Coronovirus is a rare example of a global #1 news topic. How is podcasting responding to the appetite for information? A breakout by time period, region, and category. Continue Reading
Podcast sales, consulting, and content development company TPX has reached agreement with Apostrophe Podcast Company for exclusive marketing and sales. Apostrophe is Terry mostly-family business which currently sports a four-show portfolio. Continue Reading
Podcast analytics and attribution company Chartable has plunged into the expanding pool of lists, announcing today the Chartable Top 200. The company is headlining the new product as “The podcast industry’s first global, weekly rankings.” We get details from CEO Dave Zohrob. Continue Reading
Montreal-based media and technology company Stingray is entering the Canadian podcast market with a 30% acquisition of The Podcast Exchange (TPX), Canada’s leading podcast ad sales and production house. The announcements hints that Stingray might develop a portfolio of wholly owned-and-operated podcasts. Continue Reading
Lydia Polgreen who has been Editor in Chief of HuffPost since 2017, is moving to Gimlet Media as head of content, the Daily Beast and other sources report. It’s an interesting choice, and an interesting move for someone with sterling career in traditional journalism. Continue Reading
The 4th Annual RAIN Podcast Business Summit took over New World Stages in midtown Manhattan yesterday, as a sellout crowd gathered for knowledge and networking around podcasting’s key business topics. The event is the only conference focused exclusively on the business side of podcasting, and is part of RAIN’s global event series. Continue Reading
We knew that the New York Times was interested in buying Serial Productions, the podcast house which makes Serial, the most successful true crime podcast franchise of the last six years. We reported such in January. Now we learn from the Times itself that it is exclusively discussing the acquisition with Serial, according to Ben Smith, the new Media Columnist. There might be a discount. Continue Reading
Newsly released figures from My Podcast Review service by Daniel J. Lewis show that 47,000 new shows were introduced to Apple Podcasts in the past 30 days. Total number of shows? Over 900,000. Continue Reading
We received news today from Napster/Rhapsody thast BMW is bringing the global on-demand audio service into its cars in eight European countries. The service brags of 60-million tracks and 20,000 audiobooks. One interesting aspect of this is the apparent ease-of-use in getting and using the service. Continue Reading
The RAIN Podcast Business Summit is next Wednesday, 9am – 1pm. Click through for the infographic: Sessions, Speakers, Pics. Tickets are still available.
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Edison Research has broken out a Top Ten Podcast ranker, which measures podcast popularity among weekly podcast listeners. The ranker will be released quarterly, and will represent a rolling four-quarter average. This method smooths out irregularities such as quick-rise, quick-fall podcast flashes in the pan. Continue Reading
Stephanie Ruhle (MSNBC Anchor, NBC News Senior Business Correspondent, and host of the Modern Ruhles podcast) and Sarah van Mosel (Chief Revenue Officer, Stitcher), are among the newly added speakers at the 4th Annual RAIN Podcast Business Summit on March 4 in New York City. Click through for full roster. Continue Reading