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A new way for curated podcast discovery - the latest from podnews.net with OpenRAP from

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Podcast curation platform Hark Audio has announced The Conversation, an easy way for listeners

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to discover podcast conversations happening around trending topics.

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The first conversation to be added is one around the US elections, with clips from a

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wide range of shows focusing on the campaign trail.

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Some you'll know and some you won't.

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Apple Podcasts is adding a better way to get around shows with chapters in the upcoming

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iOS 18. When you scrub through the timeline, you'll be able to see the chapter names, reports

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MacRumors. Appearance of a feature in beta doesn't though mean it'll make it to the final build.

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Nordic podcast hosting company Podspace now supports Apple Podcasts subscriptions, a tool

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initially known as delegated delivery, creators can now manage all content directly via Podspace's

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own publishing tool. Edison Research says that 79% of weekly podcast listeners in the US have listened to podcasts

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that have video, with 72% actively watching the screen.

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Jam, a short-form audio app and website, is to close.

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"We're still convinced that there's a future for the short audio format," said

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founders Pete and Chris. It'll close on July 15th.

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Libsyn Ads has signed an exclusive ad partnership with Mark Haynes Productions for an audio

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drama "Hindsight: the day before".

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Veritonic has added benchmarks to its brand lift measurement tool.

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The feature adds helpful context when showing how campaigns are performing.

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And Zombie News now: and four days after its international closure, Zombie Google Podcasts

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continues to refuse to die.

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In fact, it's worse than that, the bodies of the recently deceased are returning to

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life and attacking the living.

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"Let's put something else on"...

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Because over the last 24 hours, astonishingly, Google Podcasts website has been turned back

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on again, and now happily plays podcasts once more.

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The app is still available to install in Google Play, but has now been removed from the Apple

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App Store. It continues to function on both platforms.

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In people news, Lizzie Young has been confirmed as the new CEO of Commercial Radio and Audio

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in Australia. The organisation runs the Australian podcast ranker and works with radio broadcasters.

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Billy Hartman has joined Workflow Automation and ad management company Frequency to expand

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its business development efforts. And Oziel Enriquez recently joined Salem Web Media as the new podcast marketing coordinator,

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where he will be working with Life Audio, one of the top Christian audio podcast networks.

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And in podcast news, the Bouquet Toss, a wedding planning podcast, has joined Love Stories

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TV. After five successful seasons as an audio show, it's now a video podcast available

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on YouTube, Spotify and Love Stories TV's streaming TV channel.

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From the UAE, Crossing the Desert is the first reality show podcast that immerses listeners

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in the exhilarating journey of launching a business in Dubai.

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Recorded on location in the UAE, the show brings the highs and lows, the triumphs and

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setbacks and the indomitable willpower of an entrepreneur on a mission.

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In five random questions which launches today, Danny Brown asks a guest five questions thrown

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out by a random question generator.

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He says the guests don't know what I'm going to ask and neither do I, so each episode

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could go anywhere. The first two episodes are out now.

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And two guys, five rings. Matt Bowen and the Olympics is new from iHeartMedia and NBC Universal, hosted by Saturday Night

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Live's Bowen Yang and actor and comedian Matt Rogers.

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The team breaks down the top storylines, discuss the athletes to watch and their results, obsess

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over Paris culture and find out what really goes on in the Olympic village.

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That's part of an iHeartMedia and NBCU collaboration for the Olympics.

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