🎙️ Apple Announces Most-Listened Podcasts of 2023 in Global Charts

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📢 Apple released 2023's most popular podcasts and year-end charts for nearly 100 countries and regions today. From January to December 2023, the Browse tab lists the top podcasts, new shows, most followed shows, most shared shows and episodes, and top free and subscriber channels. Shows We Love, a curated collection of popular narrative and episodic series, is available in over 15 markets. Apple Podcasts will announce the Show of the Year on Tuesday, December 5.

📢 Paradigm Shift for Podcast Lovers: Auddia Launches Commercial-Free Feature. Auddia, a developer of a proprietary AI platform for audio identification and classification and related technologies that is reinventing how consumers interact with audio, announced today that it will launch its new commercial-free podcasting technology in the faidr mobile app on January 15, 2024

📢 LiveOne subsidiary PodcastOne announced the integration of SourceAudio's PodcastMusic.com music licencing service today. The company will provide podcasters with customised and efficient tools to find and choose sound designs that fit their shows.

📢 Podcast digital audio advertising spend rose 19.2% in the September quarter compared to last year, according to PwC's September IAB Australia Online Advertising Expenditure Report (OAER).

• Realm, the scripted podcast company behind Harley Quinn & The Joker: Sound Mind and The Flash: Escape The Midnight Circus, has a broad deal with IGN to develop and distribute audio series.

• Early Access, Ad-free Listening Now Available Globally through BBC Podcasts Premium. BBC Studios' commercial arm, BBC Podcasts Premium, offers "the very best of our audio journalism and storytelling," exclusively on Apple Podcasts.

• Revolutionising Podcast Advertising: Deeper Listener Profiles Now Available through Podcast Metrics Demos+ . Publishers in the Australian Podcast Ranker now have access to updated demographic information and audience profiles, providing them with knowledge about their audiences' interests, media consumption patterns, age and gender, purchase history and intent, and number of listeners and downloads.

•  Private Media Announces Redundancies Amid Tough Economic Conditions. Crikey publisher Private Media laid off workers due to ‘a tough economic climate and falling revenue,’ according to reports. 

•  Showcase Your Podcasting Expertise at The Podcast Show 2024: Apply Now!. The Podcast Show 2024, held 22–23 May at the Business Design Centre in Islington, is now accepting speaker and session applications.

•  AdNews Confirms: Spotify in Search of New Global Media Agency for 2023. Spotify is looking for a global media agency, AdNews reports.

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•  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.

• The Acast Australia group business director resigns to join SCA's LiSTNR team. Following his February departure, Acast Victoria group business director Bryce Crosswell will join Southern Cross Austereo's LiSTNR as head of digital sales in Melbourne.

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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. 

• Nova Entertainment is hiring a Audio Engineer. NOVA Entertainment is Australia’s fastest-growing audio entertainment business

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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.

• New Class: Managing Productions to Managing People: A Guide for Producers and Editors. The most experienced producers and editors are expected to manage people and productions without training.

• Online Advertising Rises 7.8% to $3.732 Billion Amid Ongoing Economic Struggles. The PwC-prepared IAB Australia Online Advertising Expenditure Report (OAER) shows search and directories spent $1.630 billion, general display $1.451 billion, and classifieds $649.2 million in the September 2023 quarter.

• Q is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot that Amazon launched with the goal of assisting businesses in streamlining daily operations for their employees.

• The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority provisionally found Adobe's ADBE 0.65% increase; green up pointing triangle planned $20 billion acquisition of collaboration-software company Figma would likely harm innovation for software used by most U.K. digital designers.

• Pika Labs, a San Francisco-based generative AI platform that turns text into videos, raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $55 million in six months.

• ElevenLabs, an AI startup that converts text into audio speech, launched a grants programme with 4,000 grants for innovators and creators.

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