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LiSTNR, Australia’s largest sales representation podcast network^, has just welcomed one of the world’s biggest podcasts (and most famous boyfriends) to the LiSTNR audience network, with all episodes now available on LiSTNR. Travis Kelce, the star of Kansas City Chiefs and boyfriend of Taylor Swift, and his brother Jason Kelce, the former center of the Philadelphia Eagles, have signed their top-rated podcast New Heights to Wondery in a landmark deal. LiSTNR’s exclusive sales representation partnership in Australia for all Wondery titles, allows Australian marketers to position their brands alongside one of the world’s hottest podcasts.

LiSTNR’s Australian ad-sales rights with the New Heights podcast, also includes the show’s back catalogue. With the third season kicking off in time for the new NFL season, the weekly podcast gives fans ‘next-level’ access to life in the league. The famous football brothers and Super Bowl champions provide...

The leading podcast studio and publisher Wondery, an Amazon company, announced today an ad-sales representation and distribution deal for the popular fan-favorite sports podcast series, New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce. Starting this month, the deal includes global distribution rights to all audio and video episodes of the podcast, New Heights’ back catalogue of all content, as well as rights to create international audio adaptations of the podcast for global audiences.

Timed to the upcoming NFL season, Wondery has exclusive rights to monetize and distribute audio and video podcast episodes. New Heights will continue to be available widely on all podcast services, including Wondery’s various distribution channels and on YouTube. The deal also includes ad-free listening on Wondery+, livestreams, and rights to develop, manufacture, license and distribute all merchandise based on New Heights, including new consumer products.

“We couldn't be more excited to team up with Wondery for...

Edison Research announces the Top 50 Podcasts in the U.S. based on reach for Q2 2024 among weekly podcast listeners age 13+.

The list ranks podcasts based on total audience reach from Edison Podcast Metrics. Interviews were conducted continuously throughout the quarter in English and Spanish. Rankings are based on listening over the full period. All respondents reported listening to podcasts in the last week.

Remaining the Top 3 from Q1 2024 into Q2 2024 are The Joe Rogan Experience, Crime Junkie, and The Daily.

Podnews’s list here includes hosting companies and previous places. You can also import the Opml file into your podcast app to subscribe to all fifty.

Podcasts Detail 1 (1) The Joe Rogan Experience 2 (2) Crime Junkie 3 (3) The Daily 4 (7) Call her Daddy 5 (5) Dateline NBC 6 (8) SmartLess 7 (10) Stuff You Should Know 8 (6) This American Life 9 (12) This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von 10 (9) Morbid 11 (11) Club Shay Shay 12 (14) MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories 13 (17) Serial 14 (4) New Heights with Jason...

Merge Games and developer Still Running are still plugging away at their upcoming horrorpunk RPG Morbid: The Lords of Ire, but they have good news for fans in the form of a new demo. Set for release on December 5th, the demo contains around an hour worth of gameplay, allowing players to check out the games’ revamped Sanity System, its gruesome hack & slash combat, culminating in facing off against the first boss.

In addition, Still Running also recently dropped a new developer diary that reveals a bit of the environments for Morbid. The environments range from the snowy frozen slopes of Rimehold, to the gothic spires of the demon-infested city of Irelia.

The story for Morbid: The Lords of Ire sees the antagonists from the first game, the Gahars, coming back once again. It’s up to you, the the Striver of Dibrom, to stop them once again. You’ll...

Taylor Swift is celebrating her newfound status as Spotify’s Global Top Artist with a surprise of her own: The massively popular singer-songwriter has just officially released the previously hard-to-find fan favorite song “You’re Losing Me.”

The song, now widely available on streaming services, is the latest of Swift’s “from the vault” releases – tracks that didn’t make her official studio albums. “You’re Losing Me,” which Swift co-wrote with producer Jack Antonoff, was initially released last May only on the “Late Night Edition” CD of Swift’s 2022 album Midnights and in a digital version exclusively at her web store.

This morning, Swift posted on X/Twitter, “Um ok this is unreal?? I just wanted to say to anyone who listened to my music this year, anywhere in the world, thank you. Getting named Spotify’s Global Top Artist in 2023 is truly the best birthday/holiday gift you could’ve given me.

