Podcasters to gather in London for The Podcast Show

• Podcasting is converging at The Podcast Show in London, which starts tomorrow morning. (PODNEWS10 will still save on selected last-minute passes). The full speaker schedule and the app is now available. Our Editor, James Cridland, will be delivering the opening keynote at 9.20am in The Origin Theatre, with a look back at the last year and some exclusive data focusing on consumption in the UK and international markets.

  • Early pass registration is today 2pm-6pm by the way. Pop over today and avoid the queues!

• Magellan AI released its US top podcast spenders for April. The data also shows the fast movers.

• Podcast Radio is to launch on two Alpha Radio stations in Missouri.

• Tumble Media has launched consulting services for children’s podcasts.

• We covered it in early February, but the recording tools in Spotify for Podcasters are going away soon.

Moves and hires

• Gemma O’Brien and Lora Elliott have been promoted into the senior leadership team at Adelicious.

Tips and tricks - with Ausha Pro 🚀

• Ausha suggests: Gain insight into key metrics for evaluating branded podcasts

• Ausha suggests: Learn how to calculate your podcast’s ROI effectively

• How to create no-fluff content (We Edit Podcasts)

• Is a website important for podcasting? (Podbam)

Podcast News - with Airwave

With Airwave: All Creatures Podcast’s Chris Mortensen says: “Joining Airwave media has been seamless and such a joy. We have seen a big jump in our All Creatures’s podcast revenue and growth. The team handles so much for us that it has let us work on other aspects to grow our podcast."

The Rebooting Show features Big IP’s Scott Porch in this week’s show. The show focuses on sustainable media businesses, and the decisions that lead to them; it’s hosted by Brian Morrissey.

Primer is a new music podcast from Maximum Fun, launching today. The show explores a genre of music from outside the English-speaking world. We hear the stories behind the genre’s most important records, the lives of its artists, the cultural, linguistic and historical context of the songs and how that genre interacts with the rest of the world. The first episode is with American-Venezuelan singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart.

The TED AI Show is brand new today, and will feature TED Talks regarding AI and aims to be AI-optimistic, but AI-realistic as well. The podcast won’t just be broadcasts of TED Talks; it’ll also feature interviews with figures from all sides of the AI world, like OpenAI’s Helen Toner – the person who fired Sam Altman from the OpenAI board.

Wonder Media, the all-women indie podcast company, has released a new season of Wonder Media’s White Picket Fence. The season is unpacking the panic around falling marriage rates, laying out how marriage has been used as a tool in American history, and debunking the myths that say marriage is the solution to social turmoil.

A new spin-off series of This is History starts today, looking at The Iron King - a look at the murderous regime of France’s famously beautiful king, Philip the Fair. It’s hosted by Danièle Cybulskie.