A new podcast about NASA’s Apollo 13 mission became the #1 documentary podcast on Apple Podcasts with over 100,000 downloads.
 
The show is produced by Forensic Engineer Sean Brady and podcast agency Wavelength Creative.
 
Saving Apollo 13 is the incredible story of NASA's Apollo 13 mission, as told by Sean Brady, and the feats of human ingenuity that saved the lives of the 3 men aboard.
 

Screen production company Fremantle Media has entered the audio space, teaming up with Acast to produce a range of scripted and unscripted content.

The first production, a true crime podcast called Chasing Charlie, will be released next week.

SEN is claiming bragging rights for two programs following the release of the latest Australian Podcast Ranker.
 
SEN’s Breakfast with Garry Lyon & Tim Watson is the number one breakfast show in Melbourne and Gerard Whateley’s ‘Whateley’ show the number one mornings show in Australia with over 1.1 million podcast downloads between them in the past month.
 

Podtrac have released their weekly US podcast data for the week of May 4 – 10, showing only a slight increase of audience numbers over the previous week.
 
The week was flat for downloads and up 1% for audience, but since January this year weekly downloads have increased by 25% and audience is up by 9%.

Comedic duo Matt Okine and Alex Dyson have returned to the world of audio to serve up Australia’s first on-demand breakfast show, Matt & Alex -  All Day Breakfast, available weekday mornings on Southern Cross Austereo’s PodcastOne Australia.
 

Bedtime Explorers, from Kinderling Kids Radio has been nominated for a Webby Award in the Apps, Mobile and Voice - Health, Fitness & Lifestyle category.

The nomination means Bedtime Explorers has been recognised as one of the five best programs in the world in the category of Health, Fitness & Lifestyle.

The category will have two winners, one voted by a panel, and one will be a public vote.

Bedtime Explorers has also been honoured in the Podcasts: Family & Kids Category.

Australia’s longest-serving crime reporter, John Silvester, is taking listeners on a deep dive through his 40 years of dealing with the nation’s most dangerous criminals in Naked City, the new podcast for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, which launches today.
 

In 2018 Food Bytes moved from being a newspaper column to become a weekly podcast, and host, Sarah Patterson has now marked the 100^th show with special guest, AFL legend Dermott Brereton.

NOVA Entertainment has launched the trivia-based, play-along podquiz, Quizicle All-Stars.
 
Hosted by comedian Lindsay Webb, Quizicle All Stars features five questions with five seconds to respond, followed by a special guest who then provides their responses and you see how you went against them.
 
The podcast covers a range of topics from sport, music, general knowledge, entertainment and pop culture.
 

ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia has launched a new podcast providing informative and entertaining advice on how to navigate family life and keep kids sane while living in isolation. 
 
Presented by Brisbane 97.3 FM’s newsreader Monique Dews and Breakfast co-host Robin Bailey, Keeping Up With Corona, features the latest family-related Corona news, expert discussions covering a range of subjects, and real-life listener experiences, as Australia locks down.