviews with tech entrepreneurs, a boxer, a female rapper, and more from the country. Mohammed Islam moderated a panel yesterday at the Ignite podcast creator conference in Riyadh.
• Good news, everypony! My Little Pony: The Podcast is finally here - narrated by Popstar Princess Popp Petals and her trusty producer Jazz Hooves. Hoof to heart, Acast are doing their part with Hasbro - friendship is magic, after all - and a new adventure waits for us every week until mid November. Be a true, true friend to the little ones in your life and get playing it right across Equestria. etc.
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• In the UK, the MIDAS Summer 2022 survey has been published by RAJAR. It suggests a new high of 19% of adults (10.5m) listening to podcasts every week (for a total of 69m hours). Podcast listening is 58% male in the country; and peak time for podcast listening is around 9am.
• YouTube is rolling out enhanced advertising to podcast listeners. Advertisers will now be able to place up to 30" audio spots, and narrow their campaigns to specific genres.
  • YouTube's podcasts homepage is currently unavailable outside the US; though the company announced audio ads will be rolled out globally.
• Spotify has added free access to Podsights and Chartable for Megaphone customers in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. The company has also announced that Reach plc is the latest publisher to join Megaphone and the Spotify Audience Network.

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• Michael Mignano, co-founder of Anchor, was interviewed by the University of Delaware, ahead of a lecture he's giving on Friday.
• The Australian Podcast Ranker for September was released. SCA says LiSTNR is #1. ARN says its iHeartPodcast Network is also #1. The ranker doesn't measure the ABC, which is probably #1.
• In India, a new brand of podcast microphones, Audio Array, has been launched.
• Grab the L&P and a chocolate fish, and prepare your winning shows: the New Zealand Podcast Awards now close for entries this Thursday Oct 20 at 5pm. Meanwhile, the Latin Podcast Awards winners were announced and Osher Günsberg has been named Chair of Judges for the Australian Podcast Awards.
• And, Spotify has decorated its New York office with statues of cats - called "podcats". We're told that "one of the cat statues wears goggles and holds a test tube, which represents Spotify’s podcasts on science."

• Chris Colbert, Jay Green and Arielle Nissenblatt have been announced as new board members at The Podcast Academy.
• Scot Herd has joined DailyWire+ as SVP of Ad Revenue.

• Jay Clouse spoke to Podcast Bestie about how to make a good video podcast.

• From KSL Podcasts, and Lemonada Media, The Letter is a true crime series that follows the tragic events that sent shockwaves through a community and the shocking twist that followed.
• Is there a connection between mental illness and creativity? Gil Kruger's Mentally Gil: Conversations with Creators speaks with YouTubers and other content creators about their experiences with mental illness. It's a unique look into the personal lives of these people who share so much of their lives on the internet.
• Con Juan is a new podcast out tomorrow, about one of the biggest con-men in the world. The hosts Darrell Brown and ex Met Detective Christian Plowman look at ‘Con Juan’s life, starting right from the beginning in 1993, where orphan Juan Carlos Guzman-Betancourt fell out of the plane at Miami Airport. They trail Juan Carlos across the globe until they eventually track him down and arrange a meeting at a casino in an undisclosed location. Will he turn up?
• What if California left the United States? If it did, what would happen? Would it usher in a new era of peace and prosperity? Or plunge the US into a new civil war? The Last Resort is new from Warner Music Group’s in-house podcast network, Interval Presents, and looks at Calexit, the campaign for Californian Independence, and how the movement’s founders became entangled in a global criminal conspiracy involving the FBI and Russian Intelligence. It's new today.
• 70 Million has just posted the trailer for what will be its final season. For five years, the narrative documentary series chronicled how locals are addressing jail reform around the country.

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• Podcaster Alex Jones has been told to pay $964.2m in damages after repeatedly telling harmful lies. Alex Jones's show Infowars was removed from Apple, Spotify, YouTube and Facebook in 2018 for promoting violence and hate speech, though is still available via RSS. He's indicated he'll appeal; his company has filed for bankruptcy.
• First look: In Canada, sports media company Playmaker has signed a monetisation and distribution deal with Acast.
• Stats from the Google Podcasts Manager seemed to have frozen on Sep 28, according to a number of readers. We alerted Google, who tell us it's now been fixed. (While Google's play numbers are low, the SEO advice it gives is helpful: here's where to claim your feed.)

