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- Oct 8: Alex Cooper has launched an ad agency. The Unwell Creative Agency will act “as a conduit for brands to reach Gen Z women through live events, original productions and the parent company’s podcast network.” The agency’s first deal is a multi-year partnership with Google.
- Oct 1: In the UK, a new, female-founded video podcast network has been launched by former Google, YouTube, and BBC & Freemantle execs. HERA is founded by Rosie Allimonos, Nishma Patel Robb and Kirsty Hunter, and aims “to unlock the most underserved audience in media history: women”.
- Sep 29: Our RSS download stats from Thurs Sep 23, 2021 vs four years later, Thurs Sep 25, 2025 are an interesting read. Google has increased its call to our RSS feeds almost 7× from 347 a day to 2,387. (Part of that is YouTube’s RSS ingestion). In total, we’ve seen a 37% increase in requests for our podcast RSS feed in that time.
- Aug 18: YouTube Music has added a “skip silence” function for podcast playback. The function was in Google Podcasts, which the company closed in June last year. The feature is still not available in Apple Podcasts.
- Jul 21: Podcast app TrueFans is now in the Apple App store and the Google Play store. The app is free, and offers ways to pay podcasters, follow your fans, and a set of additional features.
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