Jon Ronson returns - for some

• Journalist and filmmaker Jon Ronson is back with a new show, Things Fell Apart. It features strange, unexpected human stories from the culture wars, and has a strange, unexpected distribution strategy: if you’re in the UK, you’ll hear it free on BBC Sounds (or on BBC Radio 4, Tuesdays at 9am) . If you’re in the US or Canada and using an Apple device, it’s available on BBC Podcasts Premium on Apple Podcasts, and if you’re on Android or elsewhere, you’re out of luck.

• Acast released its Q3/21 results. Revenue was up 89% year-on-year, to SEK 265.1m (US $30.8m). Listens increased to 891m; the company estimated that the Apple Podcasts download bug cost them 53m lost listens (5.9%). However, the company made a net loss of $4.6m in the quarter (up 15% year-on-year). The results are, of course, available as a podcast.

• Audacy reported their financial results for Q3/21. The company, which owns Cadence13, Pineapple Street Studios and Podcorn, said in an investor call that it made around $16m in revenue from podcasting - 4.8% of the total company’s income.

  
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• Futuri has released a major update to its POST radio-to-podcasting system, which has recently been granted a US patent. (The patent is US11109075, granted on Aug 31).

• Working on fiction podcasts? Why not read seven podcast scripts for inspiration, and consider entering the Shore Scripts 2021 Podcast Contest, which offers $5,000 for a pilot episode of the fiction podcast you’ve always wanted to make. The early deadline is Nov 16.

• Data: The Brazilian Podcaster Association has released a survey of podcast creators. 44% host on Anchor; 65% don’t monetise their shows in any way.

• Stitcher has signed an “exclusive national distribution deal” with US public radio station NHPR. NHPR is an NPR member station, and is the first public radio station to do a deal with Stitcher. Stitcher competes with NPR’s National Public Media for ad revenue, as we understand it.

• Clubhouse launched Replays - recording for Clubhouse rooms. You can download the audio: it appears to be a 56kbps stereo AAC file, at 48kHz samplerate.

• Podchaser has added a feature for Podchaser Pro users that allow them to find podcasts that accept guests. The service now has more than 13,000,000 podcast credits in its system, it’s announced.

  
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• The Vancouver Podcast Festival is back: an online event on Nov 20. Tickets are CA$25. Also, The Dubai PodFest is on Nov 14, in Dubai World Trade Centre.

Moves and hires - with Pod People

• A wild CRO has appeared: Brian Benedik is the new Chief Revenue Officer at Audacy. He joins from Niantic (the people who make Pokémon Go) and Spotify.

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Tips and tricks

• 7 ways to repurpose your podcast content, from Podchaser, highlights audiograms, transcripts and newsletters.

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Audacy’s Cadence13 has signed a contract extension with author and activist Glennon Doyle for We Can Do Hard Things. The show is twice-weekly.

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