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Exclusive: We’ve the podcast winners for the 30th Annual Webby Awards. Podcast Company of the Year went to iHeart Media. Best New Podcast is Goalhanger’s The Rest Is Science. Good Hang with Amy Poehler won four awards, while The Jamie Kern Lima Show won five awards for an episode with Michelle Obama. We’ve a full list of the winners before anyone else.
Another streaming service is to get podcasts. Fox One has announced eight new podcast shows will be available on the platform, sourced from Fox News Media and Red Seat Ventures.
Is Alex Cooper’s podcast network feeling a little under the weather? In a paywalled article for Bloomberg, Ashley Carman tells stories of high employee turnover, alleges bad behaviour from CEO Matt Kaplan, and, cites Podscribe’s numbers to describe a failure of the Unwell Network to produce a hit other than Call Her Daddy.
BBC Studios, SiriusXM and 99% Invisible are working together on a major new series: A History of the United States in 100 Objects. The show will be hosted by Roman Mars, and will premier on May 19, within the 99% Invisible feed.
In Australia, podcasting business SHOUT Collective has been acquired by Rifle Agency, in a move to enhance Rifle’s capability to market across YouTube, audio and social.
Magellan AI released its list of top podcast spenders, movers and shakers for March. Quince is the biggest spender at $6.5mn, with Fast Growing Trees the fastest grower in podcast advertising, reaching to the sky spending $1.6mn last month.
Adobe Premier Pro now offers a new “on-device” speech-to-text transcription tool, which runs entirely on your laptop, so you can transcribe video and audio anywhere, without the audio leaving the device. The tool claims it can transcribe an hour of audio in less than a minute.

Airwave congratulates our Webby Award winners: Culture Kids won the judge’s award for Kids & Family, Shows - and a People’s Choice award for the best individual episode in Kids & Family for the episode Narwhals Are Real?! Dive Into the Arctic’s Coolest Secret!. Culture Kids is a podcast and nonprofit organization on a mission to make a multicultural mindset the default for the next generation - and is now a Webby Award winner - twice!

Using AI at Work has hit episode 100 with a milestone conversation on what it actually means to lead in the age of AI. Host Chris Daigle sits down with Chief Innovation Officer Evan J Schwartz to argue that the leaders asking “how do we cut costs with AI?” are asking the wrong question entirely.

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Crime Beat returns today for its eigth season - starting with a special three-part episode featuring the 1994 story of a rural Alberta murder, an international manhunt, and an unexpected twist.

In Full Fat Marketing, award-winning F&B brand strategist Leonora serves up bite-sized strategy for food, drink and hospitality brands tired of fluff, trends, and semi-skimmed advice that sounds clever but sells nothing. Expect sharp breakdowns of real brands, pricing, loyalty, positioning, and the uncomfortable truths most marketers would rather not tell you.

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Television presenter, singer and Loose Women star Coleen Nolan is launching a brand-new podcast, Nolans Uncensored, with two of her children, son Shane and daughter Ciara, filmed in her farmhouse home. Honest, funny and completely unfiltered, the three generations tackle love, family life, relationships, mental health and everything in between. It’s produced by Joy Peddlers Studios.

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The Sports History Network has welcomed back the Total Sports Recall podcast. Harv Aronson brings you an array of sports history topics recalling great moments and athletes from sports yesteryear. No sport is left alone with an emphasis on football and baseball: but expect reflections on past boxing, mixed martial arts, basketball, golf, and an occasional hockey memory.

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Light in the Battle: Autism, Single Motherhood and Trauma Recovery is ending its second season by recapping how trauma recovery makes you stronger in family court. While you don’t win in court by being right, or by feeling strongly about things, you can actually move the needle by becoming regulated, consistent, strategic, coachable, and impossible to trigger and bait.
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