From our daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with CoHost's advanced audience demographics. The 2024 Australian Podcast Awards took place last night in Sydney in New South Wales. We've a full list of the winners. You'll find it linked from our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. Podcast of the year went to 'Ladies, we need to talk'.
I'm Yumi Stynes. Ladies, we need to talk about the big business of fertility.
And the listeners' choice went to Toni and Ryan.
Welcome to the Tony and Ryan podcast. My name is Ryan. This is doctor and author Tony Lodge.
Hello.
We are calling Emily, who's in Milbong, Queensland.
A number of podcasts also made the winners list at the Anthem Awards, including the Free Associations Podcast, Culture Kids, Unseen and Unheard Season 2, Public Health on Call Podcast, Wrongful Conviction on New South, and Going Wild with Dr. Ray Wynn-Grant. Spotify has released a round-up of its new audiobook features in the app, sleep timers, author pages, video clips, (but of course!), countdown pages prior to release, follow-along visuals and audiobook playlists.
In Sounds Profitable this week, Bryan Barletta has written about the finer details of the Spotify for creators push to video, calling it a 'wake-up call' for podcasting and highlighting the monetisation options you may lose by uploading video. OnAir Fest will feature more than six locations in Brooklyn this time around in February, and a welcome return for Ashley Carman, who will host the invite-only Podcast Business Summit on February 19th.
Speaking of which, Ashley Carman's Soundbite newsletter covers the interview podcast backlash, reporting on Tim Ferriss' views on interview-style shows like his. Triton Digital released podcast rankers for Canada and the United States. Lemonada Media is newly listed in both. Adam Bowie looks at the Podtrack Ranker for the UK and Apple Podcast's top UK shows of 2024.
For personal users, Hindenburg is offering an upgrade to Hindenburg Pro 2 at up to 75% off in what it calls a 'Phoenix Fire Sale'. You have until December 8th to take advantage of that offer. According to its changelog, Descript has made changes too. Overdub becomes part of 'Regenerate', its AI speech generation tool. You can now pay with Apple Pay and Google Pay. The text-to-speech tool now works snappier and better, and you can now replace media on the fly.
All of the details linked from our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.
the court action between the National Association of the Deaf and Sirius XM for a lack of podcast transcripts, continues. The latest is a request to push the case out to October 2025. The legal action started in December 2021. And here's a fun and entirely unrelated fact. Average law firm billing rates were $749 per hour in 2022. And Kast Media's bankruptcy case continues; as part of its public filings, we get to see the company's monthly accounts.
The company earned $5,700 from Apple Podcasts in October, we presume from paid subscriptions, and $6,100 from advertising. In people news, Geoffrey Fossier has joined French digital audio company Audion as its global CMO. And in podcast news, the Podnews Weekly Review this week contains interviews with Neil Mody from Headliner.
Joe Rogan, even when he was exclusive on Spotify, had more subscribers on YouTube than followers on Spotify. So you have an exclusive show on Spotify that actually has more subscribers, followers, whatever you want to call them, on a different platform that doesn't even have the show anymore.
And we hear from Alberto Bettella from RSS.com. And I talk about podcasting's seeming open-armed welcome to YouTube and Spotify with Sam Sethi. Of all the podcasts that we mention, this one's obviously the best. A week before the election in Ireland, new podcast "From Bomb to Ballot - The History of Sinn Féin" tells political party Sinn Féin's journey from the political wing of the Provisional IRA to the brink of power.
John Lee traces Sinn Féin's evolution from 1969 to the present day. Season 2 of Business Dad, hosted by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, launches with a premiere featuring award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns. And other cultures have some great words that English doesn't. "Nixen" is the Dutch word for doing nothing without feeling guilty about it. "Kaputreparium" is German for breaking something while you try to fix it. And "Otsukaresama" is Japanese for a good rest after working hard.
50 Words for Snow searches out words from other cultures that will make our lives better in some way, and launched earlier this year. Maybe it's time to play it to your machatunim? This podcast is sponsored by CoHost. Get in-depth insights into who your podcast audience is, including income family members, social media habits, age and more. With CoHost's advanced audience demographics, you can book a demo today. You'll find the link in our show notes.
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