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The 2024 Australian Podcast Awards passed off final evening in Sydney NSW. We have a full list of the winners: Podcast of the Yr went to Ladies, We Need to Talk (above), whereas the listeners’ selection went to Toni & Ryan.
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A variety of podcasts additionally made the winners list at The Anthem Awards, together with the Free Associations Podcast, Culture Kids, Unseen & Unheard Season 2, Public Health On Call Podcast, Wrongful Conviction, Our New South, and Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant.
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Spotify has released a roundup of its new audiobook features in the app – sleep timers, writer pages, video clips (however after all!), countdown pages previous to launch, “follow-along” visuals, and audiobook playlists.
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In Sounds Worthwhile this week, Bryan Barletta has written about the finer details of the Spotify for Creators push-to-video, calling it a “a wake-up name for podcasting”, and highlighting the monetisation choices it’s possible you’ll lose by importing video.
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On Air Fest (Feb 19-21) will feature more than six locations in Brooklyn this time around: and a welcome return for Ashley Carman, who will host the invite-only Podcast Enterprise Summit on Feb 19.
- Talking of which, Ashley Carman’s Soundbite publication covers the interview podcast backlash, reporting on Tim Ferriss’s views on interview-style exhibits like his.
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Triton Digital launched podcast rankers for Canada and the United States. Lemonada Media is newly listed in each.
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Adam Bowie looks at the Podtrac ranker for the UK and Apple Podcast’s Top UK Shows of 2024..
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For private customers, Hindenburg is offering an upgrade to Hindenburg Pro 2 at as much as 75% off, in what it calls a “Phoenix Firesale”. You’ve till Dec 8 to reap the benefits of this provide.
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According to its changelog, Descript has made “overdub” change into a part of “regenerate”, its AI speech era device. Now you can pay with Apple Pay and Google Pay. The text-to-speech device now works snappier and higher. Now you can substitute media on the fly.
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The court docket motion between the Nationwide Affiliation of the Deaf and SiriusXM for a scarcity of podcast transcripts continues. The newest is a request to push the case out to October 2025. The authorized motion began in Dec 2021. (Enjoyable and completely unrelated truth: Common legislation agency billing charges had been $749 per hour in 2022.)
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Kast Media’s chapter case continues. As a part of its public filings, we get to see the company’s monthly accounts. The corporate earnt $5,792 from Apple Podcasts in October (we presume from paid subscriptions), and $6,153 from promoting.
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