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100 ,000. From South

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Wales, the latest from PodNews .net

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with Squadcast. Record remotely

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in studio quality. Spotify

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now has more than 100 ,000

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video podcasts on its platform

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according to Tube Filter. They claim,

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as we covered on November 9th, that video

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is more popular in the evenings, while

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audio is used more during the day.

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Spotify faces significant competition

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for video podcasts as

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YouTube music ramps up its podcast

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aspirations. Americans

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spend over four hours a day with

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audio, says data from Edison Research.

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The total time has remained consistent over

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the last nine years. The BBC

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published its most popular podcast

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of 2023 by Total

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Plays in BBC Sounds, the corporation's

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app. Podcast listening on BBC

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Sound saw an increase of 34

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% year on year. Charles

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Basile has been hired as the BBC's

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first chief brand officer. He's

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been working for Absolute Vodka since 2019,

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but he's got his own podcast bridging

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the gap. In Spain, El

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País has published its list of the

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top podcasts of 2023, and

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in the UK, the BPI released data

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on physical music sales in 2023.

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5 .9 million vinyl records

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were sold, that's up 11%, nearly

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11 million CDs, and

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100 ,000 cassettes. Four

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-fifths of all recorded music consumption

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is done via streaming, though. Taylor Swift's

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1989, Taylor's version was

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the best seller on vinyl. And

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in podcast news, Red Bull's mindset win

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is helping you kickstart your New Year's resolutions

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with sports psychologist York

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Peter Kloppel equipping you with

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the tools to make great resolutions and

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to stick with them. Ongoing

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history of new music has celebrated its

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1 ,000th episode since its debut

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in January 1993. Each

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week, the Canadian show looks at things from

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the Outrock universe to hip -hop,

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from artist profiles to various thematic

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explorations it's produced and presented

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by Alan Cross. And the

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media round table is a prediction special this

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week with Hot Pod's Ariel Shapiro, Sky

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Pillsbury from The Squeeze, and me

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looking forward to 2024. Come

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for the hot take on YouTube, stay for

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the hot take on Spotify. Trailers

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for selected shows are in our new podcast trailers

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podcast. Find that wherever you get your podcasts.

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