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📢  Podtrac release the top 25 New Podcast of 2023. The 2023 list is headed up by Scamanda from Lionsgate Sound, followed by The Retrievals (Serial Productions), The Coldest Case in Laramie (Serial Productions), The Girl in the Blue Mustang (NBC News) and Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Lemonada Media).

📢 2023 New Zealand Podcast Awards: Celebrating Aural Excellence and Creativity The 2023 New Zealand Podcast Awards, hosted by Duncan Garner, showcased the country's diverse podcasting scene.

📢 October Sees Rising Podcast Ad Spend by Top Brands: Magellan AI Report. Magellan AI found that podcasting's top 15 advertisers spent more in October than September.

📢 IHeartMedia Scores Big with $100 Million in Proceeds from BMI Sale. The investment community welcomed Monday morning's news that iHeartMedia would receive $100 million from the sale of BMI to a shareholder group led by New Mountain Capital.

📢 As part of its digital transformation, BBC News will invest in podcasts. The news division will reduce broadcast content while increasing digital output.

📢 Video on Substack get a major upgrade. Now you can upload videos directly to your Substack and opt to automatically publish the audio as a podcast episode

• AI is used by Descript's new tool to identify podcast moments that can be shared. Let Descript’s AI tools save you time on the dirty work—and save your creative energy for the hard work of creating something great.

• Podimo Takes Lead in Audio Subscription Services with New AI Chatbot. Podimo, Europe's fastest-growing podcast and audiobook subscription service, is testing "Conversational Search" in Denmark and Germany through the end of the year.

• Uber Seals Game-Changing Sponsorship Deal with Popular UK Podcast.Uber and Steven Bartlett's The Diary of a CEO podcast have signed a six-month sponsorship agreement as part of Uber's calculated strategy to broaden the brand's appeal.

• 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).

•  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.

•  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.

• Blubrry introduction of premium podcasting allows podcasters to create their own premium, bonus, and ad-free content for their most dedicated fans and listeners.

Presenting New Voices AMPLIFIY! For independent creators who already have a podcast and are looking to expand their audience, there is an 8-week marketing accelerator available.

Selected participants will receive accelerated learning, mentorship from top industry professionals, and a $1,000 stipend. Participants will be a part of a cohort of independent podcasters with the chance to create long-lasting relationships, in addition to workshops and exercises on monetization, audience engagement, and promotional campaigns. You will have a tonne of knowledge and techniques at the end of the programme that you can use right away with your podcast!

The application period is now open!

•  Erica Farber, the CEO of Radio Advertising Bureau for a period of twelve years, has declared her intention to leave the company. With effect from April 1, 2024, Farber will be succeeded as President and Chief Executive Officer by Mike Hulvey, CEO of Neuhoff Media.

• Former Audible and Gimlet executive joins NPR as head of podcast strategy. Colin Campbell will start new role this December

Small Doses with Amanda Seales
Side Effects of Parking Lot Pimpin (with Lynae Vanee)

Fay has been a fan of Amanda Seales since she was doing her spoken word poetry on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Amanda's curation of guests and her comedic discussions of hard topics — like the socio-political climate of today — is genius. She truly embraces the honorary “5th Element of Hip-Hop” (which is knowledge, depending on who you ask). 

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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

Please mention Podworks.io or Podwires in your application.

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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.

• TPA Presents: The Art & Science of Immersive Sound Design. Join a 60-minute webinar featuring James Walker (Velocity Studios) and leading audio professionals Cheryl Ottenritter (Ott House Audio), Steve Lack (Steve Lack Audio) and Charlie Hewitt (Mirror Studios/IAX Audio).

• 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.

• Google will pay local publishers $100 million for news snippets shared on its local platform in Canada. Bill C-18, the Online News Act, requires U.S. digital giants to negotiate commercial licencing deals with Canadian publishers for their local platforms. Google will pay $100 million annually.

• Mailchimp announced it is closing TinyLetter. Products will be discontinued on Feb. 29, 2024.

• Forbes announced its social media 30 Under 30. Creator economy startup founders topped the list.The $250 billion creator economy is expected to double in five years. Breakthrough creators are emerging.

• The nearly 1.6 million-subscriber YouTuber Ashley Alexander announced her matcha business in a video tour of the farm and factory in Shizuoka, Japan.

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