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Podnews is a media partner and I'm on the advisory board. Reflecting that this was a tough year in media, former Cumulus podcast network SVP, John Wardock, is offering an hour of free consulting to those who've lost their jobs this year. We'll link to more information. UK production company Listen has been nominated for a UK television award. The broadcast awards are held in early February. The company made The Traitors Uncloaked, a visualized podcast broadcast on BBC television.
And that, by the way, is coming back in early January. Magellan AI has confirmed that it's earned IAB Tech Lab certification for podcast measurement. It looks like Spotify's recent big launches have had an effect. The number of new episodes hosted on Spotify for Creators increased last month to 23.7%. It was on 30% this time last year, though. 4.6% of all podcast episodes in November still used Chartable as a prefix.
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The Podcasting 2.0 podcast this week goes into more detail about what they call the walletpocalypse, changes needed to future-proof streaming payments in podcast apps. Oscar Merry from Fountain explains some of the reasons for the changes and shares some demo code. The demo code is on a website called podpay.org. There's a live demo, some examples, and some library code.
Interestingly, the changes also open up the opportunity of cross-app comments, which have long been a desired feature of new podcast apps. Meanwhile, if you have one, old Alby wallets will disappear by January the 4th. You can transfer your sats to services like Strike or others. And more podcasts are powered by Amazon CloudFront than ever before. 57.3% of all November's episodes used the content delivery network, says Livewire, including this one.
And in podcast news from Magnificent Noise, have you ever wondered what should I do with my life? Enter Becoming You, hosted by Susie Welch, a business journalist turned professor at the helm of NYU's wildly popular self-discovery course. And we thank Magnificent Noise for their support this month. Tiny Matters has joined Multitude, the show that's into genes, microbes, and other tiny things that have a big impact on our world.
Join scientists Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti as they take apart complex and contentious subjects in science and rebuild your understanding. The Spanish language podcast newsletter has launched a companion podcast, Puerto Rico's Tropical Podcasting, has launched Que Esta Pasando en el Podcasting, which will cover the latest news, tips, and strategies in the podcasting industry.
And would you go on a reality show if you didn't know what it was about, even if they promised you the adventure of a lifetime. In 2005, 12 people did just that. They answered an ad that read Thrill Seekers Wanted and began auditioning for a show unlike any other in British television history. From CBC Split Screen, Thrill Seekers exposes how a TV show left contestants struggling to trust what's actually real.
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A TV crew offers 12 ordinary people the chance to take part in the adventure of a lifetime. But there's a catch. We're asking, so what is the thrill? Can you give us more detail? And they said, no, that's it. So if you want to be on the show, stop asking that question and get on with the auditions. The audience knows everything, but the contestants are kept completely in the dark. They showed me a picture of nothing. I think it was paint or like a messy paint picture.
Now, what do you see? I think they were trying to work out, okay, is the person that's taking this test likely to make things up in order to fit in? Yeah, I still didn't know what we were doing. Might be, I don't know, selling you my kidney. I don't know what it is. No questions allowed. They just have to do as they're told. It's probably two o'clock in the morning, two or three o'clock in the morning. They had soldiers in the background running around singing and rushing.
And it was just frantic and people shouting at you. I mean, I don't like getting told off, so I'm doing as I'm told. But as the show goes on, things start to spiral. That distinction between what's real, what's not, who's telling you what's real, who's telling you what's not. I wouldn't say I had total control of my mind at that point. Your grip on reality? Yeah, my grip on reality was pretty all over the shop.
And eventually, even the production team starts second guessing what they're doing. As we got on later into the show, I started feeling really guilty. Everybody had a day where they felt guilty and thought, should we be doing this? Is this too cruel? Well, I mean, the word deceiving is, it's a very loaded word, isn't it? These people were genuinely up for an adventure, wanted to take part in a TV show that was gonna be a bit of a rollercoaster. And they certainly got that.
Until finally, the truth is revealed. That's when I felt angry. That's when I realised how stupid I was gonna look. I'm getting upset. Split Screen Thrill Seekers is a new six-part series where reality meets reality TV. Listen now. This is a CBC podcast. For more CBC podcasts, go to cbc.ca/podcasts.