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Veronica Milsom on becoming an adult with FirmChecker
Last week LiSTNR announced a new partnership with FirmChecker to launch a podcast series based on the most common questions asked about professional advice titled Full Blown Adult and hosted by Veronica Milsom.
Each episode will feature a self-reflective comedic monologue based on Milsom’s observations of becoming an adult. Milsom will also interview experts provided by FirmChecker on topics that cover areas such as the legalities around marriage and divorce, how to buy a home, how to deal with a crappy boss, how social media posts can be potentially defamatory, how to start investing money, how to get the best tax refund, how to start a side hustle, and how to protect your million-dollar idea.
Podcast Week‘s Trent Thomas caught up Milsom to talk about the new podcast and what it is like to work with FirmChecker.
“It was really easy working with FirmChecker, they gave us a lot of creative control and trusted us with the ideas and also provided great people for us to chat with about being an adult,” said Milsom. “I put a couple of jokes in the monologues that are a bit risky thinking these will get taken out, but I just wanted to test the waters, and all of them made it through. They’re a very progressive forward thinking lot.”
Milsom said that she was excited to do the project even if they thought she was a good fit due to her lack of life skills.
“They were like Veronica would be really good for this project, and I was like, oh, that’s embarrassing that you notice, but also this sounds fun,”
While she feels more like an adult since doing the show, Milsom said she still plans to go back and relisten to the podcast to learn some more.
“I might even listen back to some of the interviews to take notes. Because I felt like it would be weird to take notes at the time. Things like investment strategies, I had no idea about. Episodes about getting a divorce, I had to take less interest in because I felt like my husband would be listening to it being like she seems to into this.”
This was Milsom’s second podcast with LiSTNR after Zero Waste Baby, and she said that they were two very different experiences.
“It was a really different experience, because the first time was like a comedy documentary, which was so incredibly involved, where I was interviewing multiple people in an episode and sort of cobbling it together with a huge script. And I probably worked solo with the help of Jen Goggin, who was the producer, she was pretty involved. But I did a lot of it whilst breastfeeding, and multitasking and going through this huge life experiment. So it was really involved. But I suppose the commonality between making both of them is that they’re both very practical podcasts, they both have really good takeaways that you can listen to and be educated, but also, hopefully entertained and learn something along the way.”
Zero Waste Baby
As of last week, Milsom is now also an ACRA award winner after nabbing Best Original Podcast (Unbranded) at this year’s awards for Zero Waste Baby, which she said was an exciting achievement.
“Getting the ACRA was a real surprise and I actually didn’t realise what a big deal it was until people in the industry started reaching out to me, because I just expected Hamish and Andy to win and in my mind I’d already congratulated them. But I understand there is a trophy involved which I’m excited about because the last time I got a trophy was I think the coach’s award for a basketball tournament where I was clearly the worst and needed encouragement.”
Jonesy and Amanda go time travelling in new pod
This summer Jonesy & Amanda will take listeners back in time with their brand-new podcast Jonesy & Amanda’s Time Travellers.
Jonesy & Amanda have been on-air together for almost 17 years, and Jonesy has kept a diary for every single year they have been on air. Starting in 2005, Jonesy & Amanda will go through Jonesy’s diary and reflect on the year that was, reliving all the eventful things that happened that year – what was making the news, the big events, who they spoke to, what they were doing in their lives and all the other quirky things that filled the air (and off-air) at that time.
New episodes will be available every Tuesday and Thursday to keep listeners entertained while Jonesy & Amanda are off-air during the summer break.
[Listen to Jonesy & Amanda’s Time Travellers here]
All-day breakfast: 24/7 Kyle and Jackie O channel comes to iHeartRadio Australia
A new 24-hour station featuring Kyle & Jackie O had launched on iHeartRadio Australia. All Day KJ will feature non-stop, 24/7 back-to-back content, including the latest live shows, the Hour of Power each day at 6pm, topical content and the best classic moments of The Kyle & Jackie O show.
Lovers of KJ can re-live some of the best celeb guest interviews, including Usain Bolt, Rebel Wilson, Demi Lovato, Ed Sheeran, Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, Ricky Gervais, Miley Cyrus, Rob Lowe, Priyanka Chopra and more, alongside the hottest music and fan favourites like KJ’s famous Only Lying pranks.
Kyle Sandilands said, “It makes perfect sense to have a 24-hour station dedicated to us! It will be the biggest station iHeartRadio has ever had, make no mistake about it.”
Jackie O added, “Our listeners always say they miss us when we’re off air and we have over 20 years’ worth of content, so it’s nice for them to be able to relive those moments all day on KJ.”
Derek Bargwanna, head of content KIIS Sydney & Melbourne, said, “Kyle & Jackie O are already the most listened to FM breakfast show in Australia, and now fans can listen to them all day, every day. Over their more than twenty years working together, they’ve famously interviewed the biggest names in entertainment and produced some of the funniest and most compelling segments ever. There is an endless treasure trove of content to choose from, that iHeartRadio audiences can now tap into anywhere at any time. We’re continuing to define audio and love bringing the best and brightest Aussie content to our listeners across Australia.”
