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• Exclusive: A podcast app that skips ads has been launched. Adblock Podcast is constructed by Micah Engle-Eshleman, who expenses listeners to skip adverts, and shares that revenue with podcast creators. The service additionally caches audio to keep away from negatively impacting advertisers who pay per impression. We’ve the primary interview with Micah in immediately’s version of the Podnews Weekly Review, to study the way it works, and what its future is.

• Sounds Worthwhile’s Tom Webster has launched a ebook. The Audience Is Listening: A Little Guide to Building a Big Podcast will not be a ebook telling you the right way to make a podcast (“you know the way to try this”), and as a substitute, tells you the right way to make your podcast higher.

  • Our link to the book helps help unbiased bookstores, is cheaper than Amazon, and we earn $2 for every ebook bought.

• Acast released its Q2 2024 financial report. Internet gross sales grew by 24% year-on-year to SEK 477.9 mn (US $44mn), pushed by North America and Europe; complete listens dropped 15% y-on-y to 1,104 mn after the changes in Apple’s iOS 17. The figures are described as “one other step nearer to profitability”.

  • Earlier this week, Audioboom revealed its eCPM (income per 1,000 downloads) of $60.09. For comparability, we calculate Acast’s common eCPM is $39.63.

• Podcast hosting company bCast is to close. “It has merely not been attainable to maintain the quantity of utilization with the income generated”, says an e-mail to prospects, seen by Podnews. The London-based firm had grown by promoting “lifetime” offers, which it tried to cancel in 2021, (and, a day later, changed its mind). The corporate hosts round 1,500 exhibits, of which round 350 are lively.

• Podcast Movement has published its full schedule for its occasion close to Washington DC in August. MrBallen is the most recent massive identify to be confirmed as a speaker. Code PODNEWS saves cash on passes.

• Lemonada Media has announced Lemonada Books, working with a division of Simon & Schuster. The primary titles can be primarily based on David Duchovny’s Fail Better, and Last Day.

• British podcast company Persephonica is to move its headquarters to Sheffield. The corporate makes among the greatest exhibits within the nation, and its transfer to South Yorkshire will assist develop podcasting expertise within the area.

• In Dubai, the Al Arabiya Network has launched a new global Arab language podcast network known as Mazeej.

• Wondercraft is to unveil a brand new interface on Aug 5. There’s an e-mail in your inbox when you’re a Wondercraft consumer with extra data.

• Bloomberg has revealed a profile of Joe Rogan, and his move to Austin TX, together with his comedy membership The Mothership.

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Makes You Wonder is new this weekend from Wondercraft’s Oskar Serrander, who examines the connection between human creativity and synthetic intelligence, exploring the great, the dangerous, and the way it hinders and allows our inventive, human pursuits. The present is hosted on Acast.



The Dr Hilary Show was launched earlier this week. Hosted by Dr Hilary Jones, a UK “media medic”, the present will embrace the most recent well being information and well-known friends. His first visitor is Piers Morgan, the previous newspaper editor and CNN presenter.

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#1 in Apple Podcasts
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#1 in Spotify
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