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Podcast Network QCODE will pair with Chris Pine and Olivia Wilde for Ad Lucem, a new socio-political thriller series set in New York City in the near future. Ad Lucem will premiere later this summer on all major platforms.

Barometer and ArtsAI have announced AB Daily, a no-code AI solution that offers daily monitoring of show and episode-level suitability for ads running on podcasts. AB Daily allows advertisers to have real-time insights and contextual information during their campaigns.

ARN's iHeartPodcast Network Australia continues to lead the Australian podcast market, with five of the top ten podcasts in the April Australian Podcast Ranker. Across a variety of genres from health and fitness to true-crime, here are the top rankers.

According to the seventh annual Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) US Podcast Advertising Revenue report, podcasting continues to be one of the fastest-growing digital channels, growing two times faster than digital advertising overall because of the medium's continued diversity.

Former Disney Channel star Christy Carlson Romano has signed her podcast, Vulnerable, to independent ad sales company AdLarge's portfolio. The PodCo Network series features interviews with former child stars about their experiences growing up in the spotlight.

Police raided former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon's home and podcast studio in Washington, DC while he was doing a live episode of War Room last week in a "swatting" incident. Authorities received an erroneous call reporting a shooting.

Hollywood and film industry news site Deadline has introduced Strike Talk, a series covering the Writers Guild of America's strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers with topics such as the impact of AI and writer compensation.

On Thursday, iHeartPodcasts and UK podcast studio Novel launched The Fighty Pucks, a podcast that tells the story of The Danbury Trashers, known as the most violent hockey team in history. The series tells about the gruesome team and their mob ties.

It was the scandal that took down one of cryptocurrency's biggest names; now Wondery and Bloomberg are launching a new six-episode podcast, Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried., about the crypto billionaire's dramatic rise and fall.

iHeartMedia is capitalizing on its successful podcast production with Ruby, a new creative team dedicated entirely to the production, sales, and marketing of branded podcasts. With 30 original series from major brands, Ruby is iHeart's next step into monetizing on-demand audio.