Global music rights expert Deborah Mannis-Gardner shared her insights about the key facts of podcast licensing with RAIN. This post breaks down the basics of licensing music for your show. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web. Over the past several days, Spotify was at the center of some announcements, updates, and rumors. Here’s the roundup. Continue Reading
Pandora has been launching new versions of its audio service for mobile and Mac, and now it has a development in wearables. This week, the company unveiled a standalone app for the Apple Watch. The app means that users can listen to Pandora content on-the-go without their phones. Continue Reading
Google Assistant can now use a Sonos speaker as its default hardware. Sonos hardware received updates this week that will allow those devices to be the primary player for requests of the voice assistant. Continue Reading
Podtrac released its chart of the top 20 podcasts for January. The month displayed a shift toward news and politics programming. It also included shows that publish multiple times a day. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: A rallying cry for indie podcast support. Spotify Awards releases finalists. Beware the bootleg podcast. Continue Reading
Boomplay Music has partnered with MUSO for an effort to reduce piracy in Africa. The streaming service is owned by China-based Transsnet Music Limited but focuses on listeners in African countries. Continue Reading
iHeartMedia has entered a partnership with Flatiron Books to launch a publishing imprint. The new operation is called Stuff You Should Read: An iHeartBook and it will begin with four books inspired by curiosity podcasts from the iHeartPodcast Network. Continue Reading
CD Baby is ending a major segment of its operation. The company announced that it will close its online retail store on March 31. After that date, the retail store will transition into a download portal. Continue Reading
Nielsen released a special edition of its Total Audience Report focused on streaming media. From the overall survey audience, 38% of participants subscribed to one paid audio platform, compared with 37% not subscribing to any. The balance shifted across age brackets. Continue Reading
Susan Wojcicki wrote a blog post to mark YouTube’s fifteen’s birthday. The video platform was registered as a website on February 14, 2005, and the current YouTube CEO shared a few figures in her post looking forward to the company’s next goals. Continue Reading
Indian telecom Reliance Industries is putting more money into its streaming music operation. The company made an investment of $19.6 million into JioSaavn. The audio platform was created in March 2018. Continue Reading