2021 Australian Podcast Awards: Full list of winners
The winners of the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards, powered by Acast, have been announced at an in-person ceremony celebrating the best Australian podcasts of the year across 29 different categories.
Hosted by comedic duo Susie Youssef and Harley Breen, the ceremony celebrated the who’s who and what’s what of Australian podcasting – from Best True Crime to Best Comedy and Best Sex & Relationship podcasts.
Stuff the British Stole
Dating and relationship podcast from Bachelor alumni Laura Byrne and Brittney Hockley, Life Uncut, took home the Listeners’ Choice Award for the second year in a row, while romantic dramedy fiction podcast, Private Affairs, took home Podcast of the Year. Julia Gillard’s A Podcast of One’s Own was awarded the coveted Spotlight Award, whereas The Nurse took home the award for True Crime podcast.
Over 90 judges listened to nearly 1,000 submissions to find these winners, and over 40,000 Australians voted in this year’s Listeners’ Choice poll, supported by LiSTNR.
2021 Australian Podcast Awards Winners:
Best Fiction Podcast – Private Affairs
Smartest Podcast – Shoes Off
Best Arts & Culture Podcast – The Culture
Best Wellbeing Podcast – Get Psyched
Best Comedy Podcast – A Rational Fear
Best Business Podcast – Propagate
Acast Moment Of The Year – The Nurse
Best Sex & Relationships Podcast – Cntroversy
Best Branded Content Podcast – Project ARI
Best Radio Podcast – Triple M’s Rush Hour with JB & Billy
Best Publisher or Network – DM Podcasts
Best Sport Podcast – Football Belongs
Best Current Affairs Podcast – Temporary
Best Lockdown Podcast – Linda Marigliano’s Tough Love
Best True Crime Podcast – The Nurse
Beat Entertainment Podcast – Stuff of Legends
Best Family Podcast – At Home With Brie
Best Interview – Bad Behavior
Best Documentary Podcast – The Sure Thing
Best New Podcast – Goodbye to All This
Best Indigenous Podcast – Brooke & Linda’s Dream Club
Spotlight Award – A Podcast of One’s Own with Julia Gillard
Bullseye Award – Empowerhouse
Best Creativity – Stuff The British Stole
Spotify Rising Star – Amelia Christo, StoryKids
Best Commercial Campaign – Jacob’s Creek – Finished Differently
Best Sales House – Mamamia
Listeners Choice – Life Uncut
Acast Podcast Of The Year – Private Affairs
SCA and Network 10 announce multi-year podcast agreement
SCA has announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Network 10 to expand the company’s relationship to the distribution, hosting, sales representation, and development of new podcast co-productions in 2022 and beyond.
The agreement will see Network 10’s existing podcasts, including The Professor and the Hack with Hugh Riminton and Peter Van Onselen, Short Black with Sandra Sully, Australian Survivor: Talking Tribal, and Where’s William Tyrrell?, housed exclusively on LiSTNR.
The LiSTNR team will also collaborate with Network 10 on a number of new co-productions in 2022 and beyond, including a weekly football podcast in conjunction with the network’s A-Leagues broadcasts.
The new co-produced podcasts will take a unique approach, with a concurrent TV broadcast and audio-on-demand launch.
In addition, SCA will provide editorial, hosting, distribution, and sales representation across all existing and new Network 10 podcasts.
SCA announces acquisition of kids radio and podcast company Kinderling
SCA CEO, Grant Blackley, has announced the acquisition of Kinderling, the Australian kids’ radio and podcast company, which joins the LiSTNR family.
Kinderling was founded by a group of parents who wanted to introduce children aged zero to seven to the world of music, stories, and creative expression. Since its inception in 2014, Kinderling has grown to become the country’s most popular and multi-award-winning kids’ radio and podcast company.
The company houses four live radio streams with Kids Live, chill, party, and sleep music for kids, 21 kids and parenting podcasts, including the number one kids’ podcast, Bedtime Explorers, which has achieved 17 million downloads, and the parenting platform Babyology and its podcasts Feed, Play, Love and The Parent Panel.
Kinderling’s suite of audio content will join LiSTNR’s existing Kids and Family podcast series including The Beanies, Zero Waste Baby and Birth, Baby & Beyond, among others.
Spotify taking down comedy content over dispute
Spotify has removed hundreds of comedians’ albums and work from the platform amid a dispute over royalties and copyright.
Global rights administration company, Spoken Giants, is working with a group of comedians to negotiate being paid when their work is played on platforms like Spotify, SiriusXM, Pandora and YouTube.
In response, Spotify removed work from performers such as Tiffany Haddish, Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Hart and John Mulaney.
The comedian’s aim is to collect royalties for underlying composition copyrights of spoken-word media in a manner similar manner to the way a songwriter would be paid for their music and lyrics.
This story was originally reported by the Wall Street Journal.
