My Favorite Murder: a new entry at 6 in Podtrac

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Podtrac has published the top 20 podcasts for the US for April. There’s no change in the top 5, but My Favorite Murder ▸ is brand new at #6. Amazon bought the rights in January; it’s already a top ten podcast with Triton Digital’s Podcast Ranker and Edison Research’s Podcast Consumer Tracking Report. Podtrac’s data is participating publishers, now including Exactly Right Media.
- Of interest, Anchor artwork appears as Google’s Knowledge Graph image for My Favorite Murder, rather than the real podcast image. On Spotify, a search for “My Favorite Murder” takes you to a poorly produced music album by “Penny Bank”, called “Murder Podcasts”, with somebody reading out a critique of podcast artwork over a cheap electronic drumbeat; and a set of more than ten playlists with the artwork and shows jumbled up into a random order. “Spotify respects the rights of intellectual property owners”, they say, though when we tried to find that quote, Spotify’s main website had fallen over.
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