Wondery raises $5m in funding

in the latest pod News podcast network wondery has raised $5 million in funding and have released some demographic Research into podcasting dirty John has achieved over 20 million downloads and is being made into two TV shows says Tech crunch the Atlantic is growing its podcast Division and has hired its first executive producer Katherine Wells who comes from gimlet it's announced its third podcast crazy genius a tech culture show joining radio Atlantic and the atlan interview I'm Ben Shapiro this is the Ben Shapiro show and this is a show which will be broadcast on Westwood one on a bunch of radio stations starting next week the company claims that advertising slots are sold out Ben Shapiro is apparently very well known in the US SoundCloud has added a new feature scheduled publishing now you can upload a podcast and have it publish at a time to suit you it's a feature present in most podcast hosts but it's good to see here Spotify is funding sound up boot camp a weekl long intens program for aspiring female broadcasters of color it's in June in New York and the top three pitches at the end of the week will be funded at up to $10,000 and this is a global ta link prepaid call from Adnan say Adnan Sayad has been granted a new trial and if this name or this music means nothing to you where have you been you'll find all the links and more at podnews Donnet and we're publishing right over the holiday period as normal [Music]