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Spend $1 on podcast advertising, and get back $4.90 in increased sales. So says media agency OMD and podcast company Acast, after a study in Sweden of more than $192mn of adspend. At 4.9%, podcast advertising gives the highest long-term return on ad spend (ROAS) of any media tested, including ads on social media and radio, according to the study with OMD’s analytics division Annalect.
Is your work in Descript being used to train generative AI tools – and could it leak out in other forms? Writing in The Squeeze, Skye Pillsbury notes that a major investor in Descript is OpenAI, a company which has been keen to grab as much training data for its tools as possible. Does that include your content in Descript – even the stuff that doesn’t make it to your final podcast? The company says no, but is there more to the story?
Blubrry has introduced AI-generated podcast episode art for its customers. The tool can automatically generate images, including show titles and host names.
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Shows from open-source podcast network Changelog Media are now with BackBeat Media for sponsorship representation.
Is $100,000 the bare minimum for a professionally produced audio documentary? Matt Medeiros is raising the money for a documentary about radio.

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Zara Curtis has been named Chief Content Officer at Mamamia. She joins with 20 years experience across content, creative and marketing teams.

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Mac Geek Gab’s Dave Hamilton, who has been podcasting for twenty years, will be speaking at Podcast Movement 2024. (Code PODNEWS saves on passes).

As the General Election draws closer in the UK, Politics Uncensored is hosted by the political commentator, former parliamentary candidate and the national chair of the Labour Muslim Network, Ali Milani. The show is currently carried live on FUBAR Radio, and made available as a podcast.

The Guiding Voice says it’s the world’s only quadri-lingual podcast (English, Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada); and today it posts its 500th episode. The show delivers insightful content across a wide spectrum, including entrepreneurship, coaching, contemporary technologies, and stories of unsung heroes.

Tactful Pettiness with Cody Rigsby and Andrew Chappelle has been launched today by PodcastOne. They’ll traverse the pop culture world, chat with their celebrity friends, dish out relationship advice and show you how to accept yourself without taking life too seriously.

New from Immigrantly Media, Nationly is looking at the stories behind political issues that really matter to minority communities—immigrants and communities of color in the US during election year. The most recent episode looks at the Latino vote.

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PODCAST: Reaction From Truagh Clonlara After Clare Camogie Final Win – Clare FM

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Clare FM’s Derrick Lynch speaks with members of the 2023 Clare Senior Camogie Champions Truagh-Clonlara, including Michelle Caulfield, Ryan Morris, Aine O’Loughlin & Sinead Hogg.

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Google November Core Update: 6 Insights From Millions of Queries – Search Engine Journal

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Real-time data from millions of search queries reveals how the Google Update is impacting AI Overviews and organic search
Enterprise SEO platform BrightEdge is actively monitoring millions of keyword search results, detecting real-time trends in Google’s AI Overview and organic search tied to the ongoing November 2024 Core algorithm update. The data suggests six preliminary observations on the direction of Google’s algorithm and what publishers and SEOs need to know now.
AI Overviews is a search feature, so any changes to Google’s core ranking algorithm will be reflected in AIO, especially because there are several ways AIO and the organic search results overlap.
One of the more interesting trends that continues this month is an overlap between the websites cited in AIO and the organic search results. This shift, first noticed in September, was highly noticeable, especially within the top ten organic search results. High ranking organic content has a high chance of becoming a citation in AIO. This trend suggests that Google is increasingly aligning AIO citations with the organic search algorithm.
How Google is aligning organic SERPs with AIO can only be speculated because Google has not commented on this trend. It may be that AIO is grounding itself in organic search results that themselves are increasingly more precisely aligned to search query topicality.
Google’s information gain patent describes a way to rank websites that closely links Google’s organic search ranking with an AI-based search interface. These trends that BrightEdge noticed align with that kind of symmetry between AI Search and organically ranked answers.
The trend for overlap between organic and AIO SERPs doesn’t manifest in shopping related queries.
But this trend doesn’t hold for shopping queries. Organic shopping SERPs and AIO results are increasingly uncoupled and going in different different directions. BrightEdge interpreted the data to mean that additional supporting results in AIO are why organic and AIO for shopping queries increasingly don’t match.
Google’s algorithm update won’t be finished until about two weeks from now. However BrightEdge’s Generative Parser technology is showing how the search results are trending that hint at what’s going on under the surface of the search results.
BrightEdge shared that ranking overlap between organic and AIO initially experienced a slight increase in volatility (+2.3%) leading into November 8th but that it subsequently started trending downward (-3.7%) on the following two days and the downward trend continued as the update was announced.
After the release of the update the volatility between organic search results and AIO began to seriously spike. BrightEdge interprets the changes as suggesting that there is a pattern of redistribution. In my opinion this may reflect changes to both AIO and organic rankings which at some point should stabilize. The scale of the changes at the lowest ranking levels (positions 21-30) indicate a high level of volatility.
It must be stressed that what BrightEdge’s Generative Parser is reporting represents real-time changes across millions of search results which are indicative of the scale of changes within the search results. BrightEdge next looks at specific industries and at this time is seeing significant shifts in e-commerce queries and notable changes in Education related queries.
Here are changes by industry:
The volatility patterns give an early tentative indication of what kinds of queries Google is giving priority in this update. Again, these are real-time results that are subject to change as new parts of the update are rolled out.
BrightEdge’s Insights From Volatility Rates:
BrightEdge gave Search Engine Journal their interpretation of what the real-time data might suggest for future AIO citations:
There’s a lot of negative sentiment to this update that is easily understandable because 2024 has been a bad year for many publishers. For example, a common complaint on X (formerly Twitter) is that Google shows too much Reddit content.
Google’s AI Overviews has not been welcomed by publishers at any level or in any industry because it’s brutal to see your content reworded by Google’s AI then added into a summary that includes reworded content from competitors, with just a tiny hard to see link for the citation.
Frank Pine, executive editor of Media News Group and Tribune Publishing (a network of 68 newspapers) was quoted earlier this year by the New York Times as remarking that Google’s AI Overviews is “cannibalizing” content and harming publishers.
The Times quoted him:
“It potentially chokes off the original creators of the content,” Mr. Pine said. The feature, AI Overviews, felt like another step toward generative A.I. replacing ‘the publications that they have cannibalized…’”
At this point in time it doesn’t do anyone good to sit around and grumble. Keep an eye on the search results to monitor changes as this update rolls out and follow the data.
Read more about the November 2024 Google Core Algorithm Update and learn more about AI Overviews here.
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Chartable to close – Podnews

