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• Headliner has added a free transcription service into Make, the company’s audiogram and video tool. Once you log in, look for the big pink transcribe button. The product, called Eddy, also allows you to edit a podcast as if it’s a word document. (We were given a complimentary subscription to Headliner to publish the Podnews Weekly Review on YouTube.)

• Lemonada Media has signed The Sarah Silverman Podcast to its lineup. The show was on Kast Media, which stands accused of not paying its creators.

• The Australian Podcast Awards shared the current top 20 for the listener’s choice vote. There’s still time to vote for your favourite.

• Radiotopia from PRX announced its new Q3/23 slate.

• Persephonica is behind another new podcast, announced today by The News Movement. The show launches in early October, and will be a twelve-part series that will tackle the issues that are cutting through for a Gen Z audience, hosted by Mary Mandefield.

• Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions has launched a scripted podcast series Say More with Dr? Sheila as part of a new division, Paper Kite Podcasts. It’s a co-production with Audacy.

• Podcast advertising planning company Magellan AI launched a new feature: 'reports on demand’.

• TPX has published five reasons why podcasts are a perfect fit for holiday ad campaigns. It points out that the Hollywood strike and the blackout of Canadian news on Facebook and Instagram is making it even harder for advertisers to reach consumers.

• The schedule for the Paris Podcast Festival is now online. The event is Oct 13-14. Meanwhile, Spotify held Festival EQUAL in Buenos Aires last week, “to celebrate the creativity and talent that women bring to the music and podcast scenes”.

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• Zak Levitt has joined Ballen Studios as Head of Production. He was Executive Vice President of Production at Audacy’s Cadence13.

Podcast News - with Airwave

From the Airwave Podcast Network: Data Over Dogma isn’t your pastor’s Bible podcast. This is a deep interrogation of the book, and we’re bringing receipts. Bible scholar Dr. Dan McClellan and atheist podcaster Dan Beecher team up to discover what the Bible actually says, what it decidedly doesn’t say (even if everyone thinks it does), and explore the history of the most popular book of all time.

Supply chain بالعربي is claimed to be the first Arabic-language podcast for procurement and supply chain professionals in MENA. The press release tells us why it’s important: podcasts using the Arabic language are less than 0.4% of the global podcast numbers, serving Arabic speakers who represent 4% of the global population.

In the UK, The Digital Her Podcast is new today, as part of a Greater Manchester-wide initiative that encourages women into the tech industry. It brings together women from the 350-strong Digital Her community to have a series of inspiring conversations about what the tech industry has to offer, what opportunities are available, as well as topics that affect many people such as understanding Imposter Syndrome or moving into leadership roles.

SCREAMING CREATIVITY is a new video podcast from WPP - the world’s largest marketing and communications company, hosted by WPP Chief Creative Officer Rob Reilly. It’s all about what it means to be creative; and who determines what creativity is?

KJZZ’s Kathy Ritchie likes to talk about things that make most people uncomfortable. KJZZ’s Period, The End is an educational series about menopause, a chapter of life that can be gut wrenching, exhausting and just plain confusing. It launched yesterday.

It’s almost Halloween already, it would seem: Mina and Lucy’s Guide to Slaying Dracula launches today from Gen-Z Media, with Bradley Whitford as the legendary vampire hunter, Professor Van Helsing. It’s a 20-episode comedy adventure, which wraps up on the lead-up to Halloween itself.