New global podcasting conference announced

• A new global podcasting conference has been announced. Podcast Day 24 will be on June 7, and will be hosted in Sydney, London and North America. There’s a full interview with organiser Matt Deegan in Podland this week.

  
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• The most used podcast platform in Spain is Spotify, with a 48.2% share, according to data from marketing companies SIEM and Prodigioso Volcán.

• The New York Times’s Audio department is to be “more fully integrated” into the newsroom, according to a memo tweeted by Cliff Levy, who’ll be assisting with the process. While Caliphate isn’t mentioned by name, the memo also describes 'new procedures to vet ambitious audio series’.

• The British Podcast Awards has announced new categories, including a “Best Lockdown Podcast”. You’ll be able to enter from Feb 22; more than 11,000 people watched their live ceremony last year.

  
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• The 16th Annual Podcast Awards have added a few new categories: fiction, history, leisure and true crime. The awards will also be honouring the five most influential podcasters for podcasters, and the five most influential podcasters for listeners. Registration opens on Monday.

• Mamamia has won gold in the Native Ad Awards for their kids podcast That’s Incredible for Subaru.

• PodMatch now has over 4,000 members. It’s one of the platforms which promises match podcasts with guests.

• FastCompany suggests all DVD commentary tracks should be available as podcasts.

  
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• Anchor’s new logo is meant to represent audio as well as podcast growth, their Head of Marketing Anna Sian has told us. Hear the full interview next week in Podland.

• Libsyn’s senior management presented at an investor conference. President & COO Laurie Syms and CFO Richard Heyse highlighted that their strategy is to grow the company organically, rather than take part in corporate acquisitions.

• Spotify senior management trained NYU students in a three-week course.

• If you don’t cast, you’re last, claims marketing website The Drum, looking at podcasting’s gold rush, and interviewing a number of the bigger commercial names.

• Eric George, formerly of The Australian, has joined the Australian ABC as Podcast Lead, ABC Audio News and Current Affairs. He started this week.

  • The Editor’s Choice program on ABC Radio this weekend features Podnews’s Editor answering the question Are there too many podcasts out there?

• Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Guliani, has been suspended from YouTube’s monetisation program after repeatedly sharing election misinformation.

  
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