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The winners of the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards 2022 were announced. You can watch again on YouTube. The winner of the Podcast of the Year was You’re Wrong About ▸.
- We’ve done some analysis on the winners; a third were “indie”, 38% of the winners were female, and just 4 winning podcasts were from iHeartRadio.
Audry has launched paid promotions for podcasters: a way to promote your show in others. More than 50 shows are already taking part.
Edison Research and Ad Results Media are to debut their Super Listeners report in a webinar on Feb 16. It focuses on people who listen to five or more hours of podcasts weekly.

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Slate has announced more episodes from its popular podcasts. What Next: TBD ▸ gains an additional Sunday show; Political Gabfest ▸ adds a new book club show every month; Working ▸ now has new advice spinoffs every fortnight; and Mom and Dad are Fighting ▸ moves to two shows a week from April.
Pat Flynn’s Fusebox, which offers an embedded podcast player, is to offer podcast hosting. Dubbed “Easy Hosting”, it’ll launch on Feb 15, and cost $5/month, per show, for up to 100,000 listens per show.
Rephonic has launched a new tool to show you how many subscribers and followers you have in various players and services. Here’s how we stack up.
How do the podcast charts work? Find out in this free online seminar with our Editor on Feb 7, at midday CET (6am New York).
For Morning Brew, Dan Toomey posts a satirical peek at how Spotify’s content advisory message might work.

Moves and hires

Stuart Buckland has joined audio experience agency Ampel as Director, Audio Production. He was at Network 10.
Lauren Deighton has also joined Ampel as Director, Media Partnerships. She’s worked for VICE Media and Enigma Communication.

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Produced by Quill: The Great Indoors ▸ How has technology changed around the world? Join Matt Roberts from Amdocs as he discusses how human technological adoption habits are evolving as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how we’re rediscovering the magic of technology as a necessary result of being indoors.

Missed Last Podcast On The Left ▸? It’s now back in your regular podcast apps. The show was a Spotify Exclusive, but signed with Stitcher last October. It’s still in Spotify, too.

Earth Eclipsed ▸ is an 8-episode sci-fi adventure series that has won several awards, including 5 Lovie Awards and has been an official selection of the 2021 Tribeca Festival. An 'exciting and thought-provoking ride that unravels a thrilling mystery and launches audiences into a universe unseen before’, it’s available in full now.

Supernatural Then and Now ▸ is a rewatch podcast for TV’s longest-running fantasy series, Supernatural. It launched at the end of last month, and is hosted by Richard Speight, Jr., and Rob Benedict - it’s being produced by Story Mill Media.

Welcome to Our Show ▸ is a rewatch podcast of New Girl, hosted by the show’s stars Zooey Deschanel, Hannah Simone and Lamorne Morris. It’s available every Monday, and launched Jan 24. The trio will rewatch the Emmy-nominated series to reveal never-before-told stories, their favorite memories from creating the show and divulge moments and scenes left on the cutting room floor; it’s an iHeartRadio production.

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