Westwood One is announcing today that it has obtained exclusive representation to advertisers of the second season of In the Dark, an investigative crime podcast. The APM-produced show won a Peabody Award in its first season, and has served over 12-million downloads.
The Triton Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker has seen Spotify’s listening metric streak upward since the music service joined the Ranker in January, 2015. Three years later, in January of this year, Spotify overtook Pandora for the first time. Continue Reading
Tokyo FM is the flagship radio station of Japan FM (39 stations), and is making a joint partnership announcement with AdsWizz. The deal brings AdsWiz technology to a new “Wiz Radio” app, and appoints Tokyo FM the sales rep for the AdWave digital audio marketplace in Japan. Continue Reading
The full results of Jacobs Media annual Techsurvey are not released yet, but All Access got hold of one data point pertaining to podcast consumption. For the third straight year, weekly podcast listening nudged upward to 23%. That’s a slightly great share than the 21% of last year, and the 20% of 2016. Many respondents in the Jacobs survey are radio listeners, putting an interesting angle into the results. Continue Reading
Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of Spotify, has often been quoted taking the long view of the streaming music industry, and the destiny of his company. Today is a milestone in Spotify’s business history, as SPOT begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Memorializing the moment, Ek posted a letter on his company’s internal blog. “We are only in the second inning,” he said. Continue Reading
Today marks the launch of Clipisode, a group video creation app which makes it easy to create crowdsourced group video podcasts. Though not marketed explicitly to radio or podcasters, Clipisode seems ideal for engaging listeners on a parallel platform, and was tested by radio DJs and podcasters. Continue Reading
EmpireStreaming, which owns the Live365 internet radio platform, has partnered with ad-tech company AdsWizz to bring dynamic ad insertion and digital audio management to its client base of small and mid-size webcasters. Continue Reading
AdsWizz announces today an integration with NextRegie, the advertising agency of NextRadioTV in France, to sell digital audio ad inventory programmatically. NextRadioTV owns and operates radio and TV stations. The thrust of this deal is to market podcast ads programmatically. Continue Reading
ABC Radio has announced that it will launch START HERE, a daily morning news podcast, entering a creative niche that is starting to get crowded. It will be a 20-minute show hosted by Brad Mielke and leverages ABC Radio’s deep news resources. Continue Reading
One day after a blizzarding storm dumped feet of snow on the northeast, the RAIN Podcast Business Summit took place at New World Stages in Manhattan, where over 22 speakers and 320 attendees gathered to chart the show’s theme: “The Path to a Billion Dollar Industry.” Continue Reading
Pandora has announced its acquisition of AdsWizz, as the largest music streaming service in the U.S. is set to take over a key digital audio ad-tech company. Continue Reading
In a major addition to its growing portfolio of hosted clients, podcast tech company ART19 has announced that over 100 NBC-owned podcasts are moving to its platform. Specific networks include NBC Sports, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, Oxygen and SYFY. Continue Reading