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• Live365 streaming stations will now be able to be distributed to 30 million listeners on TuneIn. Live365 deals with music licensing and monetisation; the company's owner, SoundStack, was launched in April and also sells podcast ads.
• Podvine, a hosting platform and player, shared an investor update. The company's podcast hosting platform is achieving 3.2m downloads monthly.

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• Fyona Smith, formerly Head of Radio & Podcasting for AFTRS, is moving to Ireland to be Managing Editor for Today FM.

• Writing about Podcasting's paradox of choice, Steven Goldstein suggests making your show easily scannable by getting the description right.
• Want to become a podcast editor? Podbean is running a free online event on Thu Oct 20.

• From Lemonada Media: Raised by Ricki looks back on and re-examines the groundbreaking Ricki Lake Show. Hosted by award-winning talk show host Ricki Lake and television personality and digital creator Kalen Allen.
• Proper Australians wear R.M.Williams every day (and so does our Editor even if he's just a pom). R.M.Williams OUTBACK Great Australians is hosted by OUTBACK Senior Associate Editor Terri Cowley, and has in-depth interviews with some great Australians away from the bright lights of Australia's cities.
• Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord is new today from Lionsgate Sound, G-Unit Audio and iHeartPodcasts. Speaking publicly for the first time ever with co-hosts Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and investigative journalist Charlie Webster, Chicago-born identical twins Jay and Peter Flores let listeners into how they went from dealing $2 billion worth of drugs to government informants who brought down the infamous drug lord, “El Chapo.” The trailer is available now.
• Avery Trufleman's Articles of Interest is back for a new season, called American Ivy. “I was only planning on making one episode devoted to preppy clothing,” says Trufelman. “But, this story ended up being so surprising, so impactful, and so resonant, that it changed my entire idea of what trends are and why they spread.” The seven-part season starts on Oct 26.

Pod Bible magazine issue #23 (read it here) has a very excellent page 25. Sponsored by Audible and Acast, it's 36 pages of excellent podcasts, and half a page of hastily laid-out advertisement for your favourite daily podcast newsletter.

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• Popular podcast platform Ausha ('Oh Sha') has launched in the US. The hosting platform, used by more than 7,000 podcasts in France, includes a social media manager, one-click sharing to YouTube, and monetisation options.
• Does podcasting have an ad frequency problem? In Sounds Profitable with Podsights this week, Bryan Barletta works with Podscribe to discover how big the problem really is.
• Adnan Syed is innocent. After spending 23 years behind bars, all charges against him have been dropped. His innocence will be formally certified. His case was followed by Serial and Undisclosed.

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• Popular open-source Android podcast app AntennaPod has launched v2.7, including a new view called "the inbox", allowing you to add episodes to the play queue or remove episodes completely.
• Press Gazette writes about Tortoise podcasts being the most profitable part of the company. Tortoise, a slow news product, now has twelve staff working on podcasts.
• Written by Siobhán McHugh (and with input from Podnews's Editor), The Power of Podcasting: telling stories through sound is now available in the US and Europe, published by Columbia University Press. We gather that CUP20 gets you a discount. In Australia and New Zealand, it's published by UNSW Press.
• SiriusXM is to open new, state of the art studios in Miami FL, with a 50-seat performance space. It also owns studios in West Hollywood CA, New York City NY, Washington DC and Nashville TN.
• How much does a podcast cost to make? Dustlight Productions founder Misha Euceph explains a "super lean" price for a weekly show: $244,000 for a year.

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• Jeff Rowe has been hired as VP, Programming for Southern California Public Radio, who own KPCC and LAist. He joins from NPR.

