The state of podcast listening is very strong among the horoscope / zodiac crowd.

Obsessed with this stat from Veritonic: streams of horoscope podcasts increase 14% the week before mercury goes into retrograde.

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Cover art trends are fascinating🧐

We don’t *really* have this kind of uniformity in podcast artwork yet because creators don’t need to go through publishing houses in the same way writers do.

But I wonder if we’ll start to see themes and trends like this at some point…

New podcast merch alert!

- Thank you to Edison Research for sending me this 3/4 zip. Fashion! Statistics!
- Thank you to Laura Mayer for sending me this Tryhard Loser shirt celebrating her show, Shameless Acquisition Target.

The journey continues. My wardrobe *will* be all podcast-related by 2025🚀

Podcast cover art done right can really hook a potential listener.

Once they’re hooked, your show has gotta match the tone of the artwork. Or…you could lose them because they were promised one thing and it wasn’t delivered. We *do* judge podcasts based on their cover artwork.

Here are some of my favorite cover arts (and shows) of the week (via Apple’s New & Noteworthy).

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#Podcast people: You can’t win an Ambie Award unless you submit your show to the Ambie Awards!

The deadline is approaching (November 18th). More info here: theambies.awardsengine.com

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