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News, Roundups, and Announcements

• Podnews reports that Linking service Podfollow has launched Podfollow Charts, a new feature that lets users track any podcast’s Apple Podcasts and Spotify chart position, for free.
• ​Talia Augustidis reports that "the BBC cancelled Short Cuts, one of the most inventive programmes on radio in my opinion."
• ​Apple's iOS18 helps users set up their favorite categories in Apple Podcasts. I'm an Overcast girl, but let's all hop on Apple Podcasts and show them what category matters.
• ​Christmas Is Coming The End has a roundup of holiday podcasts for the darkest time of the year and Fictional & Alternative Histories for perspectives and metaphors you won't find on the Hallmark Channel.
• Congratulations to Long Cat Media on achieving their fundraising goal for Mockery Manor: The Murder Mystery Game!
• ​Camlann's fundraiser is still ready for you.

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Creator Resources

• ​RØDE Wireless Micro Review: A Palm-Sized Podcast Studio, by Matthew McLean. No hyperbole.
• ​All Hear for December, 2024 is available for your perusal.
• ​Robert Dudzic's YouTube channel is loaded with shorts that show how he makes different sounds for horror movies, ASMR, and other spine-tingling stuff.
• ​Authenticity and Innovation in Audio Drama with Lisa McMullin and Alfie Shaw Follow Your Curiosity shares an interview with Lisa McMullin and Alfie Shaw, both writers for Big Finish Productions.

Opportunities

• ​The Third Coast International Audio Festival's Call for Entries for Best Serialized Story is open, AND, "For the lowest rates of the year, take advantage of our 'We Need Third Coast' Flash Sale, from now until December 17." Final Deadline: March 20, 2025.
• Transom presents Traveling Workshop 2025: Catalina, California, March 23 – 30, 2025. Applications are due on the 17th of January.
• Don't have $3K? Transom x Blue Mountain Center residency applications are open and will close at 11:59PM PST on February 1, 2025.
• ​Content Is Queen's Micro-Grants for Podcasters' application window closes on 3 January 2025 at 18:00 GMT, so go get 'em, Tiger.
• ​The Podcast Show Panellist and Session Call for Proposals Deadline: 16 December.

Milestones & Debuts

• Simon & Schuster wrote to us and said: "When two super-fans of a beloved game show hear that it’s being rebooted, they decide to team up and fake a marriage to compete in the hilarious and swoon-worthy Know Your Newlywed, a full-cast original audiobook!" which is not a podcast. This audiobook goes on sale on the 10th of December.
• ​Wicked Dames. Teen girls seducing and killing Nazis? Check. Queer love story? Check. Game of Thrones-esque layers, twists, and turns with a mystery listeners can follow along with? Double check. All episodes of the Wicked Dames audio drama are out now.
• ​Guess Who Didn't Die Today is an epistolary view of a group of adventurers trying to save the world. Parents worry, after all, so Pehryz keeps theirs updated.
• ​Muffy Drake: The Lost Bistro Cafe & Cabaret "is a Franco-American team of storytellers with a Catcher-of-the-Wry Vibe. Absurd & Quirky Stories told by a veteran French NPR broadcaster and 2-time Peabody Award winner. The podcast is winning Audio Fiction festivals internationally." What's the show about? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
• Do you know where to find Miss Shipton's Traveling Teashop? Ask a friend.

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