🎙️ After 2.8 billion download, Triton Marks the Release of the 50th Australian Podcast Ranker for October 2023

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📢 Unleashing the Power of Podcasts: Spotlight on Spotify's Role in Cultural Conversations. Podcasts drive social and cultural conversations. They extend cultural discussions, start new ones, and connect people who want an alternative to headline-skimming and surface-level social media posting.

📢 Acast's Global Partnership with Proximic Promises Innovative Solutions for Podcast Advertising. Acast advertisers can use Proximic by Comscore's Predictive Audiences to reach podcast listeners using privacy-friendly contextual signals.

 📢Celebrating the Giants of the Podcast Scene: Triton's October 2023 Australian Podcast Ranker. Triton Digital®, the global leader in digital audio, podcast, and broadcast radio technology and services, released the October 2023 Australian Podcast Ranker today. October saw 86.2M downloads.

📢 Australian Podcast Ranker: Blake's new podcast debut with Hamish and Andy at number one. Southern Cross Austero podcast platform LiSTNR confirmed today that the duo placed first across the country, including in comedy, for October, breaking the record 22 times. Triton Digital reportedly never achieved this since releasing monthly results three years ago.

• Surging Audience Numbers for Top Podcast Publishers Revealed in New October 2023 Rankings!. US UMA increased or was flat for all but one of the Top 20 publishers in October 2023 over September 2023.

•  Podcast Marketing Academy Unveils Comprehensive Report On Global Marketing Trends. This report includes data from shows from six continents, multiple languages, and all major formats and genres.

• Spoken Word Audio Continues Record-Breaking Growth Streak! This may sound repetitive, but spoken word audio keeps breaking the record. Daily, 135 million people listen to spoken-word audio. This is 30 million more people than nine years ago and almost half the 13+ U.S. population. The share of spoken word in audio listening has grown 55% in 9 years. Growth is the headline, regardless.

• Boost Your Podcast Growth: Guesting on Other Podcasts the Second-Best Marketing Strategy.Based on a Q1 2023 survey of 521 podcasters and industry professionals, the Podcast Movement, Transistor, and Alitu report examines podcast growth after launch.

• 🚨 Peter Manten, the regional head of sales for Spotify in Australia and New Zealand, has been named by Vudoo, the company that specialises in content commerce and in-stream checkout, as its new MD for the Asia Pacific area.

Born Fabulous
Micah Fialka-Feldman & Tori Cedar, "The Same Door, IQ Scores, Civil Rights, and More.."

In this episode of Born Fabulous, Micah Fialka-Feldman and his best friend, Tori Cedar, discuss Micah's early recognition of his civil rights, touching on IQ scores and civil rights for people with disabilities.

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• Breaking Down What Makes a Podcast Successful. Buzzsprout Conversations is a new-ish podcast where we dive into the real-life stories of podcasters and what makes them successful!

• New AI Tool Creates Podcast Launch Kits in Minutes. Showplanner AI-generates a free podcast launch kit to help independent podcasters launch a new idea in minutes.

• 5 new tools to automate podcast production, powered by AI. For the last 3 months Resound, the AI podcast editor, has been quietly building and iterating and announcing a BIG step forward to achieving our mission of automating audio production.

• How to Make Your Podcast Recommended by ChatGPT. ChatGPT became the fastest-growing app ever with 100 million active users in two months. ChatGPT was used daily by 13 million people during its launch. That number may be much higher today.

Here are our current featured roles. Check the job board for more jobs and some freelance gigs.

• PMX is looking for The Head of OOH & Audio will be responsible for the development and management of Publicis Groupe’s converged OOH & Audio products.

• Bloomberg is looking for a Full-time and contractor Podcast Producer. Bloomberg is expanding its audio offerings and seeking an experienced podcast producer for a daily economy, world, and enterprise business news podcast.

• Tiktok is hiring a revenue strategy and operations manager. Livestream Team is committed to creating real-time interactive scenes. As a new form of content, livestream creates value for all parties in the ecosystem.

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• Our first events for 2024 are now also open for registration with the year kicking off with our Sydney Audio Summit and Melbourne Audio Summit 

• How to Keep AI in Check for the Creator Economy. To make their jobs easier, creators are starting to use tools that use artificial intelligence.

• Freelance Nuts & Bolts Webinar. Get ready to start right away with this crash course from the founder of the Institute for Independent Journalists! You'll learn how to set an hourly rate, how to organise your freelance portfolio using the 3 P's model, how to keep track of projects and invoices to get paid, how to get great jobs, and more.

• Maker Mingle: Making a daily news podcast with the Fifth and Mission team. Come to the PRX Podcast Garage at KQED for our workshop and mixer for creative people who make sound. At the start of this session, the people who make the Fifth and Mission podcast from the San Francisco Chronicle will talk.

• Integration Powerhouse: Podbean and Descript Simplify Podcast Publishing. Podbean, the popular podcast hosting and monetization platform, and Descript, the groundbreaking audio and video editing platform, will showcase their publishing integration at an exciting event.

• Although the value of Australia's gaming market has increased to $4.21 billion from $2.67 billion in 2021, industry experts maintain that it is still a niche market for advertisers and is vastly misunderstood.

• Unite Local 11, the major hospitality union in a labour dispute with dozens of Los Angeles hotels, plans to picket major entertainment awards shows at these venues if their settings don't change.

• Reach Gamers Efficiently with Livewire’s New Adtech Platform, Gameview!. Gameview, an adtech platform from Livewire, gives marketers a single point of contact with gamers.

• YouTube creators must disclose realistic “altered or synthetic content” they create. YouTube said AI-generated videos that realistically depict an event that never happened are especially important for sensitive topics like elections or geopolitical conflicts. Creators received a similar disclosure from TikTok this year.

• Now, all it takes is a single tap to effortlessly save songs from TikTok to Spotify. Starting today, Spotify Free and Premium users in the U.S. and U.K. can save TikTok songs to their Liked Songs playlist in Spotify without switching apps.

• Filmmakers Rebel Against IDFA in Reaction to Controversial War Statements. A number of directors have pulled their films from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in protest of its statements on the Israeli-Hamas war.

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