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• Spotify has announced that there will be a season two of Batman Unburied. Speaking in a panel "live from Spotify Beach at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity", Spotify's Chief Content and Ads Business Officer Dawn Ostroff (above, right) announced that a second series had received a greenlight from the company. The first season was made available on May 3 in nine languages, and quickly hit the #1 spot in eleven markets for more than two weeks. Ostroff described podcast storytelling as "an incredible experience - calling upon each person to be more engaged".
• iHeartMedia was also at Cannes, "on the iHeart Yacht". Topics covered were diversity and representation, LGBTQ+ visibility and NFTs in media, launching its first NFT-hosted show; while at a party, Sam Smith sang and Paris Hilton did an exclusive DJ set (not that exclusive, though, eh, Podcast Movement Evolutions attendees?)
• Acast+ has announced an integration with Facebook. It allows Acast+ subscribers to offer members-only Facebook groups, as a launch partner of new Facebook functionality. Patreon offers a similar integration with Discord.

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• Sounds Profitable's The Creators - research into the people who make podcasts - was released early to sponsors yesterday. The public presentation is in a webinar on June 28. As a sponsor, we can tell you that there are some surprising discoveries.
• SquadCast has released a sneak preview of the redesigned SquadCast Studio and Backstage. Next week the Podland podcast will have a full interview with the co-founders, and the show will be co-hosted by SquadCast's Arielle Nissenblatt.
• Audio clean-up service Loudness.fm is now out of beta. It's a service that reduces background noise, balances levels, and makes it the right loudness.
• Edison Research's Gabriel Soto is to speak at Podcast Movement, "presenting the opportunities that Edison Research sees for podcasters in 2022". Podcast Movement has announced another set of speakers for their event in Dallas this August. (We note that Kai Chuk from YouTube is also slated as a speaker.)
• Podcasts are more popular in larger markets, according to a US study. 31% listen weekly in the largest media markets in the US (like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago), but weekly listeners fall to 17% in smaller markets (like Fargo, Bakersfield and Amarillo).
• The International Women's Podcast Festival was last weekend. PodBible's Francesca Turauskis writes about her day.
• Writing in his Stratechery newsletter, Ben Thompson notes that "over half of my subscribers now listen to the updates [as a paid podcast] instead of reading them", and that the Spotify app accounts for 33% of his plays. He adds that this has "strengthened my personal conviction that there remains considerable upside in the podcast market broadly".

• AdsWizz and Simplecast were at The Podcast Show, and have posted their sessions on their website, including panels about podcast monetisation, podcast advertising for brands, and working with IP.
• What’s the best way to create podcast intros? Kate Erickson has plenty of ideas - including clarifying who your podcast is for, and why they should listen.

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• From Post Script Media: Every food decision is a tradeoff for the planet. In the premiere episode of Climavores, journalists Tamar Haspel and Mike Grunwald answer a complex question: What should we eat to be responsible humans on a warming planet? The answers aren't always obvious.
• You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet has joined ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia. The show, with comedian Peter Helliar, features chats with celebrity movie lovers about classic and beloved films they haven’t quite got around to seeing… until now.
• New Home is new from Australia's SBS this week. Hear from migrant and refugee women who are quietly building new lives in regional Australia, making friends, and finding community - setting the record straight from the sensational headlines, fear campaigns and dehumanising language that's part of the conversation about migrant and refugee communities settling in Australia.
• My Cat’s Tale is brand new from Ewan Spence, a BAFTA-nominated podcaster. It's the tales of cats who have found their forever home and owners who have taken them into their lives, sometimes in surprising ways.

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Here's a huuuge billboard in Times Square, New York NY, USA spotted by Sarah Bentley for SXM's Huuuge Fan. It's promoting LaChina Robinson's latest guest, Anthony Ramos, who's a NY-based actor that, Mamamia tells us, "everyone is talking about".

