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The Secrets from a Coach podcast hosted by wellness coach Debbie Green at Wishfish and TEDx speaker Laura Thomson-Staveley at Phenomenal Training this week celebrates its 300th episode. Marking a journey that began during lockdown in September 2020, the podcast has since exceeded 72,000 downloads, with 78% of listeners living outside the UK and 81% listening via their mobile phones. The podcast…
SOUND.WAVES. returns to Limerick this November for its second year for a three-day programme that brings together the people shaping music, podcasting and the business of modern content. Taking place from 10 th – 12 th November 2026 at The Woodlands Hotel, Adare, SOUND.WAVES. will once again connect creators, artists, podcasters, producers, platforms, broadcasters and industry leaders from Ireland…
Audacy announced a strategic partnership with the MeidasTouch Network, the fast-growing independent media company founded by brothers Ben, Brett, and Jordan Meiselas. Audacy will become MeidasTouch's exclusive audio partner for sales and distribution, expanding and fortifying Audacy’s lineup of newstalk content, further strengthening MeidasTouch's rapidly growing podcast business, and expanding…
From the pressure to get parenting "right" to the realities of autism, grief, loss and family life, Parent Unplugged is creating a space for the conversations parents don't always get to have. Since launching in April 2025 , Parent Unplugged has quickly become one of the UK's most successful parenting podcasts, reaching #1 in Apple Podcasts' Parenting chart , consistently charting in the Top 15…
Triton Digital ® , the global technology and services provider to the digital audio, podcast, and broadcast radio industries, released today its Q2 2026 U.S. Podcast Ranker, which shows a marketplace in motion as mid-term elections, creator-driven discovery, and habitual comedy consumption reshape the charts. Podcasting remains a strong and growing medium, but beneath the surface, the marketplace…
PAVE Studios, a media company specializing in creator led, company owned IP across video, audio, live experiences, and more, today announced that Jennifer Passovoy will join the company effective August 31, 2026. Reporting directly to PAVE Studios Founder and Chief Executive Max Cutler, Passovoy will be Head of Unscripted Video and Senior Producer. In this role, Passovoy will run a new vertical…
AudioOne recently approached Magellan AI and asked whether we could give advertisers and agencies in Ireland benchmarks for the podcast market, like the ones we publish for the US and Australia. Our data team mapped podcast advertising across popular Irish shows in the first half of 2026 and compared it with the same period in 2025. Our models see both the brands buying ads and the shows carrying…
Goalhanger has appointed Tom Miceli as Head of IP Development, a newly created role focused on expanding the company’s television and film business. Miceli joins Goalhanger from WME, where he spent more than a decade in the agency’s television division, representing producers, directors, talent, and helping lead the agency’s international format business. Most recently, he led WME’s work on…
Flightpath Software Inc. today announced the development of Automation Playbooks, and with it a public position on a question that is critical to the future of this industry: whether a publisher’s commercial decisions should be honored by the technology they pay for. Podcast publishers carefully negotiate ad frequency, targeting, and priority with media buyers, but recent changes to how…
Realm, the podcast-first digital media network focused on fandom, today announced the addition of six new shows to its expanding slate. A Paranormal Chicks, True Crime Campfire, The Box of Oddities, The Shallow End, From Beneath the Hollywood Sign, and Murder She Watched bring distinctive voices and passionate fanbases to Realm, which will manage distribution and multi-channel monetization for all…
Different, Not Broken , the neurodivergence and mental health podcast hosted by Lauren Howard, has been renamed You're Not Too Much , with the original name now becoming the Different, Not Broken Network — an umbrella for the show and planned further titles launching across the remainder of 2026. The first episode under the new name is out today. The show covers neurodivergence, mental health,…
More than 1,000 Buzzsprout-hosted shows have now published over 11,000 HLS video episodes on Apple Podcasts. “The HLS video experience in Apple Podcasts keeps what people love about podcasts while adding video,” said Alban Brooke, Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout. “Listeners can watch an episode, listen to it, or read its transcript in one place, and the early growth shows audiences are embracing…
Refinery29 today announced their partnership with eos products, the iconic Gen Z beauty and personal care brand, on NOSE DIVE , the media brand's first original podcast that explores fragrance through the lens of pop culture. The series debuts August 17, 2026 with a 5-episode season arc, marking the first collaboration between a media company and a beauty brand to launch a fragrance-focused…
Following significant industry buzz around last year’s inaugural Podcast Study, Point-To-Point Marketing and Strategic Solutions Research are returning with The Podcast Study 2026, an expanded national research initiative examining what drives podcast consumption, discovery, loyalty, and growth. At a critical time for the industry, audio leaders Crooked Media, NPR, and PRX are co-sponsors of The…
108.9 The Hawk , the improvised comedy podcast set inside Val Verde's second favorite classic rock radio station, has officially launched Series Seven with special guest Rekha Shankar. The show has built a loyal fan base around its strange collision of classic rock radio, long-form improvisation, fake commercials, and an ever-growing fictional universe. The Series Seven premiere, "A New Happy…
Covatic, the audience solutions company for publishers and broadcasters, today announced the launch of Covatic Smart Campaigns, a publisher-controlled optimisation engine that lets publishers reshape campaign targeting while campaigns are still live, optimising directly for the advertiser’s business outcomes: sales, purchases, sign-ups and visits. Most audio, CTV, and display campaigns lock their…
