Podnews - SmartLess jumps into the Podtrac top 20

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Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett’s podcast SmartLess ▸ is a new entry at #9 in the Podtrac top US podcasts list for August. The show was bought by Amazon’s Wondery at the end of June. Podtrac contains participating publishers only.
- Earlier this year, SmartLess was also the second-highest new entry in the top 50 US podcasts from Edison Research’s Podcast Consumer Tracking Report.
Magellan AI has partnered with Ad Alliance to analyse over a hundred podcasts in the German-language podcast market of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Ad revenue for the market has increased 220% in a year.
Writing for The Fix, David Tvrdon covers the different paid audio strategies from European publishers, including Germany’s Der Spiegel, Poland’s TOK FM, Denmark’s Zetland and others.

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Acast Sweden is the latest company to run a podcast competition. Poddnästet gives podcasters the opportunity to win a high-quality podcast production and marketing package worth 250,000 SEK (US $30,000). You’ve until Oct 29. Lycka till! Kom ihåg oss när du är rik och känd.
Erick Erickson, a radio broadcaster and podcaster ▸ in Atlanta GA, has partnered with BG AD GROUP and BG PODCAST NETWORKS.
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Congratulations to Tiffany Dimmack who becomes a Podcast Editor for Australia’s News Corp later this month (after spotting the job in Podjobs!) Elsewhere, Steph Freeland-Small has been made Head of Digital Audio Commercial in Melbourne at NOVA Entertainment, and also for NOVA, Liz Maplestone has been made Head of Digital Audio Commercial for Adelaide, Perth and, intruigingly, “International”. NOVA is owned by Lachlan Murdoch; News Corp owned by his father Rupert.
Joe Rogan has “lost his contract with Spotify”, said a website called Patheos last Friday. The story quotes “Andrew Canard” as Spotify CEO: Andrew is also quoted by Patheos in other stories as a vet, a land-owner, an attorney, a researcher, a catholic teacher, a pastor, a reporter, a judge, CEO of Fox News, and PM of The Netherlands. Mr Canard isn’t any of those either.

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Osher Günsberg is celebrating 400 episodes of his podcast Better Than Yesterday ▸. With Acast, the podcast earns “enough to employ a whole team of people”, he says.

Women vs Hollywood ▸ is a new podcast from Helen O’Hara, to accompany her critically-acclaimed book focusing on the fall and rise of women in Hollywood.

Witnessed: Borderlands ▸ is new from Sony Music Podcasts and Campside Media: an investigative podcast series examining the dirty secrets of the Texas borderlands. The series debuts today, and is hosted by Rob D’Amico.

On The Outside ▸ calls itself a “news panel podcast for people who spend leisure time outdoors in the UK”. It’s produced by Francesca Turauskis.

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