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• Podcast app Fountain is now rewarding people for listening to shows with Bitcoin, which they can then share with their favourite podcasters as "value4value". They more people listen, the more they get - and the more they can share.
  • For listeners, we've added Fountain as a place to listen to podcasts in our podcast pages today (like this for Podland); and we mark shows like this that accept value4value.
  • For podcasters, Fountain has made it easy to collect Bitcoin support for your show: download the app (on iOS or Android) and claim your show.
  • The app also produces shareable clips and supports other Podcasting 2.0 features.
• More views of Twitter's new "podcasts" menu item have surfaced from Twitter user @wongmjane. We don't know what it'll contain; it appeared, in March, to show podcast episodes shared by users you follow.
• In New Zealand, Spotify is testing a tool to record a podcast directly into the Spotify app according to a Kiwi tweet from the company.

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• Podcast publisher Post Script Media has raised $2m in a funding round, and has announced a set of new shows. They've been sponsoring our Podcast News section this month.
• Crooked Media is making coffee now. Crooked Coffee is ethically sourced, packaging is recyclable, and helps raise funds for the nonprofit Register Her. "What A Morning" coffee is designed to accompany What A Day.
• The 5th annual Canadian Podcast Awards are open for nominations. There are thirty-one categories; you've until July 13 to enter.
• Michelle and Barack Obama's production company, Higher Ground has signed a multiyear deal with Audible. No details were shared. In February, we heard they were leaving Spotify. Audible's content is normally hidden behind a $7.95 paywall.
• Musician Ben Lee and actress, painter and director Ione Skye have launched The Weirder Together Podcast Network with Acast, according to an email from the company.
• Readly, a digital magazine and newspaper app, has launched podcasts on its app for iOS users. Podcasts listed are from participating magazines and newspapers.

• Brian Egan has been named Director of Digital Content and Strategy for AdLarge. He also produces podcasts for The Athletic, and co-founded a podcast network in 2017.
• Steven Cohen has joined Crossover Media Group as VP of Business Development and Partnerships. He'd been with Cadence13 for seven years.

• Holidays are coming - what should you do with your podcast during the break? Blubrry has some ideas, including best-of episodes, or just telling your audience you're taking a break.
• "Could you make it sound a bit more like jeans?" JAR Audio write about choosing the right piece of (licensed) music for your podcast. They ask - will it complement the dialog? Or compete with it?

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• From Post Script Media: Climavores is a show for eaters who are trying to navigate the complex relationship between healthy food and a healthy planet. Hosted by journalists Tamar Haspel and Mike Grunwald, they explore the complicated, confusing, and surprising relationship between food and the environment.
• Alzheimer's disease affects 1 in 9 people globally. Alzheimer’s Podcast is launched today by Mission Based Media, to hear insights and information for those who are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and the people who care about them.
• The Martha Stewart Podcast is new today from iHeartRadio - Martha will sit down with influential people she has met along her successful and storied career, discussing their paths to the top and the lessons they have learned along the way. Her first episode, released today, is with Snoop Dogg.
• The podcast all about language, The Allusionist, is doing live shows in Australia next month: all the big cities, like Sydney, Melbourne, um, Canberra and, well, Adelaide. Helen. Australia's third biggest city says hi, Helen. Hello! We're up here! You know, where the Olympics will be in 2032? Begins with a B. Anyway, the show is also in Auckland in New Zealand (pop 1.65m, which is significantly smaller than 2.3m, but make your own choice, don't mind about us).
• The Sound Off Podcast has Arielle Nissenblatt as its latest guest. "I want more podcast listeners. I want more people to listen to podcasts, and more people to listen to podcasts regularly", she says to Matt Cundill, and we discover she is a big fan of 107.1 The Peak.

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Here's a billboard in Pittsburgh PA, USA, spotted by Jeff Rutherford for the ABGC podcast - a "riveting tale of half-human half-animal characters abducted by the military and forced to live on a grim space station, where they are surgically altered and ordered to pilot their space ships to defend Earth and its surrounding space from hostile invaders".

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• Erica, a Strategic Partner Manager from YouTube, has published a video with tips about posting podcasts on the platform. She talks about how to upload audio-only shows, monetisation, and suggests that you make a playlist for your podcast episodes. She ends "We'll keep you posted as we develop more tools for podcasters on YouTube".
  • In March, Podnews posted leaked plans from YouTube's presentation to some podcast partners. We're expecting more news sometime over the next two months: YouTube was very visible at the recent Podcast Show in London.
  • Thanks to the Great British YouTubers Podcast for the tip.
• Podcasts with guests get more listeners, according to new data from Rephonic. They're also, as you might guess, longer.
• German podcast website podcast.de posted results of a survey. Unusually, nobody in this research claims to listen to podcasts on YouTube. Knowledge and Education is the genre that does best; and most people listen while driving.

