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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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- 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
PODNEWS10saves 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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