In Europe, they’re still investing in podcasts
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Meanwhile, in Europe, the latest from Podnews.net with squadcast record remotely in studio quality, Podimo has just announced that it's raised 44 million euro, that's 48 million U. S. Dollars in funding. Morton Strunga, the CEO, says it'll allow the company, which offers subscriptions to a premium podcast platform, to continue growth while orienting it towards profitability. The effect of iOS Seventeen's changes in Apple Podcasts could be 30% fewer downloads for your show, according to Libsyn's Rob Walsh, speaking in the feed.
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If shows have over 300 episodes, they could and should expect to see their total weekly downloads at the end of November be greater than a 25% drop below where their weekly numbers were in early September.
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But you're not getting less listeners, he adds.
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Here's the thing, and I want people to remember this, your audience size did not change those numbers, that those extra downloads that were happening to your back catalog weren't being listened to. It's just right sizing your downloads, your monthly and weekly downloads, to what's more realistic and what's really happening.
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Rob also notes that Spotify's numbers are down as well, a point we made on December the fourth. It's a good listen. You'll find it in your favorite podcast app, the feed from Libsyn. And if you wonder how other people are doing with their podcast downloads, our sister publication, the Podcast Business Journal, has links to over 300 shows who are sharing their download data. Using op three, you'll find that@podcastbusinessjournal.com data the Podcast Reader, a printed magazine of podcast transcripts, which published its final edition in November, is now to be published digitally by podcast transcript company Fanfare. The new publication will be free and will launch early next year. The spanish language podcast platform Evuks has published its look back at 2023. Evux Rewind is available to audiences as a personalized view, and the company has also released a number of statistics from it.
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Buzsprout is sending Backtrack 2023 to its users data showing how podcasts on the platform did. The links are shareable, so we've linked the data for our own Pod news weekly review, and you'll find that in our show notes and our newsletter Today@PodNews.net. Unsurprisingly, our trailer is the number one downloaded episode, and the show is in the top 10% on Buzzsprout, who sponsor the show. We've updated our recommendations for podcast apps to replace Google podcasts and Stitcher, and Libsyn has published its predictions and wishes for podcasting in 2024, and in podcast news was I in a cult has signed with podcast one, making it the 22nd podcast added to the podcast one network in 2023.
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