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• UK podcast production company Message Heard has signed with CAA.
• The London Podcast Studios in Holborn have shown off their new look. They took the opportunity during the pandemic to invest in their studio setup, including videography and LED display screens.
• The Tribeca Festival is to launch its own podcast network, called Tribeca Audio.
• The GoodPods app now has a comments feature.
• ROCKNPOD, planned for next month in Nashville TN, USA, has been moved to April 2023, "due to a spike in COVID cases here as well as record-level heat".
• Podcasts have inspired many of this year’s highest-profile TV dramas, says Screen International. The long-form article looks at TV producers and their attitude to podcasts.
• Nominees for the British Podcast Awards will be announced tonight. For the first time, there will be ten nominations per category.
• Ian Coss, Producer and Sound Designer at PRX, is the curator this week for the EarBuds Podcast Collective - posting five episodes from podcast musicals.

• Marketing your podcast isn't a "once and done" thing - Lauren Passell posts three things that busy podcasters can do every week.
• Brittany Duggan from Pacific Content has posted a number of lessons from one of their podcasts, Red Hat's Command Line Heroes. Among the ideas: listen to your audience, and try paid promotion on other, similar podcasts.

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• Audiobookshelf is an open-source self-hosted audiobook and podcast server, with features like Chromecast support and apps for Android and iOS.
• Will Hagle posts How Uploading an Album as a Podcast Could Take Back Control From Big Streaming, highlighting Black Star's release of a new album on Luminary.
• Music Casting is a new website to help musicians to use Value4Value and new podcast apps to release their music for all.
• RSS Feed Best Practices isn't written with podcasting in mind, but does include a lot of useful information if you're coding your own.
• The Mere Mortals podcast supporters page shows all their supporters to the Mere Mortals podcast. Currently produced manually from an Excel sheet produced by Satoshis Stream, it's a really nice idea.

• From Post Script Media: Hot Buttons is a show about the future of fashion and culture on a changing planet. Each week, Christina Binkley, Rachel Kibbe, and Shilla Kim-Parker unwind the breaking news, industry moves, cultural trends, and tech breakthroughs that are shaping sustainable fashion. The fashion industry is one of the world’s biggest polluters. Can we change it?
• Sleep With Me is, according to a new study, the top podcast to help you sleep. The study data used a number of metrics including total subscribers on Castbox.
• The Women Of Ill Repute is brand new, from veteran Canadian broadcasters Maureen Holloway and Wendy Mesley. They'll welcome as guests a variety of women who are proud to be difficult - from renowned restaurant owners to famous judges, entertainment hosts and artists. The show launches today with multiple episodes, including Mary Walsh and Jody Wilson-Raybould.
• The New Conspiracist looks at conspiracies across the world, with comedian and BAFTA winner Jolyon Rubinstein and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball. They are joined by expert guests to unpack one specific conspiracy theory, from the frankly ridiculous but enjoyably escapist (the pyramids were built by aliens) to the somewhat believable and eye-opening (the truth behind the lack of pockets in women’s clothes). A new season launches today.
• If you like learning about new podcasts in Podnews, you can now get this section as a podcast itself. New Podcast Trailers is available in your favourite RSS podcast app.

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• In Sounds Profitable this week with Podsights, Tom Webster discusses the three different podcast rankers out there: and whether the calculation of total audience from them is accurate.
• Talking of which, Podtrac published its latest podcast rankers. iHeartRadio is still #1 network, though the company doesn't measure SXM Media. The Daily is still #1 podcast. There is no change in the top 5 of either ranker.
• Spotify is taking a number of podcast hosts and producers to the Cannes Lions Festival later this month.

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• Tascam has released the Mixcast 4 Podcast Station, a product that will inevitably be compared to the RØDECaster Pro II.
• Quartz look at the past, present and future of podcasting.
• Gumball has signed Almost Adulting with Violet Benson to its roster.

