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• Taylor Swift’s appearance in New Heights made the show’s monthly downloads more than six times larger, according to a report from Podscribe. The show became the fifth biggest in August. However, it was still beaten, in terms of 60d average episode downloads, by The Diary of a CEO, which averaged 3.4mn downloads per episode (New Heights got an average of 3.2mn). The report also says that Amazon is now podcasting’s biggest advertiser.
  • Podtrac also released its rankers for August 2025. Most publishers saw an increase in audience. Wondery isn’t a participating publisher.
• Is YouTube doing odd things? Linus Media Group suggests 25% of their views have disappeared. Second Wind suggests something is going wrong; RedLetterMedia suggests it’s something to do with swearing; Moon Channel wonders if it’s something they said; and Clint’s Reptiles are confused as to why their numbers are low. Whatever’s going on, there seems to be a lot of reports of lower traffic.
• CrimeCon in Denver announced the winners of the 2025 Clue Awards. There were two awards for podcasts - Who Killed Jennifer Judd (season 2), produced by ID and Ark Media; and True Crime News: The Podcast, from Telepictures Productions Inc and Warner Bros. Entertainment.

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