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📢 After reaching a significant restructuring agreement with its debtholders, Audacy has, as anticipated, filed for bankruptcy..

📢 YouTube is honoring its pledge to enable RSS feeds. Today, a blog post and video were released by

📢 With the launch of the first comprehensive industry careers website, a new platform aims to become the preferred choice for jobs in the media, advertising, and creative sectors.

📢   As a part of the SXSW Festival, the 2024 iHeartPodcast Awards will be presented on a larger platform.

• Americans Spend Over Four Hours Daily with Audio based on the recent Edison Research. At Share of Ear's 2014 launch, Americans 13+ spent 4:17 a day listening to all audio sources.

• Liberated Syndication Inc. (“Libsyn”), the leading podcasting platform for creators and advertisers, announced its December 2023 Podcast Advertising Rates, including the highest and most accessible CPM categories, today.

• Livewire reports 1.7mn new podcast episodes in December, down 11.1% from November. Spotify for Podcasters hosted a record 30.4%.

• At least 3,258,920 podcasts and 185,150,467 episodes exist, according to Listen Notes. Compared to IMDB's 8.3 million titles, Spotify's 70 million tracks, and Audible's 470,000 audiobooks.

• Edison Research's latest findings show binge-listening as a digital audio trend. As of Q3 2023, 77% of U.S. weekly podcast listeners aged 13 and older have listened to multiple episodes in one sitting.

• Podtrac released the December 2023 rankings. Total Global Downloads for the Top 20 publishers were down 19% month-over-month and down 24% year-over-year, due largely to modified download behavior by iOS 17 as it continues to be adopted by podcast listeners

• With iOS Changes Reducing Overall Podcast Numbers, iHeart Continues to Be the Top Publisher.

• Three Items from Signal Hill Insights' 2023 Audio Research That Could Change the Game. Video podcasts are an additional option for podcast listeners, not a replacement for audio podcasts.

• The popular true crime podcast Mums and Mysteries and Libsyn's AdvertiseCast have re-established their exclusive advertising partnership.

• Sounder Analysis: Compared to the general news podcasting population, NPR's news podcasts are significantly safer for brands.

• AdLarge announced today their partnership with Fable & Folly Podcast Network for exclusive ad sales.

• Triton Digital announces an interactive audio ads integration with Amazon Publisher Services.

• The Radio Academy have today announced that entry nominations for The ARIAS 2024 will open from Thursday 4th January via the website HERE.

• Sky News reports that Raine Group and Temasek Holdings-backed SoundCloud will be sold later this year for a large profit.

• Magnite Creates iHeart Digital and Broadcast Audio Ad Marketplace.

• An expected court ruling will allow Cadence13, Pineapple Street, and 2400 Sports podcast studio employees to be paid and receive benefits during parent company Audacy's chapter 11 proceeding, reports from PodcastNewsdaily

• Max Cutler, the founder of Parcast Studios and former Head of Talk Creator Content and Partnerships at Spotify, believes last year's downsizing by several podcast studios could lead to some content regeneration in the new year because the disruptions created new podcast opportunities.

• Managing Director for Spotify Nordics, Jenny Hermanson, has departed from the company. She said “It has been an extraordinary privilege to lead and contribute to the growth of Spotify in one of its key markets. Being part of a start-up journey to where we are today has been nothing short of an adventure.”

• Westwood One will be led by Cumulus Media EVP of Corporate Strategy & Development Collin Jones starting January 1, 2024. He succeeds Suzanne Grimes, who left after eight years.

• AdLarge announced today Tom Brady has joined the company’s sales force. In this new role, Brady will work directly with EVP of Audio Sales, Robin Sloan.

• Rachel Williamson was elevated by Audacy to the position of President of Local Sales Strategy and Innovation, from Regional President. Williamson will answer to Chief Revenue Officer Brian Benedik in the newly created role.

• At the end of March, Spotify's chief revenue officer, Paul Vogel, will be leaving the company. Following a third round of layoffs that affected Spotify earlier this week, the announcement was made.

• After five years, Denise Viltola, who oversaw social media, PR, and influencer marketing at Bayer, announced her departure. She is still deciding what to do next.

• Jeff Howard will succeed James Warburton as Seven West Media's managing director and CEO, according to Seven West Media Chairman Kerry Stokes AC.

• Rachel Fountain has been appointed as Content Director, Audio (News, Sport, and Lifestyle) for NewsCast, News Corp Australia's on-demand audio division.

