Alitu launches a podcast host

• Podcast production tool Alitu is now also a podcast host. Hosting is free for the first 1,000 downloads a month.

• Octave, a joint venture between Bauer Media and News UK, has launched podcast ad sales for over 1,000 shows and 100 million impressions.

• Production company Chalk + Blade has a new website.

• Almost three-quarters of podcast listeners in Poland in 2022 used YouTube to listen. Spotify was used by two in 10 respondents.

• Fun fact: in the US since Sep 22, Joe Rogan has only been #1 in Spotify for three days. Rogan’s deal with Spotify expires at the end of 2023.

• Three shows have joined Patreon to offer listeners exclusive content - Reasonably Shady featuring two of the stars from Real Housewives of Potomac, Gizelle Bryant and Robyn Dixon; Hawk vs Wolf, with radio personality Jason Ellis and professional skateboarder Tony Hawk; and Girls Next Level, with Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt, the stars of the E! network’s iconic reality show The Girls Next Door.

• AdLarge will be kicking off the “Future is Female” track at Advertising Week next Monday.

Moves and hires

• Sarah McVeigh is joining Schwartz Media as head of its audio division. She joins from Gimlet and the ABC in Australia.
• Millie Webber has been appointed as Head of Digital for Spirit Studios in Brighton. It’s the latest in a set of hires for the company.

Podcast News - with Lemonada Media

From Lemonada Media: Add to Cart is hosted by Kulap Vilaysack and SuChin Pak. From beauty products and health trends to celebrities and philosophies, they dig into anything we buy into and what it says about who we are.

Todd Cochrane’s Geek News Central Podcast turns 18 years old this week. The first episode of the show was recorded on Oct 9 2004 in a hotel room in Waco TX. It was one of the first shows to launch using the word “podcast”, and is up to episode 1,628.

The Europeans celebrates its fifth anniversary next month. Co-hosts Katy Lee (British, lives in Paris) and Dominic Kraemer (British, lives in Amsterdam) will be marking the milestone with interviews with major European leaders.

How much did you know about NBA at the age of 15? Sloane Knows is hosted by Sloane Weinstein, a teenage NBA fan who knows the game inside and out and is now interviewing some of the biggest names from the famous franchise’s past and present to jog their memories. Produced by Jam Street Media, it’s a biweekly show for all sports lovers.

Blood & Gold is a new audio fiction podcast from Realm, which gets a general release on Thursday. The show stars Richard Cabral, and is the story of how Joaquin Murrieta becomes a legend in 19th-century California.

Podcast ads in the wild

Spotted on the back of a number 29 bus in London by Adam Bowie, this ad for the Say What! Podcast Big Pappa J, a show hosted on Anchor. This ad cost around £750 (US $827) for a month.