The HISTORY Channel marquee original podcast, HISTORY This Week, returns for a fact-filled fifth season on September 16th. Released weekly, each episode gives listeners insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the world we live in today. What secret meetings helped Richard Nixon win the 1968 presidential election? What is Pompeii still teaching […]
Audible, a provider of spoken word entertainment, has announced a new ten-part podcast presented by British Nigerian journalist Femi Oke, which follows the ground-breaking global story uncovering how an ancient Nigerian deity successfully lured modern women into sex slavery. CURSED is the second Audible Original created and produced by All3Media production company RAW, the producers […]
NFL stars and brothers, Travis and Jason Kelce. have signed a podcast deal with Amazon, reportedly worth $100 million (€90m). The three-year deal gives Wondery, an Amazon partner company, exclusive multimedia rights to the brothers’ popular New Heights podcast. The siblings launched the podcast in 2022, which sees the pair interviewing celebrity guests and discussing […]
Australian children’s entertainers, TheWiggles, have announced the launch of their new podcast. Wiggle Talk: A Podcast for Parents serves as a parent’s ticket to behind–the–scenes access to the Wiggles family as they delve into expert parenting tips and share personal stories, presented by the friendly voices of Red Wiggle Simon Pryce and Purple Wiggle Lachy […]
BBC Sounds has launched Tortoise Investigates, a new feed which will become the home of three new investigative podcast series from Tortoise Media. The boxsets will be released consecutively on BBC Sounds in the coming weeks. Each boxset series offers a complex story which aim to keep listeners guessing, including a Satanic hoax, a malicious […]
History Hit, the SVoD, content platform, has announced a rebrand and refresh of its award-winning flagship podcast, Dan Snow’s History Hit. With over 3 million listens each month, the refreshed podcast aims to deepen its engagement with its loyal subscribers and attract new audiences with an enhanced listener experience. Starting with immediate effect, Dan Snow’s […]
Veritonic, the audio research and analytics platform, has announced that Hawk (an Azerion company), a European player in digital omnichannel advertising, has selected Veritonic’s Audio Attribution solution to enable users of their platform to track and measure the performance of their audio, podcast and CTV ads. Hawk will use Veritonic’s attribution solution to enable its […]
BBC Sounds’ Audio lab returns for its third incarnation. The project has been designed to help support up-and-coming audio creatives, with the aim of advancing their creative development through building confidence and connection whilst enhancing their writing, recording, performance and promotional skills. Former alumni have seen great success, with an ARIA Gold award for Best […]
North American pay-radio operator, SiriusXM, is suffering a loss of subscribers which has driven its share price into negative territory. The subscriber loss for its quarter ending June 30th totalled around 173,000 and made up of 100,000 so-called ‘self-pay’ (conventional) subscribers, and 73,000 promotional subscriptions. These were considered major losses but when compared with the […]
Goalhanger, the independent UK podcast company, has announced a record level of downloads and views over a busy May to July period, led by a worldwide boost in interest across shows such as The Rest Is Politics and The Rest Is Football. From May 22nd to July 5th, The Rest Is Politics and its companion […]