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July 07, 2025Crossed Wires podcast festival gets Python exclusive
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In what is probably the biggest podcast festival in the world, the second edition of the Crossed Wires Podcast Festival took place over the weekend in Sheffield, UK.
Michael Palin performed never-heard-before Monty Python material on stage in his hometown to a packed audience, in a chat hosted by long-time fan Greg James. Palin recited the deleted end scene of Life of Brian.
The second day saw an on-stage proposal taking place in the recording of Help, I Sexted My Boss. She said yes.
We’ve pictures of the weekend, including the conversion, for the event, of the former Coles Brothers store in central Sheffield.
A new tool for podcasters, the Podcast Knowledge Library launches today. It builds on the popular MethodKit for podcasters, which serves as a roadmap to podcast development, production and distribution. The kit is available in 42 different languages.
A new tool lets advertisers make a podcast ad in minutes. Klaxon AI says it can generate broadcast-ready ads with no recording studio, voice talent, or audio engineer required.
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MONETIZATION: The Real Value of Podcasting — The brilliant Charlotte Lewis-West joins Smarter Podcasting, to dig into the real value of podcasting — and why making money through ads and sponsorships isn’t the only (or smartest) goal.
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July 04, 2025A new improv kids comedy adventure
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Tales from the Cloud Sea might be the first 100% improvised comedy adventure podcast for kids and families. Every episode's adventure is created by kids who call in to tell the characters where The Skytanic goes next. We’re told early feedback has been positive.
The NYC Web Fest is now accepting podcasts as an official category in its twelfth annual celebration of indie storytelling. The festival has also announced its jury members. The festival is Oct 3-5.
Gretchen Rubin, who signed with Lemonada Media last year for her podcast, has signed with Backyard Ventures - for her newsletters. (Opinion: interesting how podcast companies haven’t also looked at newsletters, given their popularity.)
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A Community of True Crime Pods Growing Together — Your podcast deserves more than five listeners and your mom. Criminals.fm gets you in front of millions of true crime junkies for just $35/month.
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July 03, 2025Fewer podcast episodes published in June
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The total number of new podcast episodes published in June was 4.7% fewer than in May on a normalised basis, says Livewire. Spotify for Creators saw a small decrease, but still retained its leading market share of 26.6% of new episodes. Spreaker (at 15%) and Buzzsprout (at 8.7%) saw increases in share, as did Podbean and Libsyn. Amazon Cloudfront still serves the majority of podcast episodes (now 60.79% of them).
Buzzsprout’s monthly stats report for June suggests a small narrowing of Apple Podcasts’s lead in terms of total downloads. The podcast host saw a -4.5% drop in total downloads (June has -3.3% fewer days than May).
Transistor showed Apple Podcasts retake its lead, however.
The Podcast Standards Project has added Anytime Player as a certified app, and podcast hosting providers Iono, Podhome, Podtoo and Alitu as certified hosting providers. The full list and certification criteria is on Github, and on the project website; the group aims to advocate for new features that improve the open podcasting ecosystem for both listeners and creators.
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How To Get 50 MILLION Downloads with Gary Arndt — How do you grow your podcast to massive numbers? I invited Gary onto the Smarter Podcasting to find out. He is the host of Everything Everywhere Daily, and recently hit 50 million downloads! How?!
20th Annual Podcast Awards - Register Now! — The People's Choice Podcast Awards nominations are open You must register to participate. 20th year honoring podcasters globally in 30 categories. Register Now!
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July 02, 2025Comedy podcast festival expands to the US
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A comedy podcast festival is to expand into the US - and to return to London and Melbourne. Cheerful Earful plans 15 days of live podcast shows across the globe, including a new event in New York City. Presented in partnership with headline sponsor Adelicious, the festival continues its mission to be “global but grassroots,” with comedy at the heart. Tickets are now on sale.
New York Public Radio, the owners of WNYC, released its financial returns for FY23/24. The company brought in $73.9mn (including a government grant of just $347,000), but had expenses of $83.1mn. During the year the company eliminated leadership bonuses, cut its workforce by 40 people, and cancelled Death, Sex & Money, with production ceasing in January 2024. It’s now with Slate.
LaFontaine Oliver, the CEO of the company, was paid $612,000. We also learn the packages paid to Brooke Gladstone (who hosts On The Media), and Anna Sale (who hosted Death, Sex & Money for six months of this return period): both were paid around $341,000.
Podcast advertising via AdsWizz earned WNYC $426,000 during the year.
