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• The nominees have been announced for the iHeart Podcast Awards 2024. The awards, presented by The Hartford, will be announced on March 11 at SXSW (as well as being broadcast on the radio and streamed live on YouTube).
  • You (you!) can vote for the podcast of the year on the website.
• AI-powered podcast search tool Dexa has raised $6mn in seed funding, and announced a partnership with Huberman Lab. You can give it a go here.
• CoHost has added episode consumption data to the company’s podcast analytics and audience insights platform. The tool aggregates data from both Spotify and Apple, to offer users deeper insights.

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• First look: Paramount Audio, the audio and podcasting arm of Paramount Global, has announced a partnership with brand partnerships and integration company Backyard Ventures, who will be tasked with growing key titles such as The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert, On Fire: The Official Survivor Podcast, Avatar: Braving the Elements, and The Official Yellowstone Podcast. Matt Cisneros, founder of Backyard Ventures, told Podnews: “The Paramount Audio team is a dream to work with and we see a huge opportunity to work in tandem with them to grow their already successful podcast business.”
• The Actively Established Podcast Report has been published for February by PodMatch and Rephonic. It shows a general slowdown in the number of active podcasts, but with a continued rise in general podcast listenership, it suggests that now is a good time to start.
• Harry Duran’s Vertical Farming Podcast has merged with IGROW NEWS to form a new company, the AgTech Media Group.
• Paula Szuchman, Director of Audio at The New York Times, has been confirmed as a speaker at Radiodays Europe this year. “Speaking about the content and usability of the New York Times audio app, Szuchman will be revealing their successes and failures as well as the strategy behind their hugely impressive podcast slate including Serial and The Daily.“ The conference is in Munich, Germany, on Mar 17-19; our Editor is also speaking at the Podcast Summit and highlighting new AI tools.

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• What are people doing when they aren’t listening to your podcast? Steve Goldstein takes a look at the many other ways they could be spending their time - and how podcasting fits in.
• Want to see how your podcast cover art looks in a number of apps? The Podcast Cover Art Size Preview tool from Onlypod can help, showing you what it looks like in all the big apps.

• A successful bi-weekly segment on the CyberWire Daily podcast, Threat Vector by Unit 42 is now its own podcast on the N2K media network. The show unravels the complex and constantly evolving cyberthreat landscape through discussions, expert interviews, and insightful analysis.
• A popular Australian financial podcast has rebranded - this is money reflects the growing demand for inclusive finance, property and career advice for people of all ages and stages of life. It was previously called My Millennial Money.
• Lowlines is a new, independent, podcast launching today. After food entrepreneur Petra Barran left the grind of the business hustle, she bought a sound recorder and set off without an itinerary to record a podcast with no script, no studio and no production team. The resulting bank of tape was raw, real and revealing about what it means to connect to the ground beneath our feet.
• New today from PRX and The Jewish Telegraphic Agency comes a show about a famous Jewish teen singer from Iran in the 1950s - and the secret reason why he, and his family, suddenly left Iran and abandoned their identity. The Nightingale of Iran contains a treasure trove of archival sound, music, interviews, and narration, and is a true story of identity, belonging and music.
• Colloquiapedia is a new show that explains a popular word or phrase from the contemporary zeitgeist, and makes it comprehendible. inPress founder and podcast host, Jamie Gavin is joined this week by Assistant Managing Editor at Forbes, Ali Jackson-Jolley, who has a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion for the organisation - and will explain all things DEI.

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