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- A comedy podcast festival is to expand into the US - and to return to London and Melbourne. Cheerful Earful plans 15 days of live podcast shows across the globe, including a new event in New York City. Presented in partnership with headline sponsor Adelicious, the festival continues its mission to be “global but grassroots,” with comedy at the heart. Tickets are now on sale.
- New York Public Radio, the owners of WNYC, released its financial returns for FY23/24. The company brought in $73.9mn (including a government grant of just $347,000), but had expenses of $83.1mn. During the year the company eliminated leadership bonuses, cut its workforce by 40 people, and cancelled Death, Sex & Money, with production ceasing in January 2024. It’s now with Slate.
- Oliver Lafontaine, the CEO of the company, was paid $612,000. We also learn the packages paid to Brooke Gladstone (who hosts On The Media), and Anna Sale (who hosted Death, Sex & Money for six months of this return period): both were paid around $341,000.
- Podcast advertising via AdsWizz earned WNYC $426,000 during the year.
- Parla has launched its deep research assistant. The research tool is trained on “every active podcast in the world”. We asked it “should a podcast be in video, or just in audio”, and it gave us this.
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