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September 2, 2024:
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Meanwhile, in Oct 2022, SCA’s LiSTNR announced that it was to represent Wondery shows. With the addition of New Heights to Wondery’s slate, SCA has added New Heights to LiSTNR and will represent that show in Australia.
August 6, 2024:
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A new season of Secrets We Keep starts today - an exploration of Australia’s biggest corruption scandal when a trusted Australian company funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to dictator Saddam Hussein in the lead-up to the Iraq War. The scandal, which unfolded in the early 2000s, revealed a complex web of corruption and deceit involving the United Nations' oil-for-food program in Iraq.
July 17, 2024:
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The ABC claims more shows in the top 200 than anyone else, while LiSTNR is the #1 sales network and iHeart is the #1 podcast publisher by listeners. The ranker measures participating publishers only.
July 8, 2024:
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Clair Weaver has been appointed Head of Factual for LiSTNR.
June 10, 2024:
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While some of the podcast industry are in Cannes, Australia’s SCA has been in Cairns.
May 31, 2024:
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In Australia, LiSTNR has partnered with DataCo Technologies to allow advertisers to integrate their own databases with LiSTNR’s 1.95mn first-party database, while respecting privacy. The country has had a number of well-documented data leaks in the last few years, including a health insurer and a cellular phone company.
May 15, 2024:
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The Triton Digital Podcast Ranker is out for Australia. ABC News Top Stories is new at #3 (like NPR News Now, it’s the bulletin that also appears if you ask a smart speaker for the latest news). Everyone is a winner: ARN/iHeart is #1 publisher by listeners; LiSTNR/SCA is #1 sales representative, though ARN is close on its heels, and the ABC is #1 for total downloads.
May 10, 2024:
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The Mi3 Audio Edition this week focuses on LiSTNR's tech stack - and features an interview with Kim Loasby, SCA Head of Digital Ad Product & Operations and Luke Minto, National Head of Audio Sales. LiSTNR is the radio, music and podcasts app from Australian broadcaster SCA.
May 8, 2024:
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Lorna Clarkson has joined Australian podcast production company Audiocraft as Head of Production. She joins from LiSTNR and Kinderling Kids.
April 17, 2024:
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One of the two big Australian commercial podcast publishers, ARN, is bidding to buy the other, its competitor SCA. “If the proposal goes ahead, we expect ARN would close its iHeart app and shift to LiSTNR as a single audio streaming platform,” says an analyst from Morgan Stanley.
March 15, 2024:
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LiSTNR, the Australian audio app, has launched an adtech hub. It is said to offer “increased personalisation and targeting, extensive dynamic creative optimisation and an Australian based CDP and first party data clean room solutions and services”.
March 13, 2024:
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The Australian Podcast Ranker for February was released by CRA and Triton Digital. LiSTNR is #1 for sales representation; ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia is #1 publisher in terms of monthly listeners; the ABC is #1 in terms of total downloads.
March 6, 2024:
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Australia’s LiSTNR app has had its biggest redesign since its launch three years ago. It makes the radio, podcasts, music and sport app more personalised.
February 1, 2024:
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Secrets We Keep is back from LiSTNR with a global story about secrets, power, national security and how countries behave when they think no-one is watching. LiSTNR investigative journalist, Joey Watson, is on a three-year hunt to find the spy who betrayed Australia.
December 14, 2023:
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The Australian Podcast Ranker was released for November. For the first time, it includes the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The ABC says it has the most titles in the top 200, with long-form interview show Conversations landing at #5. LiSTNR claims the #1 podcast slot, with Hamish & Andy being the only podcast with more than a million listeners; ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia claims #1 publisher. The top 10 shows are all Australian.
November 22, 2023:
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Bryce Crosswell is to leave Acast and join SCA's LiSTNR as Head of Digital Sales in Melbourne.
November 21, 2023:
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Kyle Hopkins has started at LiSTNR as a Sound Designer. As an audio engineer, he's done freelance work with The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and Deadset Studios.
October 31, 2023:
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Libsyn's AdvertiseCast has signed an ad partnership deal with Big IP Media to cover four popular reality-TV podcasts ... PodcastOne signed multiyear extensions for On Display with Melissa Gorga, Gals on the Go and LADYGANG (which it renewed in March) ... ARN's iHeart Podcast Network Australia announced a multi-year sales partnership with 7NEWS, Australia’s most-watched television network for news and public affairs. ARN has launched a takeover bid for its rival SCA/LiSTNR.
