Podcast Radio broadcasting in London
Podcast Radio, a venture to broadcast a 24-hour podcast schedule on DAB in London, is up and running. The project was introduced at RAIN Summit Europe last November. Continue Reading
Author: Brad Hill
Instreamatic adds Federated Media to its voice ad exchange
Instreamatic is announcing a partnership with Federated Media. In the deal Federated will sell Instreamatic’s interactive voice advertising opportunities to advertisers. Federated’s inventory will be added to Instreamatic’s voice ad exchange. Continue Reading
Podcast Movement Evolutions: Diversifying its audience and content
Podcast Movement Evolutions, an addition to the annual Podcast Movement conference and an expansion of it, was produced last week in Los Angeles. The event expanded on the six-year-old Podcast Movement summer gathering, offering three tickets levels and four content tracks for different types of attendee. Continue Reading
“Staples Connect” launches with Spreaker partnership for in-store podcast studios
Staples, the office supply chain, recently announced Staples Connect, and interesting reinvention of some stores to include co-working spaces, community gathering spaces, and podcasting facilities. Spreaker announced its launch partnership, offering discounted access to its hosting and distribution platform. Continue Reading
December streaming, and flashback 10 years of RAIN tracking of Triton Digital Webcast Metrics
RAIN has been tracking Triton Digital’s monthly Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker for more than 10 years, starting in September 2009. Looking back to that Ranker, we see a couple of interesting things — a trip down memory lane in the growth of streaming. Continue Reading
“More speakers than screens” — EGTA preps for World Radio Day with audio stats
European trade organization EGTA, which serves radio/TV advertisers, is promoting World Radio Day (February 13) with materials that advocate for sonic branding. As part of this, the organization has declared 2020 as “The Year of Sonic” and has marshaled some interesting statistics and audio samples. Continue Reading
Westwood One asked advertisers about podcasting. Results are forward-looking.
Last week we poked around a public Westwood One podcast survey, and reported our impressions. Today, Westwood One releases the results, in both an executive summary format, and a detailed Powerpoint PDF. One of the most interesting aspects of the PDF is that it relates dozens of verbatim predictions about podcasting revenue growth. Continue Reading
Sony Music Entertainment: Another podcast deal, arguably the biggest, reinforces Sony presence
Sony Music has forged a content development partnership with Somethin’ Else, an indie British podcast production company. The press release lists Sony’s contributions to be content expertise, marketing, and monetization. We don’t know whether Sony has taken an ownership stake in Somethin’ Else. We do know Sony is moving fast in podcasting. Continue Reading
Forbes lists the (very) top-earning podcasters
Only the top five, making this an ultra-short list for Forbes. Still, interesting. If you’re guessing Joe Rogan for the top spot, you’re right, but #2 might surprise you. Continue Reading
James Cridland’s International Radio Trends: Times of London gets into radio; Brexit radio clips; more
by James Cridland
A weekly column from the preeminent Radio Futurologist. THIS WEEK: Coverage of the European Radio Show, a podcast collection of Brexit radio clips, and much more. Continue Reading
Westwood One opens Podcast Executive Study survey
Westwood One is running an open survey to gather data which will inform the company’s upcoming Podcast Executive Study. It is a B2B approach that any podcaster could take a run through, but is really intended for mainly professional ventures familiar with the advertising ecosystem of podcasting. Continue Reading
Pocket Casts intros curated lists: Guest List and Network Highlight
We got a note from Pocket Casts that two in-app discovery features we’ve been waiting for became active today. They are Guest List (favorite podcasts of a guest curator) and Network Highlight (a selection of one network’s catalog). We checked them out. Continue Reading