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Exclusive: Spotify is to close the podcast analytics platform Chartable, as part of a re-focus at the company. Chartable users will receive an email a little later today detailing next steps. The tool, bought by Spotify in Feb 2022, offered “SmartLinks and SmartPromos” attribution tools; which we reported in 2022 were to be incorporated into Megaphone. That’s still the plan for Megaphone-hosted customers; though Spotify has also recently announced generally available attribution tools similar to SmartLinks for the Spotify app. Chartable’s co-founder Dave Zohrob left Spotify in July; Spotify’s other purchase at the time, Podsights, was integrated into Spotify Ad Analytics in June last year.
The winners of the British Podcast Awards 2024 were announced. Of the podcast-specific awards, the BBC won nine; Acast were involved in five. Audible won three awards, including podcast of the year, which went to Press Play, Turn On.
The winners of the Black Podcasting Awards 2024 were announced too. Lisa Woolfork and her show Stitch Please won three new trophies. PRX shows won eight awards.
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Sport podcast listeners are 2.3x more likely to trust podcast adverts, compared to print and sports radio, according to new data from Sport Social.
Tom Webster look at “The Persuadables”, 20 million people in the US who don’t listen to a podcast right now, but could easily be converted – and what’s needed to get them listening.
New stats from Libsyn’s The Feed show another record low in share of downloads to Apple Podcasts.
The Podcasting Standards Project has issued an update on its work. The group is working on enhancing the “people” feature, which provides podcast credits, and a potential feature to mark shows produced by AI.
Adam Carolla is to release a new show, “Beat It Out”, as an exclusive show on Substack. You’ll need to be a paid subscriber to listen.
Google’s NotebookLM – which (in part) lets you create a podcast-like experience from uploaded articles, like this, has added a built-in YouTube uploader, and better sharing tools. Since it’s a Google product, we assume it’ll be closed in three years; but it’s an impressive tool in the meantime.
Correction: Yesterday, we got a bit confused about connecting Apple Podcasts with your NYT subscription. Just like Spotify, on Apple Podcasts you can connect these, no matter how you subscribed to The New York Times.

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The Take will be made into a video podcast on YouTube from Monday. It’s the second show from Al Jazeera, the international news broadcaster, to make the jump to video.

The New Media Show this week had Adam Curry as a special guest for episode #501. The Podfather joined from Hill Country Texas, talking about value-for-value and how No Agenda works.

In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, we talk to Mark Asquith from Captivate about his company’s new Spark AI product; and more about the decision by Spotify to close Chartable.

The Wonder of Stevie was launched yester-me, yester-you, yesterday from Higher Ground, the Obamas’ production company. It’s a six-part series about Stevie Wonder’s five legendary albums in just four years, hosted by Misstra Know It All himself, NYT writer Wesley Morris. Perfect for you if you’re a part-time lover of his work, or if his music is the sunshine of your life.

What would you do if you won the ultimate lottery jackpot? Rich Beyond My Wildest Dreams is new today from Acast and EuroMillions from The National Lottery. Every Friday, a new guest will be invited to sit down and plan how they’d spend their hundreds of millions, covering their first purchases, their long-term plan, and the charitable causes they’d champion. Supporting Podnews had better be in the list.

Decision-making in the built environment is evolving faster than ever, and it’s causing friction across industries. Season six of Design Nerds Anonymous started this week on the SURROUND podcast network. The new season pulls back the curtain on the challenges facing decision makers today — why decisions are taking longer, involving more people, and demanding more data than ever before.

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Over the last week, 197,187 podcasts published at least one new episode (down 1.4%). source

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