October 18, 2023:
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In Australia, the owner of iHeartPodcast Network Australia ARN Media has made a hostile bid to take over its competitor, SCA (which owns LiSTNR). The radio market is worth AUD $1.7bn (US $1.1bn): ARN and SCA are the two largest companies. If successful, the broadcast radio business would be split into two companies for regulatory reasons; however, the podcast businesses aren't subject to the same ownership regulation.
October 16, 2023:
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In Australia, the winners of the ACRA awards were announced: the awards for the Australian Commercial Radio industry. There were a number of podcast awards; the Podcast of the Year went to LiSTNR's The Children In The Pictures.
October 13, 2023:
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In Australia, Media Week published the "Power List" for 2023, the publication's top 100 list of media executives. From podcasting, congratulations to LiSTNR's Grant Tothill at #88, and iHeartRadio Australia's Corey Layton at #87.
September 13, 2023:
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A new Australian Podcast Ranker has been released for August. SCA's LiSTNR now has over 8mn monthly listeners. ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia is celebrating being the #1 podcast publisher for 40 consecutive rankers.
September 4, 2023:
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LiSTNR has worked with the Australian Electoral Commission to produce Your Answer Matters, a podcast to help people understand the upcoming referendum in the country. Voting is compulsory; voters will be asked if the Constitution should be altered to recognise the First Peoples of Australia, by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. We hope you'll vote "yes".
August 9, 2023:
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Podcast host and journalist Amelia Oberhardt thought she knew her mum - until she died. At her mum’s wake, Oberhardt discovered a photo of her mother as a teenager, wearing a wedding ring, standing beside her apparent husband and cuddling an unknown baby. Secrets We Keep dives into the hidden histories of secret pregnancies, shotgun marriages, forced adoptions, and the challenges faced by young women in impossible situations. It's new this week from LiSTNR.
July 12, 2023:
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Babylab is back for a second season, looking at how babies think. The podcast is made with the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University and produced by LiSTNR. It's hosted by kids entertainer Emma Watkins.
June 26, 2023:
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Oliver Newton has been hired by SCA as Executive Head - LiSTNR Commercial. He joins from Amazon, where he was AdTech Sales Director.
June 22, 2023:
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Kim Loasby has been announced as SCA's Head of Digital Ad Product & Operations. In her new remit, Loasby will oversee the creation and development of all digital advertising products across the LiSTNR platform.
June 21, 2023:
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The owner of the iHeartPodcast Network Australia, ARN Media has bought a 14.7% share of its competitor SCA, which owns LiSTNR. Media ownership laws mean it can't own more than 15%.
June 14, 2023:
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The Australian Podcast Ranker for May was released. Both ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia and SCA's LiSTNR claim various #1 slots. The #1 publisher in the country is the ABC, but they are still not participating in the ranker; they announced their participation in March (and in Oct 2019).
May 15, 2023:
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Seb Rennie, who was hired by SCA in February as Executive Head, LiSTNR Commercial, is to be the company's new Chief Commercial Officer.
May 1, 2023:
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SCA, the owner of the LiSTNR app in Australia, has announced a new CEO: John Kelly, the company's current COO. The current CEO, Grant Blackley, will step down on Jun 30.
April 20, 2023:
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The Triton Digital Australian Podcast Ranker was released for March. In the ranker, NRL podcast Bloke in a Bar was the highest new entry at #10; Hamish & Andy regained the top spot with just over 2m monthly downloads. LiSTNR posted a 23% month-on-month increase.
March 29, 2023:
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This Arvo in Sydney is new from LiSTNR. Yeah, nah, it's a bloody in-depth podcast for Sydney, available every arvo! The company reckons it's the first in-depth local news podcast just for people in Sydney: you can listen on your way to Woolies to pick up a bachelors handbag and a four-pack of Carlton Dry, mate.
March 27, 2023:
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Broadsheet Sydney: Around Town is a new, ten-minute, three-times-a-week podcast produced by LiSTNR and Broadsheet Media. The podcasts will feature a rotating cast of Broadsheet editors to provide their finger-on-the-pulse expertise and reveal to listeners the real secrets of their city.
