From our daily newsletter the latest from podnews.net with Split Screen from CBC. Podcast company Acast has purchased New York-based creative podcast studio Wonder Media Network for a total value of $7.8m. The six-year-old Wonder Media Network makes its own original podcasts and branded podcasts and digital content for a number of large companies. WMN's team will combine with Acast's existing creatives to form a new division called Acast Creative Studios.
Podtrac published its US Rankers for November 2024. All of the top global networks were down on global downloads, streams and views in November over October, they say. Potentially connected to the presidential election results, the only changes in the top 21 publishers are The Daily Wire, up from number 10 to number 9 and the Fox Audio Network, up from number 13 to number 12. Also the Tucker Carlson Show is a new entry in the most popular podcasts at number six.
Those rankers measure participating publishers only. The New Zealand Podcast Awards released their winners last week. Our page links to the gold winners so you can listen for yourself. Wondery released its 2024 Wondery podcast playback in the Wondery app and Headliner has also posted their wrapped 2024. In this case it's a blog post highlighting the year in podcasting. We've updated our alternatives to Chartable guide. Rephonic no longer requires sign up
to OP3 to claim your podcast. Podgagement has launched a historical charts service and we've also added details of services from CoHost. And we've added many more country podcast top 10s from Spotify 2024 wrapped, including Sweden, Italy where one podcaster has two shows in the top 10, Germany where the number one podcast is hosted on Soundcloud, Spain, New Zealand and
Mexico. More later, we think. And thank you to the team at Sounds Profitable who join us as our latest gold supporter and the team have also each joined as personal supporters too. They write Sounds Profitable wouldn't exist without the support of and free access of industry journalism provided by platforms like Podnews. We encourage you to subscribe and consider supporting Podnews
as we all have. In addition to Sounds Profitable sponsoring Podnews as a company, we as individuals have also pledged to the Podnews Patreon to support the continued publication of podcast industry coverage. We couldn't have put that better ourselves. Podnews.net/patreon if you want to cover their fine example. And in people news, Rockie Thomas has been appointed Chief Strategy Officer at SoundStack. She
was previously the company's chief revenue officer. "I'm thrilled to expand my experience into product and strategy lanes," she said. And Adam Shepherd, formerly editor of PodPod and the British Podcast Awards, is leaving to be editor of Conference and Incentive Travel, a thrilling publication aimed at the corporate events planning sector. "I'll miss the vibrant enthusiasm and passion of the podcast
community," he says. It leaves one less place to read news and information about podcasting, which sounds good for us but is increasingly not good for the industry.
And in podcast news, Podcast Perspectives this week covers all things podcast attribution including how the technology actually works, why a brand would want to utilise it, which tools podcasters can and should use in the wake of chartables sunsetting and some real-world examples of how these types of tools changed the entire podcast ecosystem. The new Goalhanger podcast "The Rest is Classified" has achieved 200,000 downloads
in its first week, the company says. It topped the charts in the UK and Australia while also breaking into the top five in New Zealand and Ireland. The show offers unparalleled insights into the world of intelligence and security. Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce released its first episode. It includes an interview with actor Kaitlin Olson and we hear how she's dealing with being pregnant. It's also on YouTube in video, not in video on Spotify, and we are required to tell you that it's
a Wave Sports + Entertainment original. So we have. And Intoxicating History is new this week, hosted by author Henry Jeffries and Tom Parker-Bowles who's described in the press release as critic, writer and son of the queen. Oooh, get you. The show explores the sometimes amusing, often dramatic but always intoxicating stories behind the drinks that we know and love. Today the first episode is all about port. It's from TWS Creative.
And this podcast is sponsored by CBC. From CBC the Split Screen podcast features character-driven narrative series taking listeners inside the unsettling and captivating world of entertainment and pop culture. CBC is now accepting pitches. Have you got a decent podcast in you? Can you help produce CBC's next one? You'll find a link in the show notes. And that's the latest from our newsletter. To read all the stories and subscribe we're at podnews.net