The Radio industry Association of America (RIAA), the 74 year-old trade association of the record industry, has released its 2025 year-end revenue report. It delivers a concise review of total recorded music revenue and its components. Continue Reading
Audio/video streaming, podcasting and analytics company StreamGuys has started a new audio advertising service called SGcreative. Partnering in this venture is Nueva Network, a media company which specializes in targeting the U.S. Hispanic market. Nueva reaches about 600 radio stations… Continue Reading
— A unified experience (iHeartMedia)
— Celebration (Canadian Junos) Continue Reading
The ChatGPT advertising platform has reached a notable milestone: $100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars) in annualized revenue. OpenAI launched that ad platform as a test in February, and the proprietors are presumably pleased with the quick start. Continue Reading
Research studies abound, measuring who listens to podcasts and how they listen. Much of that output is organized and presented by eminent audio researcher and Sounds Profitable partner Tom Webster. Such it is with the recently released presentation The Last Quarter: Understanding America’s Podcast Holdouts. The information in this package derives from a 2025 survey (“The Podcast Landscape 2025”) of over five thousand respondents. Continue Reading
New phases and hidden risks — two podcast thinkers lay out divergent visions of podcasting.
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Attorney and digital media expert David Oxenford has published his annual cautionary note to broadcasters regarding April Fools tomfoolery. There is a law against announcing a fake emergency. Continue Reading
Apple developed the HTTP Live Streaming video protocol in February, and released it publicly via the March 24 update of the company’s iOS operating system (v. 26.4). The program allows podcast creators to create high-quality video podcast episodes directly within… Continue Reading
– Catch-up (Paul Riismandel))
– Seats at the table (E.B. Moss)
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Broadcasting and entertainment giant Audacy has released the latest in a seemingly unending streaming of industry podcast endorsements. The thesis of this one is that the expansion of podcasting is understated; the audio category isn’t only dominating — podcasts are… Continue Reading
iHeartMedia is trumpeting a partnership with TikTok which introduced a new album release protocol combining the strengths of each platform. The initiative aspires to create “a new blueprint for artist launches moving forward.” The alliance brings fans into the album… Continue Reading
In September 2024 we reported a startling case of fraudulent streaming, when a guileful North Carolina musician named Michael Smith was accused of fraudulently streaming AI-created songs and dishonestly collecting royalties. We now learn a judge has determined the consequences/ Continue Reading