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- Podtrac has published its Top 25 new US podcasts for 2024, from its participating publishers. The NBC News show Mortal Sin, from Dateline, is #1; Wondery has six shows in the list.
- Podtrac has also published a top 10 global list for the year - Diary of a CEO is #3, The Daily is #2, and #1 is... Joe Rogan.
- Triton’s US Podcast Ranker was released. The data is here - there’s no change to the top five. It measures participating publishers only.
- “Podcasting is one of the most powerful tools we have for connecting European stories.” Eurowaves, a new podcast newsletter focusing on podcasting in Europe, has launched. In its first issue, it speaks to Andrea Knezevic, Communication Manager for WePod.
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- BuzzFeed has sold “First We Feast”, the makers of Hot Ones, to a consortium including Crooked Media. The sale was “an eight figure deal”.
- Vox Media’s Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway Dec 11 episode contained some numbers from Scott Galloway about his podcasts, Oscar Trimboli has spotted for us. Pivot will bring in $10mn revenue this year. Prof G does $6mn, but is growing 40% a year. Raging Moderates might do $2mn next year. “Those are not big businesses,” he says, “but they are ridiculously profitable once you get to a certain point”, since they have fixed costs - so if you cover those costs, he says everything else is profit.
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.fm has added an AI-powered creative studio, and integration with Google’s DV360. - PodcastOne has added a number of new shows, and now has a slate of 194 shows. It has added 54 shows this year.
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- As things slow down for the holidays, perhaps it’s time to do a backup of your stuff. Here’s how to store all your podcast files, and what we do.
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- The Empty Coffin, a weekly deep-dive into the paranormal, true crime, supernatural folklore and dark history, releases a new episode today all about Ghost Stories for Christmas. From Dickensian classics to the dark unknown, Tony Walker joins the podcast's host Greg Hansberry to rekindle the eerie charm of a forgotten holiday custom.
- NPR's comedy podcast How To Do Everything helps write the ending to a children's book today - using best-selling thriller authors Gillian Flynn and James Patterson. The book is all about an umbrella named Bella who hates the rain.
- "On the first day of business, The Business Owner’s Journey gave to me - a quick episode with some actionable insights." The podcast is ending its first season with twelve days of business, some quick-fire episodes with fresh insights and highlights.
- Have you ever wondered what your life could be like, after you’ve hit your rock bottom? Would you try to dig your way out, and get back to the surface? In the new audio drama comedy, Unf--- Your Life, Tog Chesterfield shares what happened on the way down to their own rock bottom, and how they try to dig their way out.
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