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The winners of the iHeart podcast awards the latest from podnews.net with

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co-host, podcast analytics and audience insights the iHeart podcast awards are

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taken over Austin Texas. It's the 2024 iHeart podcast awards presented by the

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Hartford live at South by Southwest. I am here to present the podcast of the

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year. Here we go. I'm nervous. It has nothing to do with me. And the iHeart

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podcast award goes to New Heights. Listen, this is an incredible honor,

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especially for two jabronis like us. To receive an award like this is beyond

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humbling. The iHeart podcast awards took place at South by Southwest in Austin,

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Texas. Podcast of the year went to New Heights. iHeart won seven of the 30

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awards, including the international winner from iHeart podcast Australia.

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Sirius XM's simple cast hosted nine of the winners. iHeart's omnistudio hosted eight.

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We've a full list of the winners and a video of the event in our show notes and

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our newsletter at podnews.net. The top shows in the UK for quarter four 23 were

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announced by Edison Research. The data from Edison podcast metrics UK says that

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the BBC has no shows in the top 10 and there's only one US show in the top 10

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too. A cast hosts the most shows in the list. Rooster Teeth is to close. The

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company's Roost podcast network will continue to operate while owner's Warner

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Brothers Discovery finds a buyer. It has 150 full-time employees.

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Blueberry's statistics for this month has added a new category showing places

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with the largest growth of listening in February. South Korea seems to be having

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a moment with a growth of 700% though the Pope's getting his fair share of

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podcasts too with a 524% growth from listeners in the Vatican City.

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It spotifies fifth year in India, the country with the biggest population on

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earth. Last year four of the top 10 podcasts on Spotify in India were in

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the mythology and spirituality genre. In Australia people listen to podcasts for

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as long each week as they listen to FM radio. That's according to ACMA, the

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Australian media regulator, in their new report How We Watch and Listen to Content.

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The weekly radio audience has declined over the last six years

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by 25 to 33%. Lipsin has added support for podcast transcripts. Users can upload a

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transcript in SRT or VTT format and if you need one making, Lipsin's competitor

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Spreaker offers a website and desktop app offering free podcast transcription for

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everyone. Embedded players by Podverse, Podfriend and JustCast are being excluded

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from OP3 stats after downloading audio when the page is loaded rather than when

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the listener presses play and after audio announced it was to purchase the

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Radio FM app on February the 27th, detailed why it wanted to buy it on

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February the 29th and how it fit into its overall M&A user acquisition strategy

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on March the 4th. It's decided not to purchase Radio FM after all.

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Audio had announced it was building a feature that skips ads in podcasts

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scheduled to launch in mid-January in the company's feta app.

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That feature hasn't yet launched either. In People News, Amazon Music has made

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Megan Bradshaw the head of podcasts Europe, Australia and New Zealand

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and Anna Karina-Quaroff is head of podcasts for North America,

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Latam and Spain. And in podcast news from Airwave, this day in history does what

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you might expect. Today it looks at the discovery of oil in Alaska on this day

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in 1968. It's from the History Channel and we thank Airwave for their support

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this month. And Choiceology with Katie Milgman has

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returned for a new season. The podcast launched in 2018 and has been

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tackling how we make decisions ever since. The show starts with an episode that

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uncovers why we're more likely to believe things the more they are

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repeated. And with election season well underway in

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much of the world, it's a worthwhile listen too.

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It's from Pacific Content. Talking about believing things, the more they're

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repeated, podnews.net/support, podnews.net/support,

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podnews.net/support. Trailers for selected shows are in our podcast

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Cohost. Understand listeners' social media habits,

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interests and industry with Cohost. No matter your hosting set up, find a link

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