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• JAR Audio has announced the third edition of the Emerging Women in Podcasting Pilot Competition. The winner gets a professionally produced audio podcast pilot episode, with full support from JAR’s talented team. The winner last year was Half Betty.
• The Daily Wire has announced a new advertising partnership with Perplexity, an AI-driven “answer engine”. Ben Shapiro will use the tool to get “real-time context and facts” about issues he is covering.
• In Mumbai, India’s biggest podcasting conclave and awards, Podmasters 2025, ends early bird entries later today. (You’ve still eight hours left!) Public voting starts on Friday; the awards event is later this year.

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