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Amount of ads in podcasts grows by 20%: Still much smaller than broadcast radio, though https://podnews.net/update/adload-grows-in-podcasts

Podcast listening grows among Black Americans: Spotify rebrands Ad Studio, and the British Podcast Awards nominations https://podnews.net/update/podcast-listening-black-audience

Study: $1 in podcast ads = $4.90 in increased sales: Podcast advertising gives better return on ad-spend than ads on social media or radio. https://podnews.net/update/podcast-advertising-roas

Ad-skipping insights released for podcasts: Podcasting does surprisingly well for ad-skipping, it turns out https://podnews.net/update/ad-nauseam

Spotify for Podcasters release new terms of use: We take a good long look at them, but there are no surprises. https://podnews.net/update/spotify-tandcs-2024

Pocket Casts looking at supporting transcripts: That would make it the 19th app to support them. Plus, an upcoming Sports Audio Report. https://podnews.net/update/pocket-casts-transcripts

Podcasts reach younger audiences: The median age of a podcast listener is 22 years younger than television https://podnews.net/update/podcasts-average-age

Kara Swisher Launches AI Interview Series at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center #pressrelease #podcasting https://podnews.net/press-release/university-interview-bloomberg-launches-swisher

The Pitch for Podcasts: Attracting an ever-growing and highly engaged audience #pressrelease #podcasting https://podnews.net/press-release/podcast-consumer-2024

US podcast ad revenue growth slowed in 2023: The sector grew slower than digital overall. Plus, iHeart's new financials show they're still growing https://podnews.net/update/iab-us-podcast-ad-revenue-breaking

2.5 million podcast episode transcripts: And, discover the top 1,000 shows on Spotify https://podnews.net/update/millions-of-podcast-transcripts

The Peabody Awards and Center for Media & Social Impact launch We Disrupt This Broadcast #pressrelease #podcasting https://podnews.net/press-release/peabody-disrupt-podcast

Infinite Dial: Listening to Podcasts and Online Audio Hit New All-Time Highs #pressrelease #podcasting https://podnews.net/press-release/infinite-dial-2024

Adobe Podcast Studio launches in beta: A new promotion tool, audiencelift, launches https://podnews.net/update/adobe-podcast-studio

Vid2Pod turns YouTube videos into podcasts: Breaking shows out of YouTube's proprietary ecosystem https://podnews.net/update/blubrry-vid2pod-youtube-to-podcasts

Ausha unveils Exclusive Study about Apple Podcasts Algorithm #pressrelease #podcasting https://podnews.net/press-release/ausha-podcasts-seo

Edison Podcast Metrics publishes Top 50 Podcasts in the US for Q4 2023 #pressrelease #podcasting https://podnews.net/press-release/epm-q42024

Podbean Launches Podbean AI, a Full Suite of Innovative AI Capabilities for Podcast Creators #pressrelease #podcasting https://podnews.net/press-release/podbean-ai

The growth of podcasting in Latin America: By 2027, there will be more podcast listeners in Latin America than anywhere else in the world. https://podnews.net/update/latin-america-growth-for-podcasting

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