From our daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net, with CoHost's B2B Analytics. Edison Research published the top 25 UK podcasts for Quarter 3/24. Goalhanger celebrates improvements in placing for all of its four top 25 shows, including The Rest Is Politics, which makes it to number two in the country behind the US-made Joe Rogan Experience. There are only two shows from the US in the chart. Acast hosts nine shows, Megaphone hosts seven, and the BBC hosts five.
John Lee Dumas and Kate Erickson Dumas from Entrepreneurs on Fire have been announced as keynotes at Podfest Expo in Orlando this January. Spotify launched Spotify for Authors for audiobook authors and publishers. RSS.com has automatically removed Chartable prefixes from podcasts hosted on the service, according to the company's latest release notes. Chartable prefixes stop working on December 12th and will render your entire podcast unplayable if you don't remove them.
In further reading, Bryan Barletta writes about the implications of Spotify for creators. Neil Veglio writes "the hidden risks of YouTube and Spotify that the suck-up podcast bros on LinkedIn won't admit". There's the title!
And James Cridland - wait that's me - writes "BBC Sounds, is it going away internationally?" I'm blogging personally but I wonder whether the obvious contradictions in the BBC's podcast strategy means that the corporation's BBC Sounds is going away for non-UK listeners. And our events section is currently closed for new entries while we sharpen our anti-spammer axe.
It'll return shortly. In People News, our favourite Acast PR person beginning with the letter M, Molly DeMellier, has been promoted to Director of Marketing and Public Relations. And in podcast news, Blue Sky isn't a podcast about a social media network but it is one about optimism.
The special Thanksgiving episode features insights from Bill Burke and past guests like Burt Jacobs, David Gardner and neuroscientist Dr Richie Davidson, exploring how thankfulness can foster optimism and resilience. And Russell Howard's Five Brilliant Things is the new name for Russell Howard's Wonderbox and relaunches today in partnership with Adelicious and Patreon.
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