Pre-COVID, podcasting was one of the fastest-growing media channels on the planet.
 
COVID’s physical disconnection has only accelerated demand for its uniquely intimate online connection, and Australian listens are up almost fourfold (Triton Aus., Sep ‘20 vs Oct ‘19).
 
Mamamia’s flagship show Mamamia Out Loud is reporting record listeners, up 54% (Omny Studio, Feb year on year), and is set to LIVE tour again this spring.
 

New podcasts released this week include Gladys Berejiklian on Lunch with Lee, Mamamia's new finance podcast for women, and from MakeShift, In the Making, that examines the mental health benefits of creativity

Mamamia is expanding its podcast range again with a new offering ‘The Undone.’
 
Co-hosted by local talent Emily Vernem and Lucy Neville, who share an inner city flat and a workplace in Mamamia, the podcast will candidly dissect life’s big issues from a twenty-something’s perspective.
 
From sex and dating ‘garbage fires,’ to politics, money, identity and health, The Undone is made by Gen Zs at Mamamia, for Gen Zs.
 

Nova Entertainment has appointed Rachel Corbett as Head of Podcasts and Digital Content, a key role in NOVA’s strategic investment in digital audio.

68% of women say nothing could have prepared them for being a parent so a new podcast tries to help.
 
Mamamia has created a new podcast, Me After You, mainly for women with kids under four who may be very familiar with the question, “Who the hell am I now that I am a Mum?”
 

Gordon’s Gin and Mamamia have partnered to bring something new to home entertainment: a trivia podcast to play along with friends or on your own, Quizzish.
 
Just the tonic if the pub in pub quiz was never really your thing, or if it was, but the pub’s not currently open during the pandemic.
 
Hosted by Kelly McCarren, Quizzish is Mamamia’s new weekly trivia podcast where two rivals go head-to-head to determine who can become the Quizzish champion and listeners can play along at home too.
 

Mamamia is launching a new consumer podcast, Social Squad, to take listeners behind the feeds of some of Australia’s most powerful influencers, and hosted by influencer and former reality star, Tully Smyth.

Social Squad series one will give listeners behind-the-feeds access to influential women like Elle Ferguson, Flex Mami, Amy Maree Castano, Laura Byrne and Sara Crampton, each disrupting the media landscape on their own terms.

Off the back of its success with daily news podcast, The Quicky, dropping at 6am every morning and recently passing 2 million listens, Mamamia has announced a second daily show, ‘The Spill’ which will launch with partner Nescafé Gold this coming Monday 22^nd July, dropping every afternoon in time for the commute home.
 
The Spill will be Australia’s first daily entertainment podcast, an irreverent take on everything entertainment, every day, designed for the wind down at the end of the day.
 

Mamamia has hired News Corp leader, Holly Yates, as Head of Sales for New South Wales.

The podcast collaboration between Westpac and Mamamia is continuing with the launch of new series ‘The Split’.

Following the success of the award-winning pregnancy podcast ‘Hello, Bump’, The Split will support, inform and guide women through what can be one of the most isolating times of their lives, separation and divorce.

Hosted by comedian and writer Mandy Nolan, herself a twice-divorced mother of five, The Split will be the friend in the ear of every woman trying to survive separation.