March 20, 2023:
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LiSTNR's Just the Gist has hit ten million downloads. The show tells stories about famous scandals, true crimes, celeb drama, conspiracy theories, politics, and amazing people throughout history.
March 15, 2023:
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The Australian Podcast Ranker for February has been released, containing shows from Shameless Media and Squiz Media for the first time. The ABC's figures could be in next month. Kyle & Jackie O, from iHeart, is the new #1 podcast. SCA's LiSTNR claims it now reaches more than 6.5m monthly listeners.
March 6, 2023:
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From LiSTNR, Defending Democracy with Malcolm Turnbull features the former Australian Prime Minister asking whether we're witnessing the decline of democracy. Expect guests including Australian MPs and a former British Prime Minister, Theresa May.
February 21, 2023:
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The owner of LiSTNR, SCA also released its annual report. It claims 3.4mn monthly podcast listeners, and 889,000 registered users on LiSTNR. Digital revenue was AU$20.7mn (US $14mn), up 35% y/y: 5.2% of total audio revenue (the group also owns television licences).
February 15, 2023:
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The Australian Podcast Ranker for January was released. SCA's LiSTNR claims number one, while ARN's iHeartPodnews Network Australia also claims number one. SiriusXM (represented by LiSTNR) reached #2 in the publisher list, despite making no shows in the country.
February 10, 2023:
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Seb Rennie has been hired as Executive Head - LiSTNR Commercial. He'll drive the commercial strategy for the Australian radio and podcast app.
February 7, 2023:
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LiSTNR show Just the Gist returns for 2023 with Rosie Waterland returning to the mic full time, re-joining co-host Jacob Stanley. The show, which looks at scandals, conspiracies, politics and people, also moves to being twice-weekly.
January 18, 2023:
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The Australian Podcast Ranker for December was released by Triton Digital. SCA's Hamish & Andy lost their top spot - but then, they didn't release a single show in December; the #1 is now Casefile True Crime, produced by Audioboom and represented by ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia, which remains the top publisher; while SCA's LiSTNR remains the top sales house (just). Both claim they're #1 in press releases.
December 14, 2022:
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The new Australian Podcast Ranker was released. Mamamia joins the ranker and claims it is "the biggest Australian pure podcast network"; both LiSTNR and iHeart also claimed they were #1.
December 7, 2022:
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After announcing yesterday it was leaving NOVA, DM Podcasts announced today a new partnership with LiSTNR.
November 30, 2022:
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Australian podcasters Hamish and Andy have signed a multi-year extension with LiSTNR. Their podcast will be played on Hit radio breakfast shows across Australia throughout December.
November 24, 2022:
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Wil Anderson and Charlie Clausen, long-time Australian indie podcasters, have been signed by LiSTNR. More than 400 episodes will move to the platform, though they'll continue to be made available elsewhere.
November 21, 2022:
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It’s a Sign: Your Daily Astrology Tip was launched today by LiSTNR, promising "studied, considered astrology based on planetary transits, moon phases and cosmic weather". Host Katherine Gilles says "by learning to align your week with the cosmos, you can step into a rhythm and flow which is otherwise untapped". Aussie rival iHeart launched an astrology show last week.
November 18, 2022:
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Triton Digital's Australian Podcast Ranker for October was released. We had two press releases: ARN tells us that ARN's iHeartPodcast Network is #1, while confusingly, LiSTNR tells us that LiSTNR, also, is #1.
November 4, 2022:
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Aussie music legends Peking Duk are to do a podcast, called Peking Duk Podcast, which launches today from LiSTNR. The podcast comes with original music overlays and immersive sound effects where the boys and their guests recount crazy career moments. The Duk will chat with some of their best mates in the music and media industry including The Inspired Unemployed, The Kooks, Brooke Boney, Tony Armstrong, Flex Mami, Alex Dyson, Jack River, Muselk, Alex Lahey and more.
November 3, 2022:
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In Australia, LiSTNR has launched The Children in the Pictures, which tells the true story of an elite team of Queensland police called Taskforce Argos fighting child abuse online. DNX Media and LiSTNR went to court to tell this story, requesting the removal of a longstanding suppression order over the name of a website; and secured special judicial approval to release the arrest tape and police interviews with the Australian kingpin running it, while Argos gave remarkable access to key evidence from its investigations.