• Kara Swisher is to leave The New York Times and return to Vox Media, and will host a new interview show there.
• In Podjobs today, Acast is hiring for a Managing Director for Acast UK and Ireland.

• At the Paris Radio Show this week was a session discussing how to finance a podcast. One panelist suggests monetisation happens after four years of producing the show.
• Podcast growth strategist Jeremy Enns posts a Twitter thread about how to use the right marketing tactics for your podcast.

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• From Post Script Media: The Carbon Copy covers our shifting carbon-based economy, one news story at a time. Host Stephen Lacey covers climate change through the lens of business, technology, culture, and politics, to explain how the planet is transforming.
• Hot Money: Who Rules Porn? is new today from the Financial Times and Pushkin. It produces about a tenth of internet traffic; and the show looks at a business few people really talk about and who controls it.
• Healthy Thinking is a brand new podcast from Life Sciences Hub Wales, exploring some of the most interesting and important topics impacting health and social care innovation. There is also an accompanying Welsh language podcast.
• Spotify's Parcast premiered its latest new series Healing with David Kessler, a new podcast exclusively on Spotify. Host David Kessler is an international best-selling author of six books.

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• Better data is coming to every podcaster. As we've documented in the past, many different apps use a useragent called AppleCoreMedia to request podcasts, making it hard for podcasters, and podcast hosting companies, to know which app is really downloading them. iOS 16 will fix that: AVURLAssetHTTPUserAgentKey has just appeared in Apple's documentation for the next version of iOS, allowing all podcast apps to correctly state their user agent. Developers can adopt this today; there will be a public beta in July; and this will roll out for everyone in Q3. Expect us to grumpily highlight apps who don't bother with it.
  • Buzzsprout's global stats don't include AppleCoreMedia, under-estimating downloads from Apple Podcasts. On the other hand, Libsyn's stats wrongly attribute all traffic to AppleCoreMedia as Apple Podcasts.
• International publisher and event company Haymarket has bought the company behind the British Podcast Awards, and similar awards in Ireland and Australia. Haymarket has plans to expand its position in audio.
• Headliner now supports direct sharing to TikTok, as well as YouTube playlists.

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• PodcastOne is to take two of its biggest podcasts live: Jordan Harbinger and LadyGang will produce live video podcasts from Las Vegas as part of a deal with auto manufacturer Hyundai.
• Sports podcaster Religion of Sports has raised $50m in funding.
• In Ukraine, indie podcast community Radio Podil had to stop during Russia's invasion. Here's what's happening there now.
• Resonate post a review of the Vocaster Two from Focusrite.
• Adell Coleman, chief operating officer of DCP Entertainment, is the curator of the EarBuds Podcast Collective this week, highlighting shows supporting the LGBTQ+ community.

• Kate London has been named SVP, Head of Music Legal & Business Affairs at Audio Up. She moves from a similar role at Global Music Rights.
• Maya Prohovnik has been named Head of Talk at Spotify, replacing Michael Mignano. She was employee #1 at Anchor.

• Launching a paid ad campaign for your podcast starts with finding the right audience, says Pacific Content
• What makes a great podcast host? We Edit Podcasts suggests that confidence and a willingness to learn are important.

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• From Post Script Media: Climate change is not a distant science story. It's a story about how everything in our carbon-based economy works — and how it's getting reworked. The Carbon Copy is a weekly news analysis podcast that explains the changing planet through the lens of current events. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
• Chatter that Matters, hosted by Marketing Hall of Legends Tony Chapman, features chats with people who do extraordinary things, despite often challenging circumstances. Coincidentally, Tony will be introducing Podnews's Editor onto the stage at Canadian Music Week this morning, but this mention in Podnews is in no means trying to curry favour with him.
• Geopats Podcast goes global this month, with Mae Thomas from Maed In India in this week's show, an upcoming appearance from Tony Doe in Nigeria and two more to come.
• One of the UK's best-known broadcasters Nick Grimshaw has launched a podcast, Dish, with the chef and restauranteur Angela Hartnett OBE. The show starts tomorrow with the stars of hit TV show, Ted Lasso - Hannah Waddingham and Phil Dunster.