• Should You Start a Podcast in an Oversaturated Market? (Blubrry)
• How to Create a Podcast that’s Scary Good (Libsyn)

• From Lemonada Media: On Funny Cuz It’s True Elyse Myers interviews well-known individuals about their most awkward moments. Relentlessly unfiltered and relatable, we’ll laugh at and learn from the moments that keep us up at night.
• Best Friend Energy is new from Sony Music Entertainment, The Home Edit, and Hello Sunshine. It's a weekly show, hosted by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, The Home Edit co-founders and the New York Times bestselling authors.
• Within Men In Blazers and Pod Save The World you'll find World Corrupt, a new show focusing on the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which it says is ethically fraught, morally bankrupt and already soaked in blood and oil. It launched earlier this week.
• Running Smoke launches today. It's described as a white-knuckle true story about fast cars, organized crime, and a NASCAR driver changing the future of Native rights. It’s hosted by journalist Rajiv Golla and it’s a co-production of Dan Patrick Productions and Campside Media.
• In the Tribeca Audio Premieres podcast feed today, a new audio-drama podcast makes its debut. Lake Song, an epic audio-drama series set in the distant future of Make-Believe Association’s home city, Chicago, looks at the city in 2098, when the Republic of Chicago has what the world needs: fresh water. Expect sci-fi and music, politics and poetry.
• Look Again: Mental Illness Re-Examined is, say the producers, "for anyone whose life has been touched by mental illness. In other words, it’s for everyone". By the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society, the show returns for season three today, and sets out to illuminate and help build compassion and better understanding for individuals and families affected by severe and persistent mental illnesses like schizophrenia.

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• Podcast production tool Alitu is now also a podcast host. Hosting is free for the first 1,000 downloads a month.
• Octave, a joint venture between Bauer Media and News UK, has launched podcast ad sales for over 1,000 shows and 100 million impressions.
• Production company Chalk + Blade has a new website.

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• Almost three-quarters of podcast listeners in Poland in 2022 used YouTube to listen. Spotify was used by two in 10 respondents.
• Fun fact: in the US since Sep 22, Joe Rogan has only been #1 in Spotify for three days. Rogan's deal with Spotify expires at the end of 2023.
• Three shows have joined Patreon to offer listeners exclusive content - Reasonably Shady featuring two of the stars from Real Housewives of Potomac, Gizelle Bryant and Robyn Dixon; Hawk vs Wolf, with radio personality Jason Ellis and professional skateboarder Tony Hawk; and Girls Next Level, with Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt, the stars of the E! network’s iconic reality show The Girls Next Door.
• AdLarge will be kicking off the "Future is Female" track at Advertising Week next Monday.

• Sarah McVeigh is joining Schwartz Media as head of its audio division. She joins from Gimlet and the ABC in Australia.
• Millie Webber has been appointed as Head of Digital for Spirit Studios in Brighton. It's the latest in a set of hires for the company.

• From Lemonada Media: Add to Cart is hosted by Kulap Vilaysack and SuChin Pak. From beauty products and health trends to celebrities and philosophies, they dig into anything we buy into and what it says about who we are.
• Todd Cochrane's Geek News Central Podcast turns 18 years old this week. The first episode of the show was recorded on Oct 9 2004 in a hotel room in Waco TX. It was one of the first shows to launch using the word "podcast", and is up to episode 1,628.
• The Europeans celebrates its fifth anniversary next month. Co-hosts Katy Lee (British, lives in Paris) and Dominic Kraemer (British, lives in Amsterdam) will be marking the milestone with interviews with major European leaders.
• How much did you know about NBA at the age of 15? Sloane Knows is hosted by Sloane Weinstein, a teenage NBA fan who knows the game inside and out and is now interviewing some of the biggest names from the famous franchise’s past and present to jog their memories. Produced by Jam Street Media, it's a biweekly show for all sports lovers.
• Blood & Gold is a new audio fiction podcast from Realm, which gets a general release on Thursday. The show stars Richard Cabral, and is the story of how Joaquin Murrieta becomes a legend in 19th-century California.

Spotted on the back of a number 29 bus in London by Adam Bowie, this ad for the Say What! Podcast Big Pappa J, a show hosted on Anchor. This ad cost around £750 (US $827) for a month.

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Is it time to re-think promo codes? Writing in Sounds Profitable today with Podsights, Tom Webster publishes the second set of data from a recent study of podcast advertising execution. The finding? We know promo codes work: but there might be a better way of using them.

