Darknet Diaries sees success with Apple Podcasts paid subscriptions

• Darknet Diaries has achieved 670 paid Apple Podcasts subscribers in just 45 days, according to its creator Jack Rhysider. He also says he has yet to promote it: all discovery is happening through Apple’s app. After Apple’s 30% cut, he’s earning $2,338 per month.

• Podcast listeners are young, upscale and educated, and described by Westwood One’s Pierre Bouvard as “exceptionally attractive”. The data is from Edison Research and Nielsen.

• The “#1 sports podcast in America”, The Fantasy Footballers, has announced a new show on Spotify Greenroom. The weekly show will be on Wednesdays at 6pm ET/3pm PT.

  • The show had announced a switch to Audioboom in January, but appears to be still hosted at Libsyn.

• Apple Music is to launch a classical music app next year. The company has acquired Primephonic, a classical music service.

• Google Podcasts to get a fresh new UI, with a new 'library’ tab, and a method to mark an episode as played from the home screen. The design is slowly rolling out.

• Congratulations to The Podcast Host, which has now been writing about podcasting for ten years. It has an overview of the most popular posts.

• Memberful has integrated with Spotify for private podcasts.

• Kids and family scripted podcast company Wonkybot is to expand into young adult and adult-skewing shows in Q3/21, after a promising start with its own Apple Podcasts Subscriptions channel.

• Amber Hall has joined Vox Media as Deputy Editorial Director, Talk Podcasts.

  
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• In the Netherlands, the NPO - the public broadcaster - is to produce a podcast event with more than twenty shows being recorded. The NPO Podcast Event will be in Utrecht on Oct 10.

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