At this week’s Podcast Movement Evolutions, Podnews editor James Cridland released some results of the recent Podnews Report Card 2022, which asks podcasters and listeners to rate and comment on platforms, apps, podcasting services, and directories according to several criteria. Today, the Podnews website spills out an enormous repository of survey results. Click for details and the link. Continue Reading
Jottings of note:
— Back in the Room (CES)
— Planning Ahead (She Podcasts)
— The How of HiRez (WIRED)
Jottings of note:
— Productive Breakage (Integr8 Research)
— Playlisting the Game (iHeartRadio)
— Executive Promotion (LiSTNR)
— The Stoop Steps Up (Radiotopia/PRX)
Jottings of note:
— Threading the Apple (Nathan Gathright)
— Selling the Score (Variety)
— Tracking (Edison Research / WNYC)
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Jottings of note:
— Social Finance to Social Audio (Audible)
— QR Resurgence (Podnews)
— Icy Warning (eMarketer)
— Diversity Hire (PRX)
A couple of audio consumption numbers got our attention this morning. They indicate that consumer listening might be shifting in unexpected ways as lifestyle habits are disrupted. The first number: AM/FM radio From Fred Jacobs, promoting the upcoming release of… Continue Reading
With podcasts on track to be commanding a cool billion dollars in ad revenue, the fight to be the leading listening platform will only be getting more intense. This year kicked off with multiple reports from difference sources with their own datasets about which service is the biggest. James Cridland of Podnews gave his take on how to reconcile the different assessments Continue Reading
The news that Spotify is acquiring both Gimlet Media and Anchor turned the podcast world on its head. Podnews, the daily briefing of podcasting developments published by James Cridland, collected several of the industry’s reactions. Continue Reading
In today’s edition of James Cridland’s Podnews, he makes an interesting comparison. Taking the just-published list of radio’s top advertisers (from Inside Radio), Cridland has the idea of comparing it with Magellan’s recent list of top 15 podcast advertisers Continue Reading
A new report from James Cridland’s Podnews reveals that algorithmic one-upmanship has entered the scene — podcasters can now buy their way to a high placement in Apple Podcast charts. We’re not certain it works, but it shouldn’t be surprising. Where there is an algorithm, there is an attempt to hijack it. Continue Reading