Sponsored by Central Talent Booking. The Guests Your Podcast Needs - From celebrities to experts, Central Talent Booking connects you with the right guests to captivate your listeners. Learn more.
- Above: Spotted at the Greater Toronto Area podcaster meetup last week, John and Jennifer from the Canadian Podcast Awards, and Arys Déjan, host of The Who & How Club. They’re preparing for PodCamp Toronto next month.
- There will be a federal election this year in Australia, and the current Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has chosen his first long-form interview to be on independent podcast News Club from The Squiz.
- The US certainly seems to be locked-on to shows from the Locked On Podcast Network. The company claims 358 million listens and views in 2024; an increase of 20% year-on-year. Podnews understands that the company’s Locked On College Sports channels grew by over 50% on the year; and projected total listens and views in 2025 should be over 400 million.
> > > Read more of today’s podcast industry news stories on the Podnews website: and get our free daily newsletter.
Classifieds - your job or ad here
- Podcast Growth & Monetization tips every Thursday! — Subscribe to the FREE Podcasting Business School newsletter and get fresh tips every Thursday for podcast growth, monetization, and online business strategies. Join over 4,000+ Pod Pals on this list.
- Need short-form content? — I'm Kristen (a real person), who can highlight the best moments from your podcast.
- Run Growth for Podpage — Podpage is adored by customers and seeking an experienced growth marketer to own end-to-end scaling to 5-10x more podcasters and creators. You will do it all and have a ton of autonomy.
Gold supporters: Buzzsprout, Mowpod, Mamamia, The $100 MBA, Sounds Profitable, Cloud10, The Podglomerate, Audiohook, Cohost, audioBoom, Steve Lack: Audio, Resound, SALT, RedCircle, Podscribe, Simplecast, Riverside.fm, Jar Podcast Solutions, Podchaser, Awesound, Acast, We Edit Podcasts, Knucklehead Media Group, Disctopia, Evergreen Podcasts, Podpage websites
Silver supporters: Audacia Audio, Gamut Podcast Network, Bumper, Goalhanger, Sounds Debatable, Magellan AI, The Podcast Haven, Gumball, Truefans, Ask Ralph Christian Finance, Storyboard, POW PR, Frequency, Jonekiri, Ausha, The Roost, Podium , Red Seat Ventures, Compliance Podcast Network, Huberman Lab, SoundStack, Voxtopica, ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Aust, Castbox, Tink Media, Gilded Audio, Podcastpage, Message Heard, Health Podcast Network, Blubrry, Transistor, Lemonada Media, Zvook, Castos, Rhapsody Voices, Oxford Road, Headliner, Ossa Collective, Podcast Taxi, matchmaker.fm, Optimal Living Daily, Sonic Influencer Marketing, Rephonic, Double Elvis Productions, Wondery, Diversion Podcasts, Jam Street Media, Heartcast Media50, StreamGuys, Content10x, Podcast Partnership, Ad Results Media, Hear.Here.Singapore, Cleanfeed, She Podcasts, Revolver Podcasts, Adopter Media, Sonix, Lower Street, Podcast Movement, School of Podcasting, Podigy, Edison Research, Signal Hill Insights
Our supporters pay for Podnews, so everyone can read it. Join them today.
Image: Colin Judge