What are your Essential Listens?

Update: 2025-05-20

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What five podcasts have impacted you the most? Left of Media is creating The Essential Listening Poll - a list of the 100 most influential podcasts of all time to be published in August at Podcast Movement in Dallas: and as a Podnews reader, you’re invited to submit your five shows here. You’ve until the end of this month - please say you’re a Podnews reader when you submit yours.
- Among our five would be... CNET’s Buzz Out Loud; This Week in Tech; pioneering true-crime show Death in Ice Valley; satirical show The Bugle; and your podcast. Yours. That one you do.

Kara Swisher (and the business beind Pivot) is the subject of a profile in the New York Times. We learn that Swisher and business partner Scott Galloway turned down a $40mn guaranteed offer, and instead signed a 70% revenue deal with Vox Media that could return $70mn for them to split.

Spotify has been criticised for listing spam podcasts that operate as links to websites for illegal drugs. Previous industries who have targeted free podcast hosts like Spotify also include book piracy and sex workers. Spotify say they’ve removed them.

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