Visit https://podnews.net/update/audioboom-q423 for all the links, and to get our newsletter. London-based podcast publisher Audioboom has just posted a trading update for Q4/23. Q4’s revenue, at $19mn, was up 37% quarter-on-quarter, and up 5% year-on-year. Downloads for the quarter were only down 0.75% year-on-year, in spite of the auto-download changes in Apple Podcasts. If that was too much good news for you, yesterday Semafor wrote about “the incredible shrinking podcast industry”, detailing the changes to Apple Podcasts’ auto-download behaviour. Some podcast publishers are angry - “advertising deals were inked under the assumption that shows had audiences they no longer have ... some shows could struggle to meet minimum download agreements.” In Australia, Josh Withers wants to be the ABC’s Head of Audio on Demand. His job application is... a piece of audio on demand. Nice! Give him an interview on that alone, surely? Classifieds - your job or ad hereWho grew 50% moving from Patreon to Supercast? 🤔 — Hidden Forces switched from Patreon and grew subscribers 50% in 3 months with a frictionless sign-up experience. Dozens more include FoundMyFitness and Canadaland. Click to see the case studies.DC's Version of the Central Park 5? [LISTEN NOW] — In the biggest murder trial in DC history, confessions were coerced and key evidence was hidden. 8 men served life sentences while maintaining their innocence. Now they seek a presidential pardon.Earn +$50 CPM from Feed Drops — Does your podcast receive over 10,000 downloads per month? Join a feed drop network and earn additional revenue with full content approval rights.Podcast hosting company Castopod has added “the Castopod Index”, a listing of shows hosted on the platform to aid discovery. The full index is here. Does your podcast inform people at the heart government? “This podcast series is worth listening to ... the best insight into Yemen.,” tweets the UK’s Minister of State for Security, Tom Tugendhat. He links to Message Heard’s Conflicted, a podcast looking at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. What did you learn from a podcast in 2023? The EarBuds newsletter asked 45 different people across the industry. Alberto Betella from RSS.com recalls when our Editor ordered grilled cactus leaves in cheese, while in Mexico (