The critically acclaimed original true-crime series from Wondery, Dr. Death, will return in December with a new story of a doctor who deceived both the medical establishment and the patients who put their lives in his hands. In the fourth installment, Dr. Death: Bad Magic host Laura Beil returns to tell the story of Serhat Gumrukcu, a charismatic medic who said he was on the brink of curing some of the world’s deadliest diseases—all while hiding secrets about his criminal past. The fourth season will be available on Wondery+ starting December 4, and will be available on Amazon Music and everywhere you get your podcasts starting January 22.

Serhat Gumrukcu was acclaimed as a genius after his research promised groundbreaking treatments for the terminally ill. Excitement about the breakthrough made him rich—his biotech company reached a value of half a billion dollars. Meanwhile, Gumrukcu led a charmed life in Los Angeles,...

Today, premium podcast studio Wondery announced three new free ad-supported (Fast) Channels that will launch on Amazon Freevee, as a new entry point for audiences to discover Wondery’s premium content. Wondery’s three new Fast Channels will be the first podcast video channels on Freevee, featuring over 20 Wondery series, centered around True Crime, Sports, and Entertainment & Pop Culture.

Starting October 31, Freevee viewers can discover new and old episodes of Wondery’s fan-favorite podcasts through a mix of on-camera video, cinemagraphs, animation, and show artwork from series like Morbid, Business Wars, Dr. Death and Baby, this is Keke Palmer. These new Fast channels highlight Wondery’s unique brand of immersive storytelling to audiences through a video-first free streaming service like Amazon Freevee.All Fast Channels available on Freevee can be accessed through the Freevee app, as well as within Fire TV and Prime Video.

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Peacock's Based on a True Story revolves around the abundance and fascination of true-crime podcasts in the world, and one of the podcasts in the show is Sisters in Crime, hosted by the Lipinski siblings. The comedy thriller series stars Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina as Ava and Nathan Bartlett, a married couple struggling financially. Thankfully for them, a new serial killer starts terrorizing Los Angeles, and they get an idea for a new true-crime podcast detailing the murderer's crimes. However, unlike other podcasts, Ava and Nathan convince the serial killer to appear on their show.

Before jumping on the opportunity to start their podcast, Ava regularly listens to Sisters in Crime. She, like many others, is obsessed with true crime, so working on her own podcast is a dream come true, and she is inspired by the Lipinski sisters. Sisters in Crime is a very popular show in the...

From Wondery and Bloomberg – the creators behind the award-winning The Shrink Next Door – comes the new six-episode podcast Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, launching May 22. Hosted by Bloomberg crypto and tech reporter Hannah Miller, Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried takes listeners on the unbelievable ride of young crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, who quickly gained fame and fortune from celebrities and world leaders before his business empire came crashing down. The first two episodes will debut on May 22 on Wondery+ and the Bloomberg Terminal, and will be available on Amazon Music and everywhere you get your podcasts starting June 5, with new episodes released weekly on Mondays. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music starting June 5.

With a promise to change the world, Sam Bankman-Fried created Ftx and set up the crypto exchange to be unconventionally run by himself and his college friends. What could go wrong? Through Ftx,...

Primus and Tool members Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor are set to perform at a concert benefitting Canadian director, animator, and writer Jimmy Hayward.

The show is set for April 17th at The Belasco in Los Angeles. Tickets go on sale Friday (March 24th) at 10 a.m. Pt. via Ticketmaster.

Hayward, who is a close friend of Primus, is currently undergoing cancer treatment. The filmmaker notably worked in the animation department on iconic Pixar films such Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., and Finding Nemo [per IMDb]. He also directed Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!, Jonah Hex, and Free Birds.

“Every now and again cancer steps into our world and pulverizes the lives of people that are dear to us,” said Primus frontman Les Claypool in a press release. “Such a thing happened a while back with our good friend Jimmy Hayward. Over the past couple years Jimmy has...

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Apple Podcasts on Thursday added charts for the top 100 most-subscribed shows and channels available on the platform.

Though Apple is not releasing specific subscriber numbers for each show or channel, Morbid — the true crime show hosted by Alaina Urquhart and Ashleigh Kelley — is the top subscription show while Wondery+ is the top subscription channel in the U.S. and Canada, according to Apple, which bases these rankings on a mix of subscription numbers and listener engagement.

For top subscriber shows, Morbid is followed by SmartLess, hosted by Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes; Something Was Wrong, hosted by Tiffany Reese; Fed Up, narrated by Casey Wilson; and Crooked City: Youngstown, Oh, created by Marc Smerling.

In the U.S., Wondery+ is followed by the channels Sword and Scale +Plus Light, Sony’s The Binge, Luminary and Pushkin Industries’ Pushkin+.

Apple first launched...