• Spotify has acquired platform safety company Kinzen. "The technology the Kinzen team brings to Spotify combines machine learning and human expertise - backed by analysis from leading local academics and journalists - to analyze potential harmful content and hate speech in multiple languages and countries." Kinzen is based in Dublin, Ireland; no terms were given.
• Spotify's Podsights ad measurement service has launched in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. The company is also testing Podsights tools on audio ads in music, partnering with Omnicom Media Group in the UK.
• Acast held a "Capital Markets Day". The fast-growing company described itself as "the Wordpress of podcasting": it offers 5 ads in each show, though just sells 28% of them (p50); and about half their biggest shows aren't monetised at all (p14), so plenty of room to grow. The company is achieving $22 CPM.
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• The Hollywood Reporter has published the 40(ish) most powerful people in podcasting.
• In the US, iHeartRadio is still #1 for podcasting according to Podtrac's publisher data for September. Numbers are slightly down, but that's misleading - September has 3% fewer days than August. It's an incomplete ranker, measuring participating publishers only.
  • In the company's top US podcast ranker, Serial made a re-entry following its new episode last month. The top five were unchanged.
• A profitable podcast business is for sale on Microacquire: Podnews understands this product is Rate This Podcast.
• In a podcast entirely generated by artificial intelligence - and probably kicking up quite some ethical questions - Podcast·ai has made a show where Joe Rogan interviews Steve Jobs.
• In France, the Choses à Savoir podcast network achieved a new record audience in September with 5.8m listens.
• Further reading: Nicolas Ivanov from Vizzy discusses The Reimagination Paradox and how we overcome innovation limitations in podcasting, arguing that better support for chapter images would achieve significant growth for podcasting … Meera Kumar argues there needs to be a one-year blanket ban on the production of true crime podcasts …

• Want to know how to start a sports podcast? Here’s your game plan (Acast)
• Three methods brands can use to get inside the heads of podcast listeners (Pacific Content)

• From Lemonada Media: On Funny Cuz It’s True Elyse Myers interviews well-known individuals about their most awkward moments. Relentlessly unfiltered and relatable, we’ll laugh at and learn from the moments that keep us up at night.
• In the weekly review podcast Podland News with Podnews's Editor James Cridland and Sam Sethi, the very excellent Skye Pillsbury talks about her podcast newsletter The Squeeze.
• The Mel Robbins Podcast launches today. The motivational audio creator and international best-selling author has signed a multi-year deal with SiriusXM which gives SXM Media exclusive global ad sales rights.

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• Apple Podcasts is still in the lead in Australia, according to new data from the Australian Podcast Ranker, revealed at Podcast Day 24. Apple accounts for 46% of all downloads for shows in the ranker, according to the data; Spotify for 19%. The data covers over 750 million downloads for the year ending June 2022.
• Kim Kardashian has been fined $1.26m for promoting cryptocurrency without disclosure launched a new exclusive true-crime podcast with Spotify. It will look at Kevin Keith, who was convicted of a triple homicide in 1994. Kardashian is studying to be a lawyer.
• In Australia, SCA's LiSTNR has announced an agreement to represent Stitcher and SiriusXM inventory in the country. This will increase LiSTNR's monthly podcast reach by 81%.

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• 13 Minutes to the Moon is returning for a third season - presented by a former NASA astronaut. Kay Hire will tell the story of the Space Shuttle, having flown on two Space Shuttle missions and having worked an an engineer.
• Need a new show to listen to? New Podcast Trailers is available in your favourite RSS podcast app, and contains trailers from lots of new shows.

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• Spotify released a Fan Study for podcast creators. Fans who "follow" (aka subscribe to) your podcast will listen to 4x the number of episodes of those who don't, says the data; and episode completion rate varies from genre to genre, with true crime and fiction podcasts having the highest completion rates (at about 87%), while tech shows have one of the lowest (about 72%). Also in new research, The State of Branded Podcasts 2022 Report was released by CoHost, a podcast hosting company. Two-thirds of branded podcasts post every week, says that data.
• The winners of the 17th annual People's Choice Podcast Awards were announced. 5.7 million listeners participated. The winners of the Gotham/Variety Audio Honors were also announced.
• There has been a jump in the average CPM for podcast advertising, according to Libsyn's AdvertiseCast: the average is now $24.35, the second-highest on record. It's up 3.7% month-on-month, or 5% year-on-year.

