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• The winners of the All-Ireland Podcast Awards were announced. Nicky Byrne won the Spotlight Award. The Irish Independent won two separate awards. We’ve a full list of the winners.
• The invite-only Podcast Business Summit took place in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman, who shared this gift-link to read her coverage. (Podnews readers can get a 25% discount off her newsletter.)
• How loyal is your podcast audience? The ideal is for repeat listeners, not just tire-kickers. Dan Misener at Bumper has learned that every podcast has an average lifetime value score, which goes up and down depending on the promotion your podcast gets (and whether it’s any good). The score has been added to the Bumper Dashboard.
  • Want a peek at ours? For the Podnews Weekly Review, you can see a significant jump in new audience when we had Jeanine Wright from Inception Point AI on (Sep 26), and we’re seeing more new audience on Apple Podcasts recently. Apple Podcasts listeners are more loyal, too; but Spotify’s slowly creeping up. And here’s our overview.

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