Love Sport Radio announces today an expansion to nationwide-UK broadcasting and an expanded programming slate to attract new regional audiences. Love Sport has been covering London with its DAB signal. Now it is acquiring Panjab Radio’s slot in the Sound… Continue Reading
ART19, the podcast technology and advertiser services company, has announced an ambitious and acquisitive move into South Korea, a country with 51-million people who are more engaged with podcasts than any other national population in the world. One acquisition, four exclusive agreements, and a new company. Continue Reading
Spotify’s “2019 Wrapped” website production for Premium subscribers is as fun and informative as ever, even more expansive because it wraps not only 2019 but the “teens” decade of 2013-2019, with a beautifully fluid user experience. We test, analyze, and enjoy it. Continue Reading
The Canadian version of the streaming radio app has exceeded a key milestone: one-million downloads. Radioplayer Canada is a property of Corus Entertainment, a major Canadian radio/media group. Nearly 500 Canadian radio stations have streams on the multilingual app. Continue Reading
Student discounts to streaming services are not new, and classical specialist Idagio is leveraging that user acquisition strategy. The pitch is based on the idea that classical music fosters relaxation, brain benefits, better sleep, and lower stress — in time for final exams. Continue Reading
British audio production house and consultancy Listen Entertainment has renewed an agreement with leading audiobook marketplace Audible.com to produce a follow-up in the “A Grown-Up Guide” audio franchise. The project is an interesting combination of multi-episode podcast and audiobook. Continue Reading
Podspec: Detailing the podcast space. In this inaugural Podspec, we look at the top daily news shows to survey their attributes including length, use of music, use of pre-roll, mid-roll, and post-roll ads, and their ad loads. Continue Reading
The Reuters Institute has published its foundational Digital News Report 2019. It mentions podcasting 186 times. A key point is a so-called Pivot to Audio, which describes how phones and smart speakers are fostering the growth in podcast news shows. Continue Reading
Targetspot sent us a note that the company has hired David Sasson to enhance the company’s U.S. sales presence, focused on the northeast. Sasson has filled executive sales positions at IGA worldwide, Tribune Publishing Company, and Nexstar Digital. Continue Reading
Stream listening slipped less than one percent month-over-month in August, according to the Triton Digital Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker. Pandora, leader of the pack, dropped two percent from July, losing a bit of listener activity for the fourth straight month. Number two-ranked iHeartRadio gained by nine percent, after losing nine percent in July. Click through for historical tracking. Continue Reading
In a completion of an initiative started earlier this year Radionomy has announced a merger with Shoutcast, effectively shutting down the former and offering producers migration to an upper tier of Shoutcast called Shoutcast for Business. Continue Reading
Ad-tech company Instreamatic, which specializes in responsive audio advertising, is announcing a new product release called Continuous Voice Dialogue Marketing. As the name implies, this tech layer enables some degree of back-and-forth between listener and advertiser, and the resulting customization can follow the user across platforms. A case study appeared in Adweek. Continue Reading