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• Anchor continues to lose market share for total podcast episodes released last month, according to Livewire. The podcast hosting platform was responsible for 22.2% of all new podcast episodes in August, the lowest figure recorded.
• London ad-agency AudioPlus has signed with Veritonic to use its attribution solution. It'll enable the agency to measure ROI of client audio ads.
• Excitement for Hocus Pocus fans, as it was revealed that a musical is on the way. The big reveal was apparently in the podcast The Art of Kindness; though… actually you'd have heard the news a year earlier by listening to The Big Seance, in episode 195.
• Huberman Lab is to launch a paid subscription on Supercast. The show is consistently rated #1 in its categories; the new Premium subscription offers additional content.
• New word: showcast. CBS has launched a "showcast" for The Young And The Restless. It's the audio track from the popular daytime drama set in Genoa City.
• Transistor is now supporting host and guest credits.
• In the UK, October's Pod Bible magazine was released inside some copies of The Sunday Times, and is available to read online. It features interviews with cover star Brett Goldstein from Films To Be Buried With and Jolyon Rubenstein from The New Conspiracist. There’s also Helen Bauer picking her top 5 shows, and regular columns from Acast, Audible, Stak and Apple Podcasts. We like page 27.
• Podcast recommendation newsletters are working on a Podcast Riddle Challenge, and the first two riddles dropped this weekend. You could win a fancy Sonos speaker.
• Joe Rogan is no longer #1 in Podnews's Ranker. 40% of our mentions of people were of women in the 90 days to the end of September.

• Lucinda Treat has been hired as Crooked Media's first CEO. She joins from Vice Media Group, where she was chief legal officer. Crooked Media has also announced an investment from George Soros, the amount of which was undisclosed.
• Emily Krumberger has joined FRQNCY Media as Associate Producer. She joins from radio, and is finishing a certificate in Documentary Studies from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies.
• Katie Klimacek has joined FRQNCY Media as Graphic Designer. From Chicago, she has also worked as a freelancer.

• To improve the open OPAWG useragent list, Podnews has produced a live tool that uses the data to give the apps used for 1,000 OP3 audio requests.
• SATurn, the Alby view into boostagrams, now shows complete boost amounts, so you too can thank someone for a Rush Boost.
• Podping, a method of faster notification of your new episodes, is now supported by PowerPress. The Blubrry publisher "is not far behind", Todd Cochrane tells us.
• Even without PowerPress until now, Podping is continuing to grow in use. "Of the 1.66 million new episodes published in September, podping found 11.6% of them first", says John Spurlock.
• Transistor's new support for host and guest credits also includes support for the podcast:person tag.

• From Lemonada Media: Good Sex asks duos of all types to open up to each other about pleasure, intimacy and what turns them on. Listen to hear intimate chats and playful moments between friends, lovers and everyone in between.
• In the latest episode of Content is for Closers, FRQNCY Media's CEO, Founder, and Executive Producer, Michelle Khouri, spoke about branded podcast networks and innovative audio strategies.
• The latest edition of Podtastic Audio talks to Podnews Editor James Cridland - about working in radio and podcasting, and how he came up with Podnews in the first place.
• Smart Money Happy Hour with Rachel Cruze and George Kamel has debuted at #1 in its category in both Apple Podcasts and Spotify. The show talks unfiltered about what’s going on in the world, pop culture, and how to afford a life you love.
• Emperors of Rome is celebrating episode CC tomorrow with a live recording at ACMI in Flinders Street Melbourne, Australia. It seems only yesterday that they did episode CXCIX. Anyway, the live event (it's free) looks at Anthony and Kleopatra - how they fought against Octavian, brought about the end of the republic, and the start of a new age for Rome. The live show looks at their love affair, their war together, and their defeat.
• UK television personality Lorraine Kelly has launched a new podcast, Paws to Talk, looking at the positive influence dogs have on social isolation. It's sponsored by MORE THAN and charity Dogs for Good, and launched yesterday.

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