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• First look: Buzzsprout, the world’s second largest podcast host, has just formally announced Buzzsprout Ads, letting podcasters buy adverts for their shows (and other podcasters to earn revenue).
  • Curious how they sound? Listen to Podland this week for an interview with Dave Jones from the Podcast Index, and some ads automatically inserted by Buzzsprout Ads.
• Top executives are deserting Clubhouse. Four senior leaders have quit the company in the past two months, as downloads slow dramatically.
• Later today, Sony Music Entertainment will announce two new shows for The Binge subscription channel - Witnessed: Friendly Fire and Fringe Network: Alien State. All episodes of both shows, ad-free, have been added to the channel.

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• Eight new nominees for the Latin Podcast Awards have been announced. Registration is still open.
• PodBible magazine published issue 21. The UK print magazine, available in railway stations and in some copies of The Sunday Times, is free to read online, and features Suruthi Bala and Hannah McGuire from true crime podcast Redhanded.
• Data: In Belgium, podcasts are more popular than ever, reports The Brussels TImes. The research was gathered by Ipsos.
• In Austria, the Ö3 Podcast Festival took place in Vienna. German website Radioszene explains what you missed - Google Translate is your friend.
• If you're on Twitter, you've probably seen little cartoons about podcasting from Erik Jones. Courtney Kocak's Podcast Bestie newsletter interviews him about them.
• Resonate Recordings were at The Podcast Show in London, and wrote up their highlights.

• Twitter has added a page explaining how best to use Twitter for podcasters. The company recommends Twitter Spaces for community, and Super Follows or Tips for revenue.
• Squadcast look at "10 ways to get plugged in to the world of podcasting". We're one of them!

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• We'd like to put together a big list of podcast apps that use AppleCoreMedia as a partial useragent. Work for a podcast host? Able to help us work out rough percentages of total downloads for this useragent?\
• The only global statistics produced to the IAB standard, Buzzsprout's download stats suggest that Apple Podcasts is still growing. Apple had 40.7% of all downloads in May, vs Spotify's 25.3% (and Google Podcasts's 2.5%). Separate data from other sources suggest that Spotify reaches more people, though.
• Our hosts changes page (we removed the ceased podcasts from there, which confused the graph) shows a large amount of shows switching from Anchor to Megaphone.
• Got Alby? Our front page, and recent pages in our archive, now let you sent sats directly to us using Alby.

• From Post Script Media: Climate change is not a distant science story. It's a story about how everything in our carbon-based economy works — and how it's getting reworked. The Carbon Copy is a weekly news analysis podcast that explains the changing planet through the lens of current events. Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
• The Commune is new from Stuff today, telling the story of Centrepoint in Auckland, New Zealand’s notorious free-love community. It's a powerfully moving inquiry into how well-meaning people can talk themselves into doing terrible things and why, even decades later, the battles over Centrepoint’s true legacy continue.
• In Podcasting 2.0 this week, Adam and Dave chat with Nic Ivanov from Vizzy, and also say nice things about Buzzsprout Ads within Podland.

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• Exclusive: Spotify has quietly changed its platform rules to add a section prohibiting promotion of "violent extremism". The updated rules also ban content with "instructions or instruction materials to commit an act of violent extremism", as well as content containing financial requests for funding such groups. A definition of violent extremism isn't given, but it comes after more than two hundred mass shootings in the US so far this year. The bottom of the updated rules page also links to what actions may be taken if you don't follow the rules - until now, a hidden page discovered by NiemanLab in April.
• Congratulations to the Sit With Us podcast, which is the #1 podcast in Australia on Spotify, and the #3 in Apple Podcasts. Produced by Pro Podcast Production, it shows that a great trailer is all you need, quite literally - because that's all there is. More than a million followers on social, for the reality TV stars who host it, also helps.
• Podcast Movement has announced Criminal's co-creator Phoebe Judge as a keynote speaker at the upcoming Podcast Movement 2022 in Dallas, TX. (Podnews will be there.)

