Are you bigger than a Netflix show?
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Netflix published consumption data for more than 18,000 shows for Jan-June 2023. We pulled the data in, and wondered how podcasts compare. So to compare your podcast to a Netflix show, we have written a quick comparison tool. You might be surprised at how big you are.
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What does the outlook for podcasting in 2024 look like? Writing for Podnews today, we have a historical view from Marshall Poe, the historian and editor behind the New Books Network. He offers lessons from the past: and three things to make your podcast a success.
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Tink Media has launched Podcast Group Therapy, a paid-for group session on marketing your show. The idea is to make podcast marketing accessible to all.
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Download hours for Paramount Audio were up by 8% this year, writes EVP of Podcasting and Audio at Paramount, Steve Raizes, looking back at the company’s success.
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Mother Jones and The Center for Investigative Reporting are to merge. The Center for Investigative Reporting produces Reveal with PRX, which averages 825,000 downloads per month. The merger should create more opportunities for the podcast.
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Listening app Podfans has rebranded to TrueFans. Founder and CEO Sam Sethi said on the Podnews Weekly Review podcast last week: “We do more than just straight podcasts. We were obviously looking at music. We’re looking at books, video, and so, talking to several music artists, they said Podfans doesn’t really say music to us and it’s a bit narrow focused.”
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Music Freediverse is a new place for musicians to post their songs as an RSS feed, using PeerTube.
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If you’re a website for podcasting without an RSS feed, are you really a website for podcasting? On desktop, the Podnews website now proudly displays RSS feeds in the header - for news, events, jobs, articles, press releases and more. Like, subscribe, follow, etc.
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Podnews is on Mastodon (and other places), and this holiday period, we’d like to encourage you to follow us there (and the hashtag
#podcasting
perhaps, too). Megalodon works great for Android; we’re told Mammoth is a good app for iPhone. As of today, we’re posting on X thirty minutes late, as part of the x-last strategy.
Podcast News
Companies mentioned above:
Amazon
Podcast data for Dec 18
#1 in Apple Podcasts
Mortal Sin (NBC News)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast (Mark Manson)
#1 in Spotify
The Joe Rogan Experience (Joe Rogan)
What Now? with Trevor Noah (Spotify Studios)
Over the last week, 194,809 podcasts published at least one new episode (up 2.6%). source