October 21, 2022:
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In Australia, LiSTNR has reached one million signed-up users. It launched eighteen months ago.
October 18, 2022:
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The Australian Podcast Ranker for September was released. SCA says LiSTNR is #1. ARN says its iHeartPodcast Network is also #1. The ranker doesn't measure the ABC, which is probably #1.
October 7, 2022:
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Hot on the heels of an agreement with Stitcher and SiriusXM, SCA's LiSTNR has announced that it will also exclusively represent Wondery's podcasts in Australia.
October 4, 2022:
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In Australia, SCA's LiSTNR has announced an agreement to represent Stitcher and SiriusXM inventory in the country. This will increase LiSTNR's monthly podcast reach by 81%.
September 23, 2022:
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SCA, an Australian radio broadcaster and operator of audio app LiSTNR, has signed a multi-year podcast deal with AFL, the Australian Football League.
September 15, 2022:
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Podcast Day 24, Oct 4 in Sydney, London and NYC, has announced more of their speakers. We hear that Sounds Profitable's Tom Webster will be revealing more data from The Creators in NYC; London will feature the Podcast of the Year, Dear Daughter; and Sydney will include a focus on new and emerging formats from LiSTNR's Jen Goggin. The code
PODN1215 gets in-person tickets at around half-price, and includes full video catchup of all three events.
August 31, 2022:
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LiSTNR's Just the Gist is to run a three-part mini series on true crime, promoting NBCUniversal's Hayu TV platform.
August 16, 2022:
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Triton Digital's Australian Podcast Ranker for July was released. Hamish & Andy remains the #1 show; while ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia remains the #1 publisher. The ranker measures participating publishers only.
August 10, 2022:
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The Sport is brand new from LiSTNR and Schwartz Media, and "will delve into back page stories with front page analysis."
August 4, 2022:
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The Science Briefing has been launched by LiSTNR and the Royal Institution of Australia. It's the second co-created podcast from the pair.
August 3, 2022:
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Australian podcast network LiSTNR has made their first rom-com audio fiction series. Jennifer Goggin and Steph Van Schilt, who worked on the show together, are interviewed by Australia's Audiocraft newsletter.
August 2, 2022:
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Is the future "sensory non-music audio"? LiSTNR seems to think so: the Australian audio platform has worked with an AI company to produce a brown noise audio soundtrack designed to help you focus, and an ambient noise to help sleep.
July 29, 2022:
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Grant Blackley, CEO of SCA, which owns LiSTNR, spoke about his company's app at a recent conference.
June 15, 2022:
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Triton Digital released the Australian Podcast Ranker for May. Of interest - now exclusive to the LiSTNR app, Hamish & Andy's Remembering Project saw 310,647 downloads in May; the show's last season in August, where it was available everywhere, did 572,113 downloads. (The ranker lists participating publishers only, and doesn't list the ABC, the country's largest podcaster).
April 28, 2022:
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Another popular podcast has gone exclusive - Hamish & Andy’s Remembering Project has a new season starting today, now exclusive to the LiSTNR app. The show did 100,261 downloads in March, making it #71 in Australian-made shows in the Australian Podcast Ranker. It’s a spinoff of the Hamish & Andy podcast which is #1, with 2,258,000 downloads in March; there are no such plans to make that exclusive.
April 13, 2022:
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What happens when you go exclusive? 2 Guys 1 Cup achieved 32,714 downloads in February's Australian Podcast Ranker; it went exclusive to SCA's LiSTNR in early March; resulting in the show dropping out of the Ranker entirely.
April 12, 2022:
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Mark Pesce - The Next Billion Seconds has found a new home at Ampel. Hosted by Pesce, who is a futurist, entrepreneur and author, The Next Billion Seconds explores how the choices we all make today shape our tomorrow. The show was previously with LiSTNR.
March 29, 2022:
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An Australian podcast covering a swindle got swindled themselves - by a fake guest. The guest, working through a bogus PR agency, demanded payment for her appearance on LiSTNR's The Briefing. Owner SCA said they removed the episode, and didn't pay.
March 7, 2022:
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A successful Australian podcast goes exclusive on SCA's LiSTNR app this week. 2 Guys 1 Cup got 28,655 downloads in January, according to the Australian Podcast Ranker, but will no longer be available on other platforms from this week. The Podcast Ranker means we can monitor the effect exclusivity has on their figures.