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• Blubrry has emailed its podcast hosting customers that the company is ready to launch programmatic advertising for every Blubrry Podcast hosting customer. Watch your email for the link to opt in. The company has also announced annual billing.
• The Vocaster interface from Focusrite comes with six months free access to Acast's Influencer hosting plan. It also interfaces with Hindenburg, and the studio bundle also comes with licences for the audio editor.
• Spooler has revealed a new feature - "share a story" allows publishers to share individual stories from their shows on the platform. Spooler is now being used for the Fox Weather Update, and the Cerca travel app is also using Spooler technology, the company has said.
• Podfriends calls itself "the first NFT project dedicated specifically to audio enthusiasts". It's a utility NFT, offering discounts on future events: 0.5 ETH is about US$900.
• WNYC Studios has signed with UTA to sell its shows to movie makers and TV companies.
• SquadCast v5 is on track to launch sometime in June, the company says in a blog post, which teases some of the new features.
• Vox Media's union is threatening a strike. A search for #VoxContractNow on Twitter shows the strength of feelings; the company publishes, among others, The Verge, Hot Pod, and Today, Explained.
• Quentin Tarantino is to host a podcast, alongside Roger Avary, with SiriusXM's Stitcher. "The Video Archives Podcast" will launch in July.
• How successful has the podcast studio at the Wynn in Las Vegas been for Blue Wire? The company's CEO says it's been vital, in an interview for Awful Announcing.
• Apple Podcasts Connect will be unavailable for up to three three hours on Sat Jun 25 from 6.00am PDT. We've got your back - we'll remind you the day before.
• True Native Media has published its IAB Upfront event for all to watch.
• Comedian Bo Burnham has been listening to a famous podcaster.
• Spotify plans an Investor Day next Wednesday, by livestream. It's open to everyone.
• After its shares were suspended in April, Libsyn has confirmed it is no longer a publicly-listed company, telling Podnews in a statement: "The Company agreed to the deregistration of its shares with the SEC. When it completes its financial audits, the Company intends to re-register with the SEC and re-list on an exchange. The shareholders who purchased shares when it was publicly listed retain their exact same number of shares and proportional ownership interest in Libsyn as a private company." The company's ad business grew more than 50% last year, and it has hired additional financial staff, below.
• Pre-promoting the release of The Smart Audio Report 2022 on June 16 (free registration), Edison Research has shared the below graph, showing there's still plenty of room for podcast listening to grow on smart speakers.

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• Libsyn has hired Steve Thorn as Global Director of Tax, and Mike McHugh as Director of SEC Reporting and Technical Accounting.
• Danielle Kramer has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Exactly Right Media.
• Dimana Zaharieva has been hired as Programmatic Automation Manager at Acast UK+. Also an accomplished artist, she'd been with ad-planning agency Wavemaker.
• Paul Greenberg has joined Meet Cute as President and COO. He joins from A+E and digital video company Butter Works.

• Four ways to monetise your podcast, from Eric Clark, includes affiliate marketing and merchandise. (RedCircle, this section's sponsor, can probably help too, #justsaying)
• We Edit Podcasts highlights thirteen steps for attracting new listeners for your podcast. Starting a blog and encouraging listener interaction are two of them.

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• In Podland News this week, Sam interviews Dave Jones from the Podcast Index, with an update on the work that Podcasting 2.0 is doing.
• The latest episode of Indie Podcaster talks to Podnews's Editor, James Cridland - Jeff Townsend discusses James’s career in radio and starting Podnews; and they also talk about comparing indie podcasts to mainstream ones.
• Clear Impact Podcast is a show from PGT Innovations, who make premium windows and doors, intended to educate dealers and industry professionals about its products: and the company has just released the 50th episode, looking at Innovations – Past, Present, and Future.
• LGBTQ Pride Month marks the final chapter of a year-long investigation into the horrific murder of two lesbian hikers along the Appalachian Trail in Appalachian Mysteria, an investigative podcast from Jam Street Media. There's much more to the story, with the series also revealing the “purges” and court-martialing of gay women in the Navy, and the slaying of a former Naval officer and her partner along the Colonial Parkway.
• Mercury’s Wake is a brand new serialzed audio drama, based on original fiction with elements of mystery, comedy and suspense. The cast have worked on Broadway, TV, stage, and film; and the show's character John K Mercury is also performing at the Edinburgh Fringe.
• Call Your Grandmother returns for a new series, after a nomination for the Ambie Awards earlier this year: the podcast celebrates Jewish grandmothers and the irreverent qualities that make them natural comedians.
• What's going on in the Ukraine, really? Dana Pavlychko used to work in Kyiv, and her podcast, OSNOVY SHOW, is now carrying stories of the war from other Ukrainians.
• Oldest podcast guest corner: Podnews reader Pablo points out that Argentinian health podcast VIVIR 100 AÑOS interviewed a 97 year-old. That might be the "oldest podcast guest in an Argentinian podcast" (do we really have to go there?!), but as we know by now, he's a comparative youngster to the 107 year-old we mentioned yesterday.

