Osman Faruqi fronts new Schwartz Media podcast The Culture
May 14, 2021 9:41
Independent media company Schwartz Media has announced the launch of a new podcast covering the world of arts and culture.
The Culture launches at the end of May, and will be hosted by the editor of Schwartz’s hugely successful 7am news podcast, Osman Faruqi.
7am editor Faruqi will host The Culture
The podcast has been created following the growth of 7am’s culture coverage, and will see Faruqi take a weekly look at the film, music, TV, streaming, books and art.
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He said: “The Culture is a show I’ve wanted to make for a long time. We hear from our audience all the time that they’re hungry for smart, engaging and fun angles on what they love watching and listening to.
Life Uncut edges into top 5 in Australian Podcast Ranker
The iHeartPodcast Network’s
Life Uncut with Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne has climbed into the top five in the Australian Podcast Ranker.
It swapped placed with Schwartz Media’s
7am, which slipped to sixth place.
The rest of the top five remained unchanged, with Audioboom’s
Casefile True Crime holding onto #1, iHeartPodcast’s
Stuff You Should Know in #2, LiSTNR’s
Hamish & Andy in #3 and ARN/iHeartPodcast’s
The Kyle & Jackie O Show in #4.
For the measurement period of April,
Casefile True Crime and
Life Uncut had eight,
The Kyle & Jackie O Show had 84.
BY
Marija Mrvosevic ON 11 May 2021 2 min read
Australian Podcast Ranker published the newest report on Australia’s favourite podcasts. Casefile holds its number one position since February, when it outranked Stuff You Should Know.
Casefile True Crime started in 2016. It is a true crime podcast that explores solved and unsolved cases. Starting with a team of one, the mysterious host known only by the moniker ‘The Host’, Casefile developed into a team of 10. It releases episodes every Sunday for three weeks with the fourth week being a break. It is published by Audioboom.
Stuff You Should Know is published by ARN/iHeartMedia. It began in 2008 and it is published three times per week. Stuff You should know held the number one position until February 2021 and now it sits in the second place.
Podcast downloads stay high as top 4 downloaded shows unchanged
May 11, 2021 11:04
Podcast downloads took a slight dip in April to 48.2 million, down from March’s record high 50 million, according to Triton Digital’s Podcast Ranker.
The monthly Australian Podcast Ranker lists the top 100 podcasts from participating publishers for listeners in Australia, as well as ranking the top 10 publishers through 1 April to 30 April.
The top four spots stayed the same, with Audioboom’s Casefile True Crime podcast holding on to the top spot, followed by ARN/iHeartPodcast Network Australia’s Stuff You Should Know which also stayed steady at #2, Hamish & Andy at three and The Kyle & Jackie O Show at four.
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