Here are five podcasts that you might find enjoyable, interesting, curious, and/or inspiring. If you host, publish, or listen to a podcast that you’d like to recommend for this new recurring feature in RAIN, drop a line to kurt@accuradio.com. (For… Continue Reading
In the month of July, according to Nielsen, in the U.S., streaming channels accounted for 34.8% of all views, