Winslow Bright talks about licensing music for your podcast. Hint: there is no fair usage. It’s the start of the podcast awards season. Facebook podcasting is growing but it’s clearly not ready for primetime and Spotify is testing sponsorship?

 HOSTS:

• Listen to James Cridland and Sam Sethi   

GUEST: 

• Winslow Bright - Executive Producer at Premier Music Group

NEWS: 

• Apple Podcasts announced its Best of 2021. A Slight Change of Plans with Maya Shankar from Pushkin Industries was chosen as Best Show of the Year.
  
  
• The chart also gives us some understanding of the performance of Apple Podcasts Paid Subscriptions - Bad Blood: The Final Chapter is #1 in the list, and said in September that they had 6,000 subscribers. (That was $16,000 a month in revenue after Apple’s cut).
  
  
• The Australian Podcast Awards winners will be announced on Thursday 2nd December at a live ceremony in Sydney.
  
  
• In Australia, the winners of the Australian Commercial Radio Awards were announced. Best Original Podcast went to Zero Waste Baby with Veronica Milsom, produced by SCA’s LiSTNR.
  
  
• In the UK, the 2021 Audio Production Awards took place. The Production Company of the Year was won by Listen Entertainment.
  
  
• In the UK, The Rachel Bland new podcast award from BBC Radio 5 Live has been awarded this year to You’re Not My Mum: The Stepmum’s Side.  
  
  
• Edison Research’s Infinite Dial is coming to the UK. The UK has been without a direct comparison to the US, Canada and Australia in terms of podcast consumption.
  
  
• The latest Share of Ear study from Edison Research suggests that more than a quarter of all Americans aged 18-34 are listening to podcasts every day. 
  
  
• Facebook is growing for podcast consumption: Tom Webster from Edison Research reports that Q3/21 data showed that 20% of people had listened to a podcast on Facebook. The same data three months earlier was just 8%. Meanwhile, still no sign of podcasts in Facebook outside the US
  
  
• RAIN’s Brad Hill reviews Facebook Podcasts. “Clearly not ready for primetime”, he concludes.

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