February 23, 2022:
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In Australia, The owner of the iHeartPodcast Network Australia, HT&E's ARN "plans to invest heavily in podcasting", according to their 2021 results, which were released today. Meanwhile, SCA's LiSTNR is to invest in audio fiction.
February 17, 2022:
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Acast has signed Ash London's podcast. Ash is a former radio personality with SCA, but has joined LiSTNR's rival for her second season.
February 9, 2022:
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In recent agreements, AdLarge is renewing with Nielsen for audio measurement … Cumulus has formed a partnership with political network The Bulwark … LiSTNR has partnered with the Law Society of NSW for a new podcast, Lawfully Explained … and Sounder is partnering with Dr. Guy Macpherson on a podcasting workshop for mental health professionals. Two creators will be sponsored by the podcast host.
January 18, 2022:
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How Fitness Saved My Life is new from LiSTNR, co-hosted by (deep breath) former American college football player, wrestler turned half-ironman competitor, and strength coach, Alexa Towersey, (‘Action Alexa'), and ex-competitive gymnast, BMX racer and now multidiscipline high-performance athlete and coach, Jenna Louise. It's a podcast that will expand our understanding of what the human body is capable of, we're told; and it launches today. - read more
December 15, 2021:
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The Australian Podcast Ranker for November was published, along with a fancy new website that lets you filter the results. Casefile is still #1 podcast; ARN's iHeart Podcast Network Australia is #1 network for the 19th consecutive time; rival LiSTNR claims it has more shows in the top 50 Australian shows ranker than any other podcast publisher - which they might, but in the main top 100, it has 17 - the same number as ARN.
December 9, 2021:
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Ian Walker is to join SCA's LiSTNR Original Podcasts team. He was at the ABC, responsible for a number of award-winning podcasts.
December 8, 2021:
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In Australia, podcasts from Network 10 will be exclusive on SCA's LiSTNR app from 2022, the companies have announced. Network 10, a television network owned by ViacomCBS, has a number of podcasts including The Professor and The Hack, which will no longer be available on other platforms.
December 1, 2021:
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In Australia, the winners of the Australian Commercian Radio Awards were announced, including a number of podcast winners. Best Original Podcast went to Zero Waste Baby with Veronica Milsom, produced by SCA's LiSTNR.
September 13, 2021:
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The Australian Podcast Awards has announced new partners and their judging lineup. Acast is the headline partner and LiSTNR is gold partner. (Podnews is also a partner.)
August 11, 2021:
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After we perplexingly mentioned June's Australian Podcast Ranker yesterday (sorry for the confusion), today sees the release of July's Australian Podcast Ranker. LiSTNR's Hamish & Andy is the new #1.
August 2, 2021:
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Send One Guitar round a country's best singer-songwriters. Ask each to write a new song: then perform it on a podcast. That's the concept of a new show that launches today, co-produced by the Mushroom Group: it's exclusive on the LiSTNR app for the next month, then available to all.
July 7, 2021:
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In Australia, podcast and radio app LiSTNR, owned by SCA, has invested in SourseAI, an artificial intelligence technology company, to power content recommendations.
June 17, 2021:
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In Australia, SCA has partnered with the BBC to add full shows to their LiSTNR app. Many shows contain music, and are available in the BBC Sounds app (but not as podcasts).
June 9, 2021:
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LiSTNR, from Australian broadcaster SCA, claims 2.7 million listeners to its premium original podcasts, and an 18% increase year-on-year. The LiSTNR brand was launched in February, combining their radio apps with the former PodcastOne podcast platform.
March 10, 2021:
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Sonnant, an Australian AI company focused on spoken word discovery in audio, has completed a $750,000 (US $575,000) seed round. Investors include SCA, the Australian broadcaster, who will use it in their new LiSTNR app.
February 18, 2021:
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In Australia, SCA's PodcastOne Australia has been rebranded to LiSTNR. The new LiSTNR app only contains podcasts and radio from SCA, but "a selection of premium PodcastOne US titles will also be available". The company launched PodcastOne Australia in September 2017.
June 2, 2020:
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Listnr makes a podcast in over 30 languages without recording anything - it uses speech synthesis, "synthesized by our Deep Learning Engine".