Acast scores New Zealand’s biggest interview podcast

• Unique: The Between Two Beers podcast, New Zealand’s hottest long-form interview podcast, has signed a multi-year deal with Acast. The partnership will embody advert and sponsorship alternatives on the audio podcast, video podcast and related social channels. The present was beforehand with NZME.

• Causes to be cheerful: at Sign Hill Insights, Paul Riismandel is optimistic about podcasting in 2025 – declaring that a lot has modified within the ten years since Serial. Not least – there’s a 3.4x larger probability of discovering an viewers in 2025 than in 2014.

• “You’re not shopping for sufficient podcasts”: Cumulus Media’s message to advertisers in the company’s 2025 Audioscape. No model is coming near saturating podcast audiences, says Pierre Bouvard.

• Podscribe added an “audience overlap” tool, which permits advertisers to guage listener duplication throughout channels, reveals, campaigns and publishers.

• Podtrac has added two new features for customers of its $20/month “grow your show” plan – Smartlinks, to measure the effectiveness of on-line promotions, and rankings from Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

• What’s out and in for 2025? Lauren Passell and Arielle Nissenblatt have written a blog post, and can focus on the submit in a LinkedIn event this Friday.

• Simply earlier than Christmas, Podnews investigated Licensync, a “assortment company” which was sending invoices of more than $7,300 to podcast directories. One month later, we be aware that their website has been suspended. Your help of Podnews did that. Thanks.

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• What are the most well-liked names? In 2021, we found that the most popular podcast name was “Les podcasts de Graffiti City Radio” which is a bit bizarre. However, there are 270 reveals known as “Actual Discuss”, and 185 reveals known as, er, “Podcast”. Learn the remainder of the record to keep away from.

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