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So, now it's The Weekly Show! The latest from podnews.net with Supporting Cast: where your

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brand comes first.

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Jon Stewart is to launch a new podcast, The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, next month.

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The show from MTV Entertainment Studios will be produced by Paramount Audio and Busboy

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Productions. Digiday covered the IAB's annual Podcast Upfront - we link to that today from our

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show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.

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The day took place yesterday in New York City. Audacy released its Q1/24

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financial results. The company which didn't hold an earnings call didn't release podcast data either.

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Headliner has added free captioning for full-length episodes. You've three weeks to enter the

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Independent Podcast Awards which close at the end of the month.

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The awards are in London in October.

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Do you want a big guest for your podcast?

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TYX Studios has Jordan Schwarzenberger, the manager of YouTube powerhouse The Sidemen

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and you could get the opportunity to interview him in the pop-up studio at The Podcast Show

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in London later this month.

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Storytel, a Swedish audiobook and publishing company is to add six thousand Swedish language

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podcasts to its service.

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Speak Up AI, a tool that takes textual articles and produces podcasts with your cloned voice,

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has raised half a million dollars, it's based in Redmond in the US and... "the most powerful

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iPad ever is also the thinnest"

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The most criticised iPad ad ever as well, Apple has apologised for its Crush ad. The

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company, which is traditionally the first choice for creatives including many podcasters, said

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that it missed the mark with the video, which showed creative symbols like a piano, a metronome

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and tins of paint being crushed by a hydraulic press.

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However, the ad, which is a copy of a 15-year-old TV spot for an LG Android phone, still remains

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on Tim Cook's Twitter account; and still remains on YouTube where Apple has just turned the

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comments off. In People News, Julie McNamara is reported to be leaving Spotify, she's currently Head

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of Studios, she joined in September 2021.

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And in podcast news, the Mi3 Audio Edition this week focuses on LiSTNR's tech stack

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and features an interview with Kim Loesby and Luke Minto.

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LiSTNR is the radio music and podcast app from Australian broadcaster SCA.

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Inheriting is new from NPR and launches on May the 23rd, it's a journey through the lives

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of seven families reckoning with major moments in Asian American and Pacific Islander history.

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The podcast is from LAist Studios and hosted by Emily Kwong.

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She will keynote at Podcast Day Asia, powered by Podnews, in Malaysia in September.

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A new BBC podcast, Intrigue to Catch a Scorpion, has traced a people smuggler back to Iraq.

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Bajan Majeed, nicknamed Scorpion, admits to smuggling thousands of migrants across the

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English Channel in small boats and lorries.

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"Simply takin' a walk" podcast has been accepted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame library

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and archives, and Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

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was announced yesterday from SiriusXM, the podcast will see Ted and Woody reconnect 30

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years after the end of their acclaimed sitcom Cheers, joined by a plethora of exciting guests.

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It launches on June 12th, there's a trailer out now, which you can find in the New Podcast

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Trailers podcast along with many of the other trailers that we mentioned here.

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And this podcast is sponsored by Supporting Cast.

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