Jon Stewart to launch The Weekly Show podcast

• “After much reflection, meditation, and prayer, I have decided to extend my work week to two days.” Jon Stewart is to launch a new podcast, The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, next month. The present, from MTV Leisure Studios, might be produced by Paramount Audio and Busboy Productions.

• Digiday covered the IAB’s annual Podcast Upfront, which came about yesterday in New York Metropolis.

• Audacy released its Q1/24 financial results. The corporate, which didn’t maintain an earnings name, didn’t launch podcast information.

• Headliner has added free captioning for full-length episodes.

• You’ve three weeks to enter The Independent Podcast Awards, which shut on the finish of the month. The awards are in London in October.

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• Need a huge visitor in your podcast? TYX Studios has Jordan Schwarzenberger, the manager of YouTube powerhouse The Sidemen, and you can get the chance to interview him within the pop-up studio at The Podcast Present in London later this month.

• Storytel, a Swedish audiobook and publishing firm, is to add 6,000 Swedish-language podcasts to its service.

• SpeakUp AI, a software that takes textual articles and produces podcasts along with your cloned voice, has raised $500,000. It’s based mostly in Redmond WA, USA.

• Apple has apologised for its much-criticised iPad ad. The corporate, historically the primary alternative for creatives together with many podcasters, stated that it “missed the mark” with the video, which confirmed inventive symbols like a piano, a metronome and tins of paint being crushed by a hydraulic press. Nonetheless, the advert – which is a copy of a fifteen year-old TV spot for an LG Android phone – nonetheless remains on Tim Cook’s Twitter account, and on YouTube, the place the corporate has turned comments off.

• Additional studying: Don’t imagine the doom and gloom, says Chris Petersen’s DWNLOAD Media in an article: the overall health of the podcast space is good.

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Podcast information for Might 10

#1 in Apple Podcasts
Blood is Thicker: The Hargan Family Killings (CBS Information)
Intrigue (BBC Radio 4)

#1 in Spotify
The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan)
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett (Steven Bartlett)

Over the past week, 206,304 podcasts printed no less than one new episode (down 3.4%). source

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