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James Cridland: Parcast founder Max Cutler has announced the launch of a new media company called PAVE
Studios.
Positioned across video, audio books, and entertainment, the release appears careful
not to use the word podcast, although the video does.
Spotify bought Parcast in 2019 for more than $100 million.
Cutler left Spotify in February 2023.
The Parcast brand was combined into Spotify Studios later last year.
UK media regulator Ofcom has released data on audio listening in the UK.
The raw data is also available in full.
Adam Bowie has looked more closely into it.
He discovers that podcast listening is not growing overall in the country, but there has
been a marked growth in younger listeners.
Spotify, BBC Sounds, and YouTube appear high in the list for podcast apps.
In the US, the IAB has released the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue report.
Total internet ad revenue grew 7.3% in 2023.
Internet audio, including podcasts, grew 18.9% to $7.2 billion.
We'll learn the podcast revenue numbers on May 9.
The New York Festivals Radio Awards announced the winners for 2024.
We've linked to the podcast winners today from our show notes in our newsletter at podnews.net.
There are 23 gold winners.
Bloodlines from CBC and BBC won a grand award.
The BBC was awarded Broadcaster of the Year.
The Australian podcast ranker for March was released.
Hamish and Andy returned to No. 1 for monthly listeners.
The show's first weekly episode this year was posted on February 28.
Notably, that show has moved away from titles like "Hamish and Andy 2023, episode 240", and
instead is using more attention-grabbing titles like "2024, episode 247, The Amazing
Hat Prank".
The ABC's Conversations is No. 1 by total downloads.
One of two big Australian commercial podcast publishers, ARN, is bidding to buy the other
its competitor, SCA.
If the proposal goes ahead, we expect, says an analyst from Morgan Stanley, that ARN
will close its iHeart app and shift to listener as a single audio streaming platform.
Audio books are a hit for Spotify.
25% of Spotify premium users have engaged with audio books, the company tells us.
In the US, new audio book listeners are spending two and a half hours longer in the app in
the 14 days since starting a book, and cross-promoting a RuPaul book from an appearance by RuPaul on
Call Her Daddy led to a 34% increase in consumption.
The company also points out it's resulted in more revenue for publishers, saying slightly
complicatedly that without Spotify, royalties for independent authors would have increased
to 23%, but with Spotify's addition of audio books in premium, independent authors have
seen a 95% jump in their royalties.
And people in Quebec call podcasts "balados", according to the latest edition of Pod the
North.
In France, however, they're all about "le podcast".
Dave Winer: This is Dave Winer, it's, I forgot to say, it's April 28th, 2005, and this is Morning
Coffee Notes.
Coming to you from the beach today, I'm actually literally lying on the beach right now.
I've been sitting out here for about 45 minutes.
I was lying on my back for the first 45 minutes with lots of suntan oil and I went swimming.
James Cridland: Podnews has restored one of the original podcasts, Morning Coffee Notes from Dave Winer,
and now you can listen on your modern podcast app.
The show is a snapshot of tech history.
He talked to Robert Scoble after Macworld 2008, interviews Chris Brogan about posting
100 tweets, records the first podcast to be broadcast on KYOU, tries the Motorola droid
out for the first time, and sings.
You'll find Morning Coffee Notes wherever you find your podcasts.
Status Untraced is new from Tenderfoot TV today, investigating the mysterious disappearance
of an adventurer and tech entrepreneur, Justin Alexander Shatler.
Is he still alive?
Was he murdered or was there an accident?
And what could go right returns for a new season today.
Produced by the Progress Network, the show dissects the central issues of our era, ranging
from climate change to political divisiveness, and offers a weekly dose of optimistic ideas
from smart people.
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