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📢 Laura Byrne & Brittany Hockley Crowned Podcast Champions at the Australian Podcast Awards 2023. The Australian Podcast Awards (APAs) powered by iHeart, has announced its winners for 2023 across 30 categories.

📢 0% Commission from Google? Spotify's Unconventional Deal Steals the Spotlight. Online music streaming New Epic v. Google trial testimony suggests Spotify made a generous Android-based payment deal with Google.

📢 Newcomers and Consistent Leaders: Triton’s Canada Podcast Ranker for October 2023. Top 3 Canada originated French-language podcasts were Le Radiojournal, Les chronique de Pierre-Yves McSween, and Richard Martineau

📢 Top Advertisers in Podcasting Drop a Staggering $68 Million in October. MediaRadar data released by Veritonic in a report on year-end audio business insights found that the top 15 podcast advertisers spent $68 million in October.

📢 Smart Speakers Bringing a Revolution to Audio Entertainment - Latest Research Reveals. Smart speaker ownership has grown over 400% in six years, from a niche smart-home product to a mainstream household item in many American households.

• Study Shows Power of Talent Podcast & Radio Reads on Brand Growth.It is widely believed that podcast hosts and AM/FM radio personalities' talent reads boost brand awareness and sales. System1, the creative effectiveness measurement leader, found that talent reads affect market share and short-term sales.

• Revolutionizing Podcast Production: Listen Launches Strategy Division, Listen Labs. A new strategy division at podcast production company Listen will offer consulting services to broadcasters, brands, agencies, and creators, including exclusive podcast growth and amplification tips.

• Five countries get access to Spotify's podcast ad marketplace. Spotify (SPOT.N), a music streaming company, announced on Thursday that it will open up its podcast advertising marketplace to five new markets, including Sweden and India.

•  Descript Unveils Revolutionary AI-Powered Scripting Tools for Creators. Descript, a podcast and video editing platform, launched several new AI-powered scripting tools for creators as part of a series of new AI-powered features it plans to integrate by the end of the year.

• Advertising Game Changer: Podchaser's Performance+ Shakes Up the Industry. The podcast industry's intelligence engine, Podchaser, has launched Performance+, an update to its Collections+ feature. Performance+ is an industry-first tool that helps advertisers find the best podcasts for performance and direct response campaigns.

• 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.

• Optimize Your Video Content: Veritonic Introduces Cutting-Edge Analytics for Publishers. The industry's most complete platform for audio analytics and research, Veritonic, today revealed the expansion of its ground-breaking Long-Form Content Analysis solution to include video

•  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.

• Sam Keogh has been named head of agency sales - Sydney by SCA chief commercial officer Seb Rennie. Keogh joins SCA with over 11 years of experience in media sales and management, having previously served as group business director at JCDecaux.

• The health and wellness social shopping app Spree named Phil Ranta its new CEO. Ranta was COO of digital management agency We Are Verified.

Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV
The Social Experiment: Big Brother is Watching You

EarBuds curator Marcus admits that for a long time, he turned his nose up at reality TV, but this podcast helped him challenge his narrow-minded preconceptions. Marcus really likes how the hosts go deep into the ethical questions raised by the format whilst respecting the subjects that they are studying. There is no talking down to the genre, but they don’t hold back on their criticism either.

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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.

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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.

• Vice Media is looking for a Freelance Podcast Producer Series. As a producer you will be responsible for owning all aspects of pre-production, production and post-production of narrative audio documentary.

• Sinclair, Inc. is looking for an Associate Producer, Podcasts to assist in developing and producing a slate of audio series. 

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• Magellan AI Market update: September podcast advertising spend. Join us for the monthly briefing where we look back at the month's trends in spend and creative

• 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 

• Maker Mingle: Editing Your Podcast with Descript. Attend the PRX Podcast Garage at KQED workshop on editing podcasts with Descript, an AI-powered audio and video software for audio word processing, transcription, and podcast and video editing.

• Music Crash Course: A how-to for all things musical in a podcast.Get ready for a mind-blowing crash course in all things music, where you'll learn about cues, tags, stingers, and how to use them.

• Cumulus Media & Signal Hill Insights' Podcast Download – Fall 2023 Report. A exclusive podcast webinar where they share everything brands and agencies need to know about how Youtube fits into content consumption.

• X Backtracks from MRC Brand Safety Credentials Audit: A Setback for Advertisers. Marketers must blindly trust X, formerly Twitter, when it says advertising is safe. Unfortunately, they cannot independently verify those claims.

• New Mountain Capital's Billion-Dollar Acquisition of BMI Confirmed. BMI has confirmed its acquisition by New Mountain Capital, LLC after months of rumours. Mike O'Neill will remain BMI's President & CEO after the sale.

• The Australian youth movement PROJECT ROCKIT and Meta are launching a campaign about online intimacy, respect, and consent for teens.

• Spotify Takes Steps to Increase Revenue for Artists Relying on Streaming. Spotify is launching new guidelines to provide greater assistance to individuals whose primary source of income is streaming revenue.

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