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• Focusrite launched the Vocaster: a dedicated podcasting audio interface for podcasters. The device is designed explicitly for podcasters, offering auto-gain and voice presets. (There's a video, and more pictures, in the press release).
• Sounds Profitable announced the Business Leaders Summit, in collaboration with Podcast Movement on Tuesday, Aug 23, in Dallas TX. The summit is built with four sessions: new research, successful measurement, video and programmatic. People at companies that sponsor Sounds Profitable, like Libsyn's AdvertiseCast, get in for free.
• In Bloomberg, Ashley Carman reports on Spotify podcasters making $18,000 a month with nothing but white noise.

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• New RØDECaster Pro II units are being shipped ahead of its release: but they won't work until release day, June 12.
• Data: Bruno Guglielminetti reports on a new survey about podcast listening in Québec, Canada. 30% of Québécois adults regularly listen to podcasts.
• Six shows from Evergreen Podcasts have won the 2022 Communicator Award of Excellence.
• Futuro Media has received a major grant from the Mellon Foundation to support second seasons of its Pulitzer Prize winning podcasts.
• Podchaser Pro users with the Sponsors add-on can now access brand pages for the top 2,000+ brands. Users can see how many times a brand has sponsored the top 5,000+ podcasts and the brand’s estimated ad spend for each show.
• Headgum has acquired the Too Scary, Didn’t Watch video podcast, and launched a new show called Keepin' It Rel. Average weekly downloads for its Headgum Original podcasts have increased 50% year-on-year, the company says.
• EditEddy was launched on Product Hunt. The service makes audio editing simple - upload your spoken word audio, get a transcript, and then edit your audio by editing the text. Here's a video demo.
• ThoughtLeaders is to open a podcast recording space in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• The number of podcast episodes using Chartable, Podtrac and Podsights prefixes has increased. Of the top two, Chartable was seen on 4.87% of all episodes in May; Podtrac on 4.49%.
• In May, Omny Studio overtook Podbean to become the #5 podcast hosting company, measured by new episodes. Anchor is still #1, with 24.3% of all new episodes - a figure that dropped by over 6%. Amazon Cloudfront is still the most popular podcast CDN (including us!); Cloudflare a distant second.

• Camilla Byk, the founder of Podium​.me, a media network for young people, has been awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

• Remahtullah Sheikh from Pacific Content talks about the right way to work on podcasts with clients, and branded storytellers to work best. He was speaking at Radiodays Asia last year.
• How to choose the best podcast keywords - SEO is a thing for podcasting too, and Spreaker tells us how to describe your show.

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• In January 2018, Chris Bombardier climbed the highest mountains on each of the seven continents: already an achievement, but especially one for someone with severe haemophilia, a condition that means his blood doesn't clot properly. The Final Summit is a series for adventurers, bleeders and anyone who's ever chased a dream.
• The CyberWire is partnering with Dragos for Control Loop: The OT Cybersecurity Podcast. Control Loop provides key insights and best practices from OT cybersecurity thought leaders that will bridge the gap between IT and OT cybersecurity in the industrial industry.
• The Piketon Massacre, called one of the best new podcasts by Vulture last year, has just launched season three. With trials starting and local residents opening up for the first time, we’re finally getting a glimpse into the night in question and perhaps more importantly, the minds of a killer family.
• Oldest Podcast Guest Corner: In this hitherto light-hearted feature this week we have arrived at a 105 year-old guest who we thought might be the oldest podcast guest. A producer for Radiotopia's Radio Diaries has been in touch, pointing out that the show recorded 107 year-old Joe Newman in 2020. In an email entitled "Fact Check", we were told our feature was "inaccurate" and a correction was demanded. Here it is, oh bringer of dark clouds and extinguisher of sunlight and fun.

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