Spotify loses Trevor Noah to SiriusXM

• Spotify has lost one of its big shows. What Now? with Trevor Noah will become a SiriusXM podcast from July 1. The show, announced two years ago, was the first from Spotify not to be an exclusive, and heralded a new strategy for all the company’s podcasts. Noah’s $4mn deal was highlighted as “more equitable” for Spotify than previous content deals for the company. What Now? this week is an interview with Jon Stewart.

• The winners of the 2025 Women Podcasters Awards were announced. You can watch a slickly-edited video of the whole event (our Editor appears about seven minutes in). The event returns in November.

• JAR Audio has named Libby Liburd’s MUVVAHOOD as the winner of its 2025 Emerging Women in Podcasting Pilot Competition. The UK-based writer and performer takes a hard look at the stigma surrounding single mothers. “Proud single mum with a story to tell — what’s not to like?” said JAR Audio’s Chief Creative Officer, Jen Moss.

• Podscribe released its June 2025 Industry Ranker. It says Crime Junkie is the #1 show, reaching 8.3mn people (Joe Rogan is at #5); Spotify is the number one publisher with almost twice the audience of iHeartMedia’s podcasts; and the top advertiser is BetterHelp.

• Q1/25 saw a record high amount of household spending on audio media in Sweden, says Nordic analysts Mediavision. The average monthly spend on music, audiobooks and podcasts reached 170 SEK (US $18) per household, a figure that has grown 20% year-on-year.

• The Pew Research Center has released an interactive tool that examines trust/distrust and use of “thirty major news sources”. The most trusted news brand in the US is the BBC, with PBS and NPR in the top four. Among the major news sources are the Tucker Carlson Network, The Daily Wire, and The Joe Rogan Experience.

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• How do the podcast charts work? Why are YouTube’s podcast charts so different to Spotify’s - and why are both of them so different to Apple’s?

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Kids bedtime story and meditation podcast Koala Moon has just passed 50 million lifetime listens. The show, which offers calming bedtime stories and meditations for kids, now serves over 200,000 regular listeners across 100+ countries and sees 1.8M long-form views per month on YouTube - primarily from connected TVs. It’s produced by wellness brand Sleepiest.

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In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, we learn all about new research into kids podcasting - with Molly Bloom from Brains On telling us about a new study that focuses on how families listen to kids podcasts in the car, and the conversations that follow. Sam and James also talk about Spotify’s embrace of Podcasting 2.0, and Apple’s recent announcements.

The Mob Museum, the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, has launched the second season of their original podcast Inside the Life, hosted by former elite undercover agents Giovanni Rocco and Dutch McAlpin. The fifth episode of Season Two features Pete Charette, a former DEA agent who takes listeners deep inside the notorious French Connection — the global heroin pipeline that stretched from Europe to the streets of America.

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