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This is from Europe on paid podcast subscriptions from Singapore, the latest from podnews.net

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with co-host, podcast analytics and audience insights.

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Sesame, a monetization tool for publishers, has released a case study showing how its

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tool has partially pay walled podcasts of Kvartal, the Swedish magazine and other clients

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in the UK and Italy.

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As much to learn, buying a whole season in advance seems to work well, conversion rate

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was surprisingly over 10% of podcast subscribers and 70% of users wanted to pay with SWISH,

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a mobile payment system popular in Sweden, rather than using card payments, much more

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in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net.

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The Australian podcast ranker for February was released by the CRA and Triton Digital.

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Listener is number one for sales representation, ARN's IR Podcast Network Australia is number

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one publisher in terms of monthly listeners, the ABC is number one in terms of total downloads.

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Congratulations everybody, but year on year downloads for Listener's Network are down

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9% and for ARN's iHeart down 29%, Australia hasn't been immune to Apple's iOS 17 changes.

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Podcast website creation tool podcast page has added an AI-powered writing assistant,

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it can be used for headlines, titles or full blog posts.

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If you're an indie podcaster in Aotearoa and want help with representation and distribution,

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the New Zealand podcast on its final session is about how to approach New Zealand's two

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big networks Rover and iHeart Radio, there are 14 speakers this year, the event is in

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Auckland on May the 11th. The back end powering the Good Pods podcast app is going to have a big upgrade shortly

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according to the company, it's not a public facing change but will pave the way for new

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features. Realm signed an ad sales partnership with Kids and Family Podcast Story Pirates and

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Tenderfoot TV announced a new slate after the success of his Tenderfoot podcast To Live

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and Die in LA, Neil Strauss will launch Russian Sexpionage series to die for, produced in

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partnership with iHeart podcasts on March the 26th.

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In People News, Jonathan Aspinwall, who's been running BBC News podcasts, is to become

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the executive editor of Newsnight, the broadcaster's analysis news TV show, no use yet on his

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replacement as executive producer of BBC News podcasts.

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And in podcast news, if the Oscars have got you all excited about the creative process

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and creators across all kinds of industries, then icons could be the show for you.

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The show offers insightful discussions and reflections on the creative minds behind some

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of the most influential works in cinema.

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Buzzcast this week takes a look at the acquired podcast, a podcast they say is unconventional

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in that it takes time doing deep research and seeing great success from doing so.

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And newsworthy, we think that in a heavily contested category, heinous and Asian true

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crime podcast has been nominated for the ambiz.

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The show is made by OneUp Media and Media Corp here in Singapore and is the only production

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made outside of the US to have secured a nomination in the category.

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Trailers for selected shows are in our podcast called New Podcast Trailers and we're sponsored

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by Cohost. Understand listeners' social media habits, interests and employment with Cohost, no matter

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your hosting setup. There's a link in the show notes and that's the latest from our newsletter to read all

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the stories and subscribe, we're at podnews.net.

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