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News, Roundups, and Announcements

• Thank you for being so patient while I was out on medical leave. Who needs more fiction to stuff in their brain? I know I do.
• Podnews reports that Table Read has "hit nine million downloads and kept a top 10 spot on Apple’s Fiction chart for 74 consecutive weeks. It’s also among the first podcasts to secure a SAG-AFTRA partnership, setting a new benchmark in audio storytelling and creator protections." Finally, podcasting can define the difference between an audio drama and a screenplay on a podcast.
• ​Overcast adds new listening stats and 48-hour undo features, by Chance Miller for 9 to 5 Mac. #overcast4life
• ​Spotify Playlists and Podcasts Are Being Abused by Spammers to Link to Pirate Websites — Here’s a Look at How the Scam Works, by Ashley King for Digital Music News
• ​Three Signs 3 Signs Listeners Are Making More Time for Podcasts, by Katie Paterson
• Congratulations to All Hear for reaching 5000 subscribers!

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Creator Resources

• Are you a registered owner of Focusrite hardware? Focusrite have teamed up again with Native Instruments to give you iZotope Ozone 11 Elements for free from now until 6th January 2025.
• ​Podcatcher Directories & Apps for Maximum Podcast Distribution, by Colin Gray. Make sure your show is available wherever your audience gets their podcasts, and I do mean everywhere.
• Got a boom arm? No? Well, maybe you should. Updated for 2024: Best Microphone Boom Arm for Podcasting?

Opportunities

• Casting Call: The Lesson, A Far-Fetched Fable, apparently "adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Farfetched Fables scene six."
• Casting Call: New Tin Can Audio Production! Plain text version of the form is available at the plain text version of the Tin Can Audio casting call. Deadline is 29th November 1pm GMT.
• If you can tell Lindsay the name of the drama from which the dialogue in this newsletter's subject line originates and who wrote it, you win a free Classified ad for your podcast. Terms and conditions apply.
• ​Silver Sound Biannual Sonic Dash: Registration is now open for the Winter 2025 Sonic Dash, which will take place on the weekend of January 3rd-5th, 2025. Registrants will be e-mailed a prompt for the competition on Friday, January 3rd. They will then have until noon on Sunday, January 5th to submit their entry. $1,000 cash prize. "Take a look at our Past Dashes to see the goodies we’ve dished out in the past. While you’re there, be sure to see what prior finalists have been able to do with 48 hours and a lot of ingenuity." Registration portal will close on December 29th, at 12 PM EST.

Milestones & Debuts

• ​Ten Apocalypses is a melancholic semi-anthology against the backdrop of a secret war. Deadly fungi, an asteroid on an impossible course, cosmic aliens, botanical body horror, killer drones, nuclear war… Everything, everywhere, everywhen is ending.
• ​Dean's Killer Joke. A pilot script that earned an Honorable Mention in Screencraft’s Podcast Writing Competition and is currently rated the #6 Drama Podcast on Coverfly is now airing through a DIY production.
• ​Icebox Radio Theater will help ring in the holiday season with a live performance and broadcast of the modern classic “Miracle on 34th Street” on Saturday, November 30th at 7pm.
• ​Unlicensed returned on October 31 with a new 12-episode season, with Molly C. Quinn and Lusia Strus reprising their roles as unlicensed private detectives Molly Hatch and Lou Rosen.
• Apparently, "New, original creative fiction podcast released this fall. Debut season of an imaginative short fiction series, read by the author."

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