Apple’s show of 2024 is Hysterical

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• Dan Taberski’s Hysterical, from Wondery and Audacy's Pineapple Street Studios, has been named the Apple Podcasts 2024 Show of the Year. There’s a special interview with Dan on Apple’s website, talking about how he makes the show, which is about cases of mass hysteria throughout history and what they say about society. It’s also available ad-free in Wondery+.
  
  
  
  • It’s the fifth “Show of the Year” from Apple Podcasts, joining NPR’s Code Switch, Pushkin’s A Slight Change of Plans, Slate’s Slow Burn: Roe vs Wade, and Lemonada Media’s Wiser than Me. All winners have been from the US.
  
  
  
  


• Mpls.St.Paul Magazine is excited: “One of the most influential executives in podcasting lives in Minneapolis.” Jessica Cordova Kramer manages to get a shout-out to Podnews in the middle of this interview - extra points! (She will also be a guest on the Podnews Weekly Review shortly, too).


• Spotify’s Chartable stops working on Dec 12 - if you’re using the Chartable prefix (chtbl.com or chrt.fm) in your RSS feed, your podcast may no longer be playable after that date. In research earlier this week, which we shared with affected podcast hosts, Podnews found 31,749 shows with the prefix still in it. Most podcast hosts are working to help customers.
  
  
  
  • Publishers using Spotify’s Megaphone will be unaffected.
  
  
  • It’s long been known that if podcasters change the enclosure URL, like removing the Chartable prefix, that triggers an automatic re-download on each listener’s Spotify app for every affected episode. Expect, therefore, significantly higher Spotify download numbers over the next few weeks as creators remove the Chartable prefix - and knock-on effects with ad serving.
  
  
  
  

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