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From our daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with Podscribe. The Digital News Report 2025 from the Reuters Institute is being
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launched as we send today's update. One part of the data focuses on the changing landscape for news podcasts across countries, looking specifically at the US, UK and Norway to add further context. The data suggests that YouTube is the main access point for news podcasts in the US. In the country, 15% access a news podcast weekly. One-fifth of their US sample, one-fifth, say they saw news or commentary from Joe Rogan in the week after the inauguration, and 14% from Tucker Carlson.
The percentage of weekly news podcast listeners in the UK is half that of the US, and interestingly in the UK, Goalhanger's The Rest Is Politics is quoted as the number one news podcast, with Global's The News Agents at number two and Politics Joe at number three. The BBC only appears at number four and five, with AmeriCast beating Newscast. The winners of the Publisher Podcast Awards 2025 were announced.
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The podcast of the year went to Political Fix from the Financial Times. We've a full list of the winners in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. The fiction podcast app Apollo shuts down last month. It's emerged. We've poured our hearts into building a space for fiction podcast lovers, said the founders in an email. And while we're incredibly proud of what we created, we haven't been able to grow the listener base enough to sustain the service long term.
Audio remains the primary mode of podcast consumption despite growing video options, says a new study from Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights. Eva Longoria's Hyphenate Media Group has taken an equity stake in the My Cultura podcast network, Hyphenate Media's podcast network dedicated to elevating Latino voices and stories. A new podcast project management tool, Northflow, has officially launched.
The product is built specifically for podcast agencies and teams managing multiple shows, promising to make podcast production easier for the people who do it every day. The Associated Press has signed with Soundstack for the company's suite of tools for audio streaming and content repurposing.
Sirius XM Media has announced a partnership with Innovid to bring better data around digital audio performance to media mix models, offering measurement solutions and clear evidence of ROI for brands The power of open standards for creators and independent businesses are highlighted by Justin Jackson, the co-founder of Transistor, in a part of a video we link to today from the Nathan Barry Show, which was released over the weekend.
And as Pocket Casts moves to support PodRoll, creator-led podcast recommendations, joining podcast hosting companies like Buzzsprout, Blueberry, Transistor and RSS.com, We thought we'd take a look at who, so far, are the most recommended podcasts by creators. You'll never believe the number one. You'll find it linked from our newsletter today. In People News, Kamal Ahmed has announced that he's left the Daily Telegraph's podcast, The Daily Tea, a year after its launch.
He was also the newspaper's director of audio. The Telegraph has asked me to continue with my column and landing big interviews. Other exciting projects are taking shape, he says. And a few weeks ago, Michael DeLoyer stepped aside as CEO of Evergreen Podcasts. He's started a new position as Venture Fellow at Pegasus Angel Accelerator. And in podcast news, in 2012, a woman was found with her hands bound in the Mojave Desert, but it wasn't the only crime that had taken place there.
Devil in the Desert unravels the tangled life of Hussain Nayyiri, the mastermind behind one of the most brutal crimes in California history. It's new today from ABC Audio in 2020, and it's hosted by ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Guttman. And IRL, online life is real life, returns for a new season today, produced by PRX. This season, there are fears about AI taking our jobs or becoming too intelligent in the future.
But what about the AI that's already here, just beneath the surface of our daily lives? Bridget Todd goes deep into the ways AI has infiltrated our social relationships and human rituals, from finding love to being our neighbour. And this podcast is sponsored by Podscribe. They've just launched the Quarter 2 2025 Podscribe Performance Benchmarks Report. And for the first time ever, you can see international benchmarks in there and the top performing audience segments.
You can download that report now to learn how to maximise your campaign performance. There's a link in the show notes. And that's the latest from our newsletter. To read all the stories and subscribe for free, we're at podnews.net.