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• The iHeartPodcast Awards has announced its nominations. The award ceremony will be held on Mar 10 at SXSW. Three Icon Awards are also being made, to Sarah Spain, Dan Taberski and Daniel Alarcón. You can vote now for the Podcast of the Year.
• How big are serialised podcasts - shows you need to start at the first episode, and listen to the last? Bumper looks at how they interact with each other, and how you might market a serialised show by reaching audiences that already listen to them - or, listen to shows that are similar.
• Podtrac released its US rankers for December 2024. Almost all publishers saw a decline in traffic, as is normal. Acast leapt from #5 to #3, but the company releases its data after its quarterly financial reports, so while everyone else is reporting on December, the Acast numbers are for October (and are actually unchanged month-on-month). NPR News Now returned to #1 podcast; two shows from SiriusXM are new in the podcast charts, though SiriusXM isn’t listed in the publishers chart.

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