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• Breaking Congratulations to Acast, which has just achieved v2.2 of the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines. They’re the eighth to get to v2.2 this 12 months.

• iVoox has launched iVoox Rewind 2024, highlighting the largest reveals in Spain and Latin America. In a blog post, the corporate stated it had greater than 800mn listens in 2024, and noticed the launch of 80,000 new podcasts.

• UK firm Adelicious has also looked back at the company’s 2024. The invite-only community has delivered its one billionth advert impression this 12 months, and has welcomed top-tier reveals from Avalon, amongst others.

• Headliner has introduced that it’ll now produce captions for automated videos and audiograms created in Headliner. You’ve management of the font face and elegance they use, and they are often added totally routinely.

• Obtained shares in Libsyn? The company is reminding you of its tender offer, which closes on Friday.

• A comprehensive survey of podcasts in New Zealand has been published by Lewis Tennant. The info means that there are extra podcasts from unbiased producers than from media organisations, and the longest-running present within the nation is Freedom Scientific’s FSCast, a podcast for blind folks and people with low imaginative and prescient.

• What to present the podcast editor in your life for Christmas? How about… the waveform for “umm”, on a hoodie? or a t-shirt, or a hat, or a mug or (cheapskate) a sticker?

• In the event you make an investigative podcast, it’s reasonably more durable to show it into video for YouTube. 1UpMedia, based mostly in Singapore, has confirmed us the results of their homegrown tool that adds animations, using a mix of human and AI tools. It’s spectacular; and has made this true crime podcast much more standard on YouTube than it’s as an audio present. The corporate’s founder, Guang Jin Yeo, is contemplating making this service obtainable to different publishers.

• Blubrry has announced a collaboration with Adobe Podcast, giving internet hosting prospects two months of Adobe Podcast and Specific Premium.

• There’s a brand new #1 podcast in Australia, in response to the Triton Digital Podcast Ranker. Casefile True Crime, which final month switched to Acast, has crushed Hamish & Andy for the primary time since February. ARN stays high writer; SCA’s LiSTNR is high gross sales consultant, however ARN is now lower than 250,000 listeners behind it, and the recent addition of BBC shows ought to push it over.

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