The latest from our daily newsletter at podnews.net with Magellan AI. Audion has launched Sense, an AI-powered tool designed to give pre-campaign analysis of ad creative, helping advertisers achieve more effective digital audio advertising spots before they run. It's been trained with more than 3,000 audio campaigns. Audioboom published its quarter one, 25 financial results. EBITDA profit is up 10 times year on year.
The company says it's on pace to deliver record revenue of $80 million this year. Stephen Goldstein published his write-up of his view from the top panel at Evolutions in Chicago. Podcasting isn't breaking, he says. It's bending. The word video is mentioned 17 times. It's easier to sell advertising if you've done your homework first, and Magellan AI has published a case study of how Gamut Podcast Network turned market intelligence into a growth engine with
Magellan AI's tools. We'll link to that today from our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. Podscribe has launched new features featuring verified household-level data from TransUnion. Podcasters can now see details of their audience across more than 560 segments, including occupation and parental status. And reverse-searching podcasts by verified audience traits so you can find the podcasts most listened to by people with pets, for example.
Where do you find new talent for podcasting? For the award-winning production company Whistledown, it was just sitting on the northern line of London Underground, listening to three people having a chat. The result? The Power Sisters podcast with seven episodes so far. Episode zero tells how they met. Nominations for the 2025 Quill Podcast Awards are now open. The awards have been running since 2021, celebrating the achievements of podcasters
and podcast companies. The podcast show London has just added the first 150 names to its speaker lineup. I'm also speaking. If you use the code podnews10, you'll save money on selected passes. In the UK, the nominees of the Arias were announced. The Audio and Radio Industry Awards will take place on May the 14th. And websites for podcasts. W4P has been
launched by Canadian company Podcast Branding. The service provides podcasters with professionally designed WordPress websites that they own rather than pay a perpetual subscription model for. Self-ownership is important, but those websites based on a template cost more than $3,400 in the first year, and they don't include ongoing hosting. And thank you to the Gamut Podcast Network for becoming our latest silver
supporter. It's people like Gamut, which launched at the end of last month, that keep pod news free and available for everyone. You can join Gamut and become a pod news supporter if you get value from what we do. In people news, Carrie Brody has been hired as VP of podcast development at Higher Ground, the company founded by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. She was at Pushkin Industries.
Carrie, obviously, not Michelle. And in podcast news, the new podcast from Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has launched Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan. It's a Lemonada production. And in the first episode, Meghan speaks with her close friend, Whitney Wolf Hurd, best known for creating the dating app Bumble. The two discuss the pressures of launching a business and what it's like doing it in the public eye.
Also, Climbing the Walls is a new limited series investigative podcast exploring why women weren't diagnosed with ADHD for so long. Gig Gap, the working musicians podcast this week, features Dave Hamilton sitting down with Joe Travers, who's drummer for Duran Duran and Guardian of Frank Zappa's treasure trove. And Building Better CMOs is a podcast about what marketing leaders get wrong and how they can get
smarter and stronger. Past guests have included A-list CMOs from companies like Uber, Coca-Cola, AT&T, GE, and Adobe. And this year, full video interviews are also available on YouTube. And this podcast is sponsored by Magellan AI. Host-read, Programmatic, or Run of Network. See how top advertisers allocate their podcast budgets with Magellan AI's spend analysis. Track competitive spend now with Magellan AI. There's a link in the show notes.
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