New Heights gets Taylor Swift as guest

• Finally! Wondery show New Heights will finally get Taylor Swift as a special guest in tomorrow’s episode - it’s Taylor’s first interview since 2023. Is it a declaration of love? Or is it also an opportunity to promote a new album?

• iHeartMedia released its Q2/25 financial results. Podcast revenue was up 28% year-on-year to $134mn. Its traditional radio business fell 7%. Podcasting now accounts for 14.3% of the company’s revenue.

• What actually drove the decision to shut down Pineapple Street Studios earlier this year? Audacy’s Head of Podcasts Leah Reis-Dennis is the guest in the latest episode of Podcast Perspectives from The Podglomerate.

• Vox Media announced a forthcoming show with journalist and Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget. The show Solutions with Henry Blodget starts next Monday.

• Flightpath has been selected by the Gamut Podcast Network as a real-time inventory forecasting tool.

• Spotify is putting premium pricing up in almost every country except the US and Canada.

• While some podcasts might be shifting to video, the same’s happening the other way: 2WAY’s Morning Meeting is to be available as an audio podcast on major podcast platforms, the company has announced.

• The Projection Booth podcast this week discusses Shaun Michael Colón’s Age of Audio movie, which is a “whirlwind 82-minute tour through the origins, growth, and current state of podcasting.” Shaun Michael Colón and our Editor, James Cridland, are guests.

Tips and tricks - with Podcast Movement

• If you’re certain that people know how to use it, Spotify has “Spotify Codes”, which you can put on posters or stickers to help people listen. Here’s how they work, and how to make them.

Moves and hires

• Harrison Weinhold has joined Salem Media Group as “company consultant in the podcast space”. He was Head of Growth at Glenn Beck’s The Blaze.

• Lisa Coffey has joined iHeartMedia in the newly-created role of Chief Business Officer.

Podcast News - with Airwave

With Airwave: Motley Fool Money offers a long-term perspective on business news with The Motley Fool’s investment analysts. Today’s episode: Predicting the Next Rule Breaker Buyout

What happens when you’ve become one of the most-listened podcasts, but the case you were covering has finished? You turn Mushroom Case Daily into The Case Of, a podcast recapping trials, explaining legal processes, and unpacking the most interesting details of the cases behind the headlines.

Escaping Denver might sound like Podcast Movement in 2023 - but it’s also a hit adventure fiction podcast from Curiouscast, and it’s back for fifth and final season today. The show has even been adapted into a novel.

That Sinking Feeling: Adventures in ADHD and Ship Salvage releases a bonus episode today - the story of a nuclear submarine that sank just north San Francisco, and the ramifications of a son purposefully peeing on the floor of a grade school bathroom. Offering insight into parenting a neurodivergent kid, rather than a prescriptive set of ADHD guidelines, That Sinking Feeling has been downloaded almost 5,000 times.

Sheffield Wednesday and Morecambe don’t have much in common in terms of their football histories, but are both in dire financial trouble and face sanctions from football authorities. In the latest episode of The Northern Agenda, the political podcast about the North from the North [of England] speaks to Kieran Maguire (The Price of Football) about how two clubs were left teetering on the brink and what it tells us about modern football.

A special episode of How Do We Manage? is released today with the late doctor, scientist, broadcaster and author Dr. Stuart Farrimond. A few months before passing away peacefully in his sleep, at the age of only 43, he spoke about what it’s like to live with a life-limiting illness and what motivated him to push forward despite his cancer. Thanks to Dr. Farrimond’s wife, Grace, the episode is released today in order to continue his legacy.

Under the bright lights of Las Vegas, the Willamette Valley Jaguars stormed into The Basketball League’s Summer League with something to prove. After winning just two games in The Basketball League’s regular season, they arrived at Dula Gym hungry to rewrite the narrative. Facing nine other teams all chasing the same prize — a Summer League championship — each day of the tournament was a battle. In this special episode of Jags Beyond The Baseline, hear postgame interviews from every matchup, exclusive behind-the-scenes stories, and find out which new training camp invites could become breakout stars next season.

Set in the design department of a romance novel publisher, Torsos of Desire follows a nameless narrator who is looking for love and isn’t afraid to pursue whatever, and whoever, she wants — even if it means going on a wild goose chase full of baseball players, cover models, and feuding authors. A comedic novel told in 10 sections, narrated by the author, Nicole Beckley.

Hair What I’m Saying this season gets real about texturism and lengthism — the quiet biases that tell us which hair textures and lengths are “beautiful,” “professional,” or “acceptable.” From family comments before we even start school, to co-workers questioning if our hair “grew overnight,” to school and workplace rules that target Black hairstyles, these unspoken rules shape how we see ourselves. This show starts healing our relationship with our hair and ourselves. Because your hair was never the problem.