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• Podcast Movement announced the first set of confirmed sessions for the event in Dallas next month. And - Podnews can add news of one more speaker: none other than the “podfather”, Adam Curry, who is returning to Podcast Movement thanks to SoundStack. The co-inventor of podcasting, the Podcast Index and Podcasting 2.0 will be on the company’s stage on August 19th.
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• Podcast Movement announced the winners of the PM25 Scholarship Class, with nearly fifty up-and-coming podcasters who are attending with complimentary passes.
• TIME released its TIME100 Creators list for 2025 - and nearly 50% of the honorees host podcasts, a PR company acting for Spotify tell us, which is apparently evidence of “Spotify's place at the center of podcasting” (though many of the shows aren’t actually theirs). The list includes Mel Robbins, Alex Cooper, Steven Bartlett, Joe Rogan, and “Hawk Tuah” girl Haliey Welch.

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