• Warner Bros Discovery's Millennial and Gen Z-targeted content company Rooster Teeth's podcast network, The Roost, will have new leadership in the new year. From now on, Roost Podcast Network VP AJ Feliciano will manage all podcast sales and partnerships.

• Vinyl Group, listed on ASX, will fully acquire Australian youth publisher The Brag Media, including its premium mastheads and events.

Launching on Monday 15th January, Ghost in the Machine is a new investigative podcast hosted by sports journalist Chris Marshall-Bell. This is a Stak production, the team behind Football Ramble, P1 with Matt and Tommy and Upfront.

Listeners can expect a mix of humourous and gravely serious stories from whacky cheating attempts to reputations ruined and a sport grappling with an existential threat. Ghost in the Machine tells a story that transcends cycling, but also raises questions about human nature, technology, fair play and the ethics of sport. 

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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, 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. During its initial launch, 13 million people used ChatGPT every day. 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.

• Walnut Media USA needs a driven and experienced Performance Podcast manager to join our dynamic team.

• Allio is seeking a Podcast Co-Host to be a third voice on new series launching in Q1 2024 alongside Allio’s CEO and Chief Investment Officer (CIO).

• Acast's Los Angeles Sales & Brand Partnerships team is seeking a driven, energetic, and passionate Account Coordinator to join the podcast industry's rapid growth.

• An experienced Podcast Sound Engineer (Multimedia Production Coordinator) is needed at Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Centre.

• Good Karma Brands (GKB) and GKB Brandworks are looking for a Digital Content Creator to join our team.

• RedCircle is all about the creator, and as a partnerships manager focusing on podcasters, you’ll be working with creators full time.

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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 

• Design a Great Podcast with Strategy In Mind. This class will take you through a design process that blends vision, planning, and strategy.

• The Hot Pod Summit is returning to Brooklyn on February 28th, 2024, as part of On Air Fest for a day of in-depth talks, intimate conversations, and industry networking.

• The Institute for Independent Journalists 2024 Freelance Journalism Conference on February 29 and March 1, 2024

• Podcast Academy: What is “growth” for my podcast? Setting realistic goals with Arielle Nissenblatt. (Register Here)

• Rand Fishkin Joins Us at the Brand Podcast Virtual Summit in January 2024!

• The Podcast Advertising Summit promotes podcasting as a media and advertising channel and highlights its great work. In London on January 25, this is your chance to unlock podcasts' marketing and advertising potential.

• After two rounds of layoffs last year, Amazon-owned live streaming company Twitch plans to cut 35% of its staff or 500 people, Bloomberg reported.

• X, formerly Twitter, announced a partnership with former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who will host The Don Lemon Show three times a week on the platform.

• The New York Times reported that TikTok disabled one of its trend-measuring tools after researchers and lawmakers used it to analyse political and Israel-Hamas war content.

• After being fined $1 million by Italy's antitrust authority last month, fashion influencer Chiara Ferragni is being investigated in Milan for aggravated fraud. The Guardian reported that the agency claimed consumers were misled into thinking they were donating to a hospital by buying a cake she promoted.

• After serving a 10-year sentence for the second-degree murder of her abusive mother, Gipsy Rose Blanchard was released from prison last month and quickly gained 9 million TikTok followers. The New York Post reported that industry experts estimate she could make “millions” from brand sponsorships and speaking fees.

Welcome to the Podcaster Toolbox, a crowd-sourced resource for independent, DIY, and/or beginning home-based podcasters.

The Kangaroofern Media Lab team will review the resources submitted here and add them as soon as possible to the Podcaster Toolbox.

• 🏜️ Transistor.fm - is a powerful and simple podcasting platform. The ability to host multiple podcasts on one account makes it ideal for podcasters with multiple shows.

• 🎙️ Acast - is a podcast hosting service that enables you to publish, share, and earn money from your podcasts.

• 🎧 Epidemic Sound - is a company that provides content producers with access to a sizable library of royalty-free music.

• 🚗 Niceboard - modern job board software, helps communities and organisations create and manage job boards.

• 📼 Tubebuddy - is a complete tool for YouTube channel management and growth.

• 📹 VidIQ - is a website for learning that focuses on offering video tutorials and analytics to aid users in expanding their YouTube channels.

The complete Toolbox can be seen at https://www.podworks.io/p/toolbox

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