Here’s what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting:

Rajar Midas: podcasts double weekly reach in six years by Ella Sagar

The shifts that will impact 2024’s video ad landscape by Jennifer King

Defector Annual Report, September 2022 – August 2023

How Trader Joe’s, Erewhon, and H-E-B, have cultivated a cult following 

Women more disengaged with news than men

…as for the rest of the news: The Podcast Show 2024 is now accepting session and speaker submissions until Friday, December 8th (and in case you were wondering: Sounds Profitable will be in attendance), Livewire Labs has published an in-depth analysis of the impact of auto-download changes to Apple Podcast in iOS 17, and AdNews interviews Spotify’s head of sales for Australia and New Zealand.