Parla has launched its deep research assistant. The research tool is trained on “every active podcast in the world”. We asked it “should a podcast be in video, or just in audio”, and it gave us this.
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A Community of True Crime Pods Growing Together — Your podcast deserves more than five listeners and your mom. Criminals.fm gets you in front of millions of true crime junkies for just $35/month.
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July 01, 2025Advertisers love podcast ads more than ever
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Advertisers say they’ve never been more interested in podcast advertising - and never used it more. That’s the results of the eleventh year of the Advertiser Perceptions study by Westwood One and Cumulus Media. However, the study suggests, brands are just “sticking their toe in the water” in terms of budgets; and suggests that it’s time that brands invested 5% of their overall spend in podcasting.
Could open video podcasting be a little closer? Podpage now supports HLS podcasts, and explains its benefits. Here’s the example show’s website on Podpage.
PodWoman, a podcasting event dedicated to women in podcasting, is back for a third year in Madrid, Spain - this time, its first in-person edition. The Spanish-language event will feature talks, activities, and a networking area designed to connect professionals and creators in the podcasting world. It’s on Oct 18.
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How To Get 50 MILLION Downloads with Gary Arndt — How do you grow your podcast to massive numbers? I invited Gary onto the Smarter Podcasting to find out. He is the host of Everything Everywhere Daily, and recently hit 50 million downloads! How?!
20th Annual Podcast Awards - Register Now! — The People's Choice Podcast Awards nominations are open You must register to participate. 20th year honoring podcasters globally in 30 categories. Register Now!
Attention Podcast Hosts! — PodSnacks offers a tool that helps engage your audience. Utilizing AI it summarizes your episodes, links to Spotify and Apple, & alerts your subscribers via emails.
Join the Empowered Podcasting Conference, Sept 26 — Connect with industry leaders, learn actionable strategies, and elevate your podcasting journey. Tickets are limited. Reserve your spot today!
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June 30, 2025French podcasters join demand for podcast recognition
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France’s podcast industry has called for official government recognition for podcasting. “If we want podcasting to remain a diverse, creator-driven medium, it must be recognized as a cultural industry in its own right”, the organisation said, in a statement following its AGM. This follows AudioUK asking for the same in the UK; and podcasters asking for similar recognition in Canada.
Mission Media AI has been launched - a new content, distribution and media sales company founded by David Krulewich. Steve Smith, formerly of SiriusXM, will work on publisher relationships; George Mani will be Head of Business Development.
CoHost has added new features to its tracking links tool, making it faster to deploy tracking links for new shows promoted on multiple platforms.
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June 27, 2025Audacy to close Pineapple Street
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Audacy is to shut down Pineapple Street Studios. Nearly thirty employees are to be laid off. Pineapple Street had been bought by Audacy in 2019 for $18mn. Audacy will continue making some shows. Audacy itself emerged from bankruptcy in January; it was reportedly looking for a buyer for the company in March.
Audacy shut Cadence13 (a $50mn purchase) in Mar 2024, and rebranded Podcorn ($22.5mn) as Audacy Creator Lab in April this year. Meanwhile, Audacy’s purchase of Moonbeam, a podcast discovery app in Jul 2022, also appears to have come to nothing: the website is now owned by a company in Ukraine. An Audacy spokesperson didn’t return our request for more detail about Moonbeam.
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of podcasts being available in iTunes, Apple Podcasts released a list of “20 Years, 20 Podcasts We Love”, and posted a thank you to creators. “Podcasting has become a global force thanks to the creativity and commitment of creators, and the deep connections they have with their audiences. The twenty podcasts that we selected for the 20 Years, 20 Podcasts We Love list are a representation of this same creativity and connection found across the millions of podcasts on Apple Podcasts. We look forward to continuing to help creators grow their audiences, and listeners find and enjoy the podcasts they love,” Ben Cave, global head of podcasts at Apple, told Podnews.
Apple says these shows “have made a lasting impact on listeners and the podcast industry”; separately, the Essential Listening Poll is compiling a list from audio creators, writers and scholars, which will be unveiled in August at Podcast Movement.
Steve Jobs demoed podcasting at the D3 conference in 2005, by playing the latest episode of Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code. It didn’t, quite, go to plan.
Podnews restored the co-inventor of podcasting Dave Winer’s Morning Coffee Notes, which he credits for democratising the podcast medium (fearing that other early shows sounded too polished). The first episode in our restored feed is from March 2005.
As an aside: Apple’s list is hosted on the learn.applepodcasts.apple domain. That’s the first time we’ve seen them use this domain; there’s no homepage there yet.
PodcastOne has launched a crypto podcast network. The press release talks about blockchain, Web3 audio and video content, and AI-hosted content.
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Join the Empowered Podcasting Conference, Sept 26 — Connect with industry leaders, learn actionable strategies, and elevate your podcasting journey. Tickets are limited. Reserve your spot today!
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June 26, 2025Spotify’s free ad money for video creators
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Spotify is wooing some potential video creators with promises of free ad money. Natalie Jarvey of The Ankler published a leaked Spotify deck; and one slide shows an incentive of $5,000 of free ad credits within Spotify Ads Manager to help eligible new video creators to promote their shows. Spotify often highlights that many creators see a growth in consumption after adding video: but it hasn’t mentioned that it gives $5,000 of free ads to drive that consumption increase.
Today, June 26, marks the thirteenth anniversary of the launch of the Apple Podcasts iOS app in 2012. The app featured a faux reel-to-reel tape deck, apparently a nod to the Braun TG 60 tape recorder by Dieter Rams. In the Apple Podcasts app, speed controls were marked with a tortoise and a hare; and promotion for This American Life on the editorially-curated “featured” section. The app also featured a “Top Stations” discovery feature. Here’s a video from CTTechJunkie showing how the app worked; a positive review from Revision3; and this demo from GetConnected Media which shows how the “Top Stations” feature worked: with an audio/video switch right at the top. Hey, there’s an idea...
It’s the twentieth anniversary of podcasts going into iTunes on Saturday.
86% of Gen Z listen to music or consume podcasts to help boost their mood, according to a new study. The Gen Z Report, from Edison Research and SiriusXM Media, says that 13-24 year-olds are most concerned with the economy, social injustice and political division. 8% of their audio time is spent with podcasts; they discover podcasts most-often by “searching on YouTube”.
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Shouldn't Your Show Be Bigger? — Why isn't your show growing? This podcast audit shows you what you're doing right and what needs work. We look at your website as well. Includes a month at the School of Podcasting.
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June 25, 2025Podcasting bigger than radio; women listen more than men
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In Germany, for the first time, podcasting is now bigger than radio for 18-29 year-olds. And, once the preserve of men, it’s women who now listen more often to podcasts: with monthly listening more than tripling since 2019. The findings are in the Podcast 2025 Report, produced by Seven.One Audio. Podnews readers can download the full report in English.
Podcast criticism is important - and it’s needed. So says Imran Ahmed from Great Pods, writing for Podnews - sharing why podcast critique is helpful and useful; and, giving tips on how to do it.
Two of podcasting’s fastest-growing audiences are Health & Fitness and Self-Improvement. Tomorrow, there’s a free webinar about “the power of purpose-driven podcasting” - which will share more about those audiences, and why they’re perfect for advertisers. It’s from SiriusXM Media and Sounds Profitable.
Meanwhile, SiriusXM Media and Edison Research present the Gen Z Audio Report in a free webinar today at 2pm EDT. Here’s where to register for that.
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June 24, 2025Apple Podcasts adds new artwork requirements
Sponsored by Podscribe. Newly Launched: June 2025 Industry Rankings
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Explore the full rankings to spot the leaders and biggest movers.
Wanting to get promoted by Apple Podcasts? Apple is now requiring specific artwork for shows it promotes in its app: its feature request form says that “submissions without Showcase Hero art will not be considered for Showcase featuring in the US”. They mean Show Hero art, as documented here. The form is also specifically asking about trailers, so we can guess what’s next there, too. Not looking for Apple Podcasts promotion? Don’t worry; nothing else changes. (h/t John McDermott)
If you’ve a trailer, you can also use our own New Podcasts website to promote your show there (and here).
(Update: Apple updated its Show Hero page to rename it as Showcase Hero within 24 hours of us publishing this).
The Podcast Marketing Academy released its 2025 Podcast Marketing Trends Report. The survey contains a lot of quality data around what works - and doesn’t - in terms of podcasting:
55% of shows saw a smaller listenership this year than last year, the study says; though 18% of shows doubled their listenership. It also shows that business shows, and shows with an interview format, grew the most. The length of a podcast grew slightly, with the median episode 5% longer than last year at 36 minutes 42 seconds.
The APAs from AudioUK are open for entry, as the audio production awards return for the fifteenth year. The awards celebrate audio from podcasts to radio, audiobooks to sound design, production to presenting. Audible returns as sponsor; you’ve until mid September to enter.
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