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• Exclusive: Podnews has investigated The International Podcast Awards, a new award ceremony launched last year in Arizona, and discovered a website with misleading images, made-up winners, and a unique business model. As we report today, it's an award that looks great... but looks aren't everything.
• The Ambie Awards nominations were announced yesterday. Winners in 32 categories will be selected by the full voting membership of TPA; there are 227 nominees. The ceremony will take place as part of On Air Fest in Brooklyn on Feb 23.
  • The Golden Globes winner, Amy Poehler's Good Hang, is not among the nominees; indeed, Spotify is only nominated once, for its co-production with the Wall Street Journal.
• Spotify released a new set of data, in a piece by Spotify product director Frances McNamara. The total number of followed shows has doubled in the past three years on Spotify, with more than 34 million shows discovered every week by users. 93% of podcast listeners on Spotify say they expect Spotify to help them find their next favorite show.
  • The company also says that auto-generated chapters are "rolling out to more shows"; Apple Podcasts recently launched the feature for every single eligible show in the Apple Podcasts directory.

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