From our daily newsletter, the latest from podnews.net with Podcast Movement. The True Crime Awards took place last night, including nine podcast awards. The winner of Podcast of the Year went to Kill List from Wondery and Novel. We've a list of all the podcast winners linked from our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. PodTrack published its top podcasts, publishers and networks for May. All of the top global networks saw lower consumption month on month.
A new AI audio briefing app called Hux is brand new today. It'll connect to your email, your calendar and other personal feeds to give you an audio update. Business Insider reports that it's from some of the original Google Notebook LM team. There have been layoffs in the industry this week. Spotify's podcast division has made 15 layoffs, including staff at The Ringer. The cuts are apparently the result of a focus away from audio and towards video. Spotify declined to comment.
American public media APM also made 15 layoffs. It plans to sell its collection of kids podcasts, the Brains On Universe. An interesting development is that APM offered the production teams for the shows and a support person the option to stay on for two weeks to thoughtfully inform the audience of the change. And Boston-based public broadcaster GBH has made 45 layoffs across multiple departments. The BBC has quietly closed the Today podcast.
The weekly podcast was from the biggest radio news program in the UK, with 5.7 million listeners on BBC Radio 4. But in spite of heavy promotion, the podcast has never broken through. It's to be replaced with a new show from co-presenter Amal Rajan called Radical.
US Airline United has announced a collaboration with Spotify to offer a collection of Spotify's video and audio podcasts, audio books and specially curated versions of Spotify's most popular playlists on the in-flight entertainment screens. It's the first time that Spotify's video podcasts have made it to an in-flight entertainment system. The audio category on United's planes will be replaced with the Spotify category.
Meanwhile at Spotify, Chief Public Affairs Officer Dusty Jenkins has sold a total of $5.1 million of Spotify shares in the last three months. And Spotify Board Director Mona Sutphen has also sold $3.3 million. The Spotify Podcast Awards to place in Mexico, the top of the top podcast, was Evuk's hosted comedy podcast, La Cotoriza. Working with BBC Studios, OSHA says it helped optimise the podcast search optimisation strategy for the infinite monkey cage.
The company has published a case study. Jar Audio has revealed the finalists for its 2025 Emerging Women in Podcasting pilot competition, spotlighting bold new voices in audio. The winner will be announced next week. Descript released a new set of features, including improved filler word removal. The company also notes that it's moving away from using version numbers in its software. Joe Rogan's ATM pin code starts with a 1. We'll link to more details on that today.
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So, John McDermott from Calaroga Shark Media is our guest host. We talk about AI voices. And hear from Zach Justice of The Dropouts about how his show uses Patreon. And Camp Shame is new from Acast's Wonder Media Network and iHeart this week. It's an 8-episode audio series that delves into the story of a notorious fat camp. One family's greed and the heavy price of shame. And this podcast is sponsored by Podcast Movement. The 12th annual Podcast Movement is coming to Dallas, Texas.
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