Women in Podcasting - the winners, from a busy coffee shop in Stockholm in Sweden the latest from podnews.net with SoundStack, earning more programmatic revenue. The winners of the Women in Podcasting Awards were announced: over 15,000 listeners participated in the voting process, and there were almost 400 nominees. Our analysis shows that Buzzsprout has the most amount of winning entries. Google's NotebookLM has added a way to customize the tool's "deep-dives".
Podcast app Metacast is dropping its price for premium down from $4.99 a month to $1.99 a month: the premium service offers transcript search playlists and bookmarks. One of the first podcasters Matthew Wayne Selznick has written reflections after 20 years of being a podcaster. His current podcast is Sonitotum. "I had the best experience at Spotify": that's Alex Cooper talking to
the Hollywood Reporter; and is 2024 the podcast election? The Week asks that question and we link to that today from our show notes, and our newsletter at podnews.net. It's a Monday so time for some tech stuff: a musician is earning revenue and notoriety after calling some of his tracks after smart speaker phrases. His most popular tracks are: "my liked songs", "Beatles greatest hits" and
"true crime podcast". We used Wondercraft AI to translate a recent Podnews Daily podcast into Swedish because that's where we are today; we link to that in Podnews.net and you'll find that in the pod news extra feed perhaps because it contains an English pre-roll, perhaps because the RSS says it's in English, or perhaps because our devices are in English - but either way the automatically generated Apple podcasts transcript is also in English.
It's translated the whole thing: have we stumbled on a new feature from Apple podcasts? And Podnews keeps an eye on shows moving from one podcast host to another and it's worth a peek every so often. Spotify for Podcasters gains a lot of shows but has a high churn rate losing about half the number of the shows it gains in the last 30 days; Simplecast, Captivate and Acast are the other winners; SoundCloud Omny Studio, Libsyn and Buzzsprout are the losers. And
Australia's number one daily news podcast for kids squiz kids is marking media literacy week with the launch of a new and improved version of soundhounds, its free classroom resource for primary school kids which teaches them to spot misinformation when they come across it online. In Stories and Sounds recently, a troubling story for content creators everywhere Jonas Litton was blacklisted and banned by Facebook along with a number of his client
accounts for seemingly confusing an AI algorithm. Thrown off the platform in mid-september it took two weeks and 14 attempts to reinstate his accounts, and as he says a paid account is useless for support if your account is automatically suspended. It's worth a listen and to lessen your reliance on social media. And the Opportunist returns for a new season today, looking at Tim Ballard's the show explores his rise as a celebrated anti-trafficking figure and the
troubling accusation of sexual assault that have since emerged. It's produced for PodcastOne by KastMedia. This podcast is sponsored by SoundStack: if you've got a portfolio of podcasts and you're looking for more opportunities for them in 2025, well, good news helping them earn more programmatic revenue is simple with Sound Stack. Every podcast and streaming audio business deserves a chance to grow you can find out more about sound stack in the link in our
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