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-Die Media Analysis Working Group (agma) has the current ones Reach data for digital audio offers released. Still at the top Spotify With more than 168 million sessions per month in the first quarter of 2022, followed by the live stream of WDR2which increased to 14.7 million sessions and thus even SWR3 passed. Deutschlandfunk and 1Live follow in the next places. The biggest percentage winner is bigFM Berlin with a plus of 250 percent, but also the new station Antenna North Rhine-Westphalia increased significantly: In the first quarter, Antenne NRW was able to increase its digital reach 376.812 Sessions per month, almost tripling compared to the fourth quarter of 2021. The total offer of Antenne NRW Online Audio, which includes the additional web-only offers of the Cologne broadcaster, even comes to 417,525 sessions.

Spotify
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-A new Spotify-Podcast deals with the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos. “Memento Moria – What is happening today at Europe’s borders” appears from June 9th. The journalist Sham Jaff and the reporter Franziska Grillmeier deal with the reasons for the failed European asylum policy. They travel to Lesvos to bring the complex situation closer to the listeners. Every Thursday it’s about the conditions at Europe’s borders and how it could come to this. The advertising blocks will be in the documentary format NGOswho support refugees, provided pro bono.

Climate Crime
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–Audio Now meanwhile tries to link the topics Climate catastrophe and true crime: In the new podcast “Climate Crime” want Louisa Dellert and Markus Ehrlich track down “the most shocking crimes against humans, animals and nature” in a total of twelve episodes, as they say. They talk about the fate of the victims, name and confront the perpetrators, reflect on their own behavior and also have the question of possible solutions in mind. “Our goal is to tell as many people as possible about all of these crimes and encourage them to do the same to question their own consumption behavior“, says Louisa Dellert. “Hopefully that’s the only way something will finally change and the exploitation will stop.” “Climate Crime” is a production of Audio Alliance and bright + bolder media.

We are the Freeses
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-Die NDR-2 comedy series “We are the Freeses” says goodbye – in the context of a Event-Tags. For Friday, the station has the “NDR 2 Bye-Bye-Freeses-Freitag” called out to say goodbye to the characters Grandma Rosi, Bianca, Svenni and Heiko. The four invite you to a two-hour breakfast from 7 a.m. in the NDR foyer on Rothenbaumchaussee. NDR 2 broadcasts live – including the last three episodes of “Wir sind die Freeses”, all of which come in XXL format. The comedy has been nominated for the German Radio Prize since September 2014 and twice since then. After almost eight years and almost 1700 episodes, the story of the family is over NDR-2 editor Andreas Altenburg but said: “I’m glad that we can end the series at its peak without the first ones saying: ‘It used to be somehow better’. My dream has always been to celebrate Svenni’s 18th birthday in the series Now the boy is of legal age and the family is having children. Everything has been achieved, nothing more is possible.” Incidentally, all the characters were voiced by Altenburg himself.

Bauer Media Group
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-Die Bauer Media Audio has the Acquisition of Media Capital Rádios in Portugal closed. The step also marks Bauer’s entry into the Portuguese market and thus expands its audio business nine countries. The group now holds four of the ten most listened to radio stations in Portugal. “We have tremendous admiration and respect for the quality of the brands we have acquired and strongly believe in the potential of Media Capital Rádios – now trading as Bauer Media Audio Portugal – and the Portuguese radio market in general, today and in the future.” , like that Richard DawkinsPresident Audio of the Bauer Media Group. Mario FerreiraChairman of Grupo Media Capital: “The Bauer Media Group has extensive experience in this sector and we are sure that they will contribute to the radio group’s growth trajectory and thus continue the work started by Media Capital.”