The Ambies: the winners for 2025

• The winners of The 2025 Ambies were announced in Chicago – the fifth annual awards for excellence in audio, in a ceremony hosted by Tig Notaro forward of Podcast Motion Evolutions. Hysterical received Podcast of the Yr; Ira Glass was honored with the esteemed Governors Award; and Sam Sanders obtained the Influence Award. We link to all the winners.

• In a daring transfer, Magellan AI has announced a rebrand to Podgellan AI. The podcast promoting intelligence platform tells Podnews that the change displays a deep dedication to the podcast house.

• iOS 18.4 is now available as an update for iPhone and iPad. Amongst many different enhancements, the replace provides two new home-screen widgets for Apple Podcasts: a “adopted present” widget to straight place the Podnews Every day your favorite present’s newest episodes on your own home display screen; and a library widget to get to your most used sections, like newest episodes or Stations.

• Submissions are now open for the CrimeCon’s 2025 Clue Awards. The awards, recognising excellence and accountable true crime storytelling, embody two podcast classes: “Excellent Episodic Sequence” and “Excellent Docuseries”

• In Spanish, the 100th edition of the AudioGen 3×3 newsletter has been published. The version options three voices within the world spoken audio trade: Daniel Alarcón (co-founder of Radio Ambulante, USA and Latin America), Lucas Fridman (OLGA, Argentina) and Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland.

• Voices, a voiceover market, has launched a report saying that more than half of ad agencies have used an AI voice at some point in the creative process. Nevertheless, the corporate means that they’re used for preliminary drafts, not remaining work.

• In Jul 2023, podcast host Podbean was running deceptive Google ads that appeared as in the event that they have been the web sites of their rivals. Sadly, Podbean is displaying a poor grasp of moral behaviour once more: with advertisements seen yesterday which are passing off as links to RedCircle, Transistor and Captivate. These advertisements are in opposition to Google advert coverage and could also be in opposition to US legislation. We’ve once more contacted Podbean; and once more, they haven’t responded.

• Additional studying: Why are podcast ads so bad? asks Andrew Sanford.

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