The Gracies award program, honoring women in media, has announced and listed the 2023 winners. Click through for the list of winners and corresponding producers in the National Digital Media category. Continue Reading
— How They See It (Sounds Profitable)
— Breather (Dominick Milano)
— Change At The Top (Entravision)
— Clearing the Myst (CoHost)
— Learnings (Arielle Nissenblatt)
— Cutback Clouds (LAist Studios)
In Nielsen’s recently released Audio Today 2023 bundle of research, we are not surprised to learn that AM/FM listening remains top of the time-spent audio sources. Among all U.S. adults 18 years and older, radio reaches 91% percent. The domination is decisive. Click for graphs. Continue Reading
Spotify will launch a third subscription tier to its legacy two-tier access, introducing a “Supremium” plan above its current subscription and free-listening options. This according the Ashley Carman’s reporting at Bloomberg — and CEO Daniel Ek promised it during the Q1 earnings call. We look at the rumored benefits, and compare to competitors. Featuring RAIN’s Spotify user growth chart. Continue Reading
Triton Digital announced its acquisition of Manadge, and advertising intelligence and revenue management platform. Manadge offers publishers management of sales inputs from all demand-side partners. Continue Reading
— Driving Success(Veritonic)
— Riveting (AdvertiseCast)
— On The Move (Rob Greenlee)
Edison Research interviews 1,003 Gen Z respondents (13-24) in the U.S. to field the Gen Z Podcast Report 2023. The effort is sponsored by SXM Media, and we covered the teaser report from SXM a couple of weeks ago (here). Now, Edison releases the full detail — 45 pages of Z-specific metrics around podcast listening, discovery, acceptance of advertising, and more. Continue Reading
— Driving Success(Veritonic)
— Riveting (AdvertiseCast)
— On The Move (Rob Greenlee)
A quick glance at the interactive version of Triton Digital’s US Podcast Report for May (more exactly, May 1-28) shows two notables — in a mostly stable ranking one network (NPR) and one podcast (CounterClock) stand out. However, the top 100 podcasts remain identical (with minor position jumping) as the previous month. Click for details and links. Continue Reading
Katz Digital Audio is trumpeting a new agreement with Audiomob, a mobile gaming ad company. Katz’s ad sales vertical will sell advertising in Audiomob’s in-game audio ad technology. Katz markets as “the largest digital audio network,” claiming a reach of 230+-million consumers monthly. Continue Reading
— Deep Analysis (Eric Nuzum)
— Flipping (Rockie Thomas)
— Is it AI? (Paul McCartney)