Series has been nominated for awards and has reached 19million downloads The Mail’s hit series The Trial has been ranked as the fifth most popular new show of 2023 on Apple podcasts. The first series, The Trial of Lucy Letby, became a global hit and has been downloaded more than 13million times. It has built …
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Apple and Spotify have revealed their top podcasts of 2023. Here is what they do — and don’t — tell us.
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. It’s that time of year again, when all your friends share their Spotify Wrapped and you (read: me) reply with your boring Apple Music Replay and nobody cares. I do also have Spotify, but my Wrapped isn’t loading, maybe because it …
Apple Reveals Most Popular Podcasts of 2023
Apple today shared the most popular podcasts of 2023, with year-end charts available in the Browse tab of the Podcasts app through the end of the year. The charts include the top podcasts overall, the top new podcasts that debuted this year, the most followed podcasts, the most shared podcasts and episodes, and more. A …
Spotify boss suggests Harry and Meghan’s £18m podcast deal ‘didn’t work’ because it failed to ‘make consumers happy’ after Sussexes made just 12 podcasts in two-and-a-half years
The chief executive of Spotify has suggested that Harry and Meghan’s £18million podcast deal collapsed because it failed to make consumers happy after the Sussexes made just 12 podcasts in two-and-a-half years. Daniel Ek, who was making a rare media appearance almost four months after it was announced that the Archetypes podcast would not be …
YouTube Music rolls out auto-downloads for podcasts
Following the news that Google Podcasts is shutting down next year, YouTube Music now has the ability to auto-download podcasts. To enable, visit a show page and tap the new settings gear icon to “Save/d to library.” This slides up the “Turn on auto-downloads” button and will immediately download the most recent episode to your …
Apple and Google are changing how you listen to podcasts
This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hello Hot Podders, Amrita and Ariel here! Today we’re bringing you a co-bylined issue of the newsletter, mostly out of necessity. We’ve got a whole mess of news to dive into: Apple takes a big(ish) step toward integrating its audio apps, …