Podcast downloads are up, the latest from PodNews.net with Magellan AI now analyzing Spanish
podcasts.
Podcast downloads increased by 20% last year, says Triton Digital, in the company's first
U.S. year-end podcast report.
listeners downloaded 5.6 episodes a week on average, representing 3.8 hours of content.
Podcasts are doing just fine, says Acast's PodChaser, while the biggest players in the podcast
industry have expanded and contracted wildly over the past few years.
It says, the podcasting middle class has quietly and consistently grown.
Yesterday we highlighted that the 80% drop in new podcast headlines were wide of the
mark.
The fast growing everything everywhere daily podcast hosted by Gary Ant has been acquired
by Glassbox Media, that brings Glassbox's listenership to over 10 million downloads a month.
City University of London has announced the UK's first dedicated MA in podcasting and
a centre of podcasting excellence.
Students will be taught by podcast professionals who've worked at the Guardian, the BBC,
Bower Media, the New York Times, and 6 foot 6 productions.
The full schedule for podcast movement evolutions is now live, the event is in Las Vegas
in early March, meanwhile the podcast show 2023 in London is selling passes at an early
bird price, saving 35% for May's event.
Podcast hosting company Blueberry has released support for value for value, a way to accept
online payments from podcast listeners in apps like Fountain, Castomatic, and Podverse.
The company has partnered with Aldi with more than 100,000 shows using Blueberry, this
is the biggest podcast hosts so far to natively support value for value, the company will
release further support for the new podcast name space next week.
Behind the paywall, the information posts an article about Patreon used by many podcasters,
including us, for support, all is not well the article suggests bits of it are readable
via the author's Twitter.
The podcast founder Matt Baster writes a piece accusing Apple Podcasts of trapping creators,
based on one podcaster who apparently used Apple Podcasts as a hosting platform.
Edison Research has highlighted the most efficient podcasts in different regions of the
US, a thinking of tweeting and affiliate link or some kind of paid partnership, an email
tells us now that Twitter's updated rules require you to add a hashtag.
When people use Mike Jo Kim is no longer working in senior sales and supporting Castanies
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And in podcast news, Latina Tilotina is celebrating reaching 2 million downloads, only
2% of general contractors in the construction business aren't women.
Gold Flip is a new podcast launching today with entrepreneur Erika Annenberg, which highlights
the stories of influential women in traditional male roles.
What happens when the watchdog tasked with overseeing the most powerful law enforcement
agency in the US doesn't do its job.
Bad watchdog is new today from the project on government oversight.
Almost everyone who's taken a vacation or trip knows that things don't always go exactly
as planned.
In Welcome to Paradise, it sucks.
Andrew Tate interviews real people about their harrowing vacation stories.
It's new today.
We'll send you today the war on drugs launched by lava for good podcasts.
The podcast examines the true cost of five decades and the failed US war on drugs.
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Magellan AI has added support for analyzing Spanish language podcasts in the US and Mexico.
The product is already monitoring more than 2,000 advertisers.
You can get a demo at Magellan.ai slash Spanish.
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