The latest from our daily newsletter at podnews.net with Riverside. Since it launched, Acast has paid more than $44.9 million to creators in Australia and New Zealand, the company has revealed. That's $28.6 million US dollars. It recently signed big hitters Casefile True Crime and Toni and Ryan. Podscribe will reveal the Quarter 4 2024 performance benchmark reports in a webinar tomorrow. Podscribe attendees will get the new data from Podscribe a week early before everybody else.
It's free to sign up at Podscribe's website. Yes, this time yesterday we covered the story but got the name of the company wrong. Not for the first time. I'm an idiot. Magellan AI will also run a webinar on Thursday with details from that company's benchmark reports. Links to both in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. The BBC is to close BBC Sounds, its music, radio and podcasts app for international users.
BBC Podcasts, along with two radio stations, BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4, are now available on the BBC.com international website. And the BBC's app, access to the BBC's other domestic radio stations will no longer be possible outside the UK. Two defamation lawsuits have been served after a podcast appearance by the Mayor of London. Not that London though. London and Kentucky. iHeart is to launch a regional podcasting hub in Qatar. It made the announcement at Web Summit Qatar.
Or is it Qatar? I never know. Goalhanger has launched a new live event. It's first without a podcast. The rest is assassinations. We'll feature Dominic Sandbrook and Anthony Scaramucci at the end of March in London's Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Tickets are available now. Transistor has posted a list of 23 podcast apps that have closed. Don't launch a social podcast player is one thing we can learn from that.
Ziff Davis' IGN Entertainment has launched Geek Media, a new podcast network. It'll be represented by Realm. And the Mercury Podcast Network is partnering with programmatic audio tool Soundcast. And in podcast news today, Connected is a weekly panel discussion on Apple and the impact of technology in our lives. With each co-host having a unique background and accent, Connected provides a perspective that no other show can.
They use Memberful and we're grateful for their support this month. The Podnews Weekly Review is named as one of Hindenburg founder Nick Dunkerley's top 10 shows this week. In his Desert Island shows, we're alongside Radiolab and S-Town. And David Tennant does a podcast with returns for a new star-studded season today. Guests will include Jameela Jameel, Russell T. Davis and Ben Schwartz. We're told to expect honest chats, surprising revelations and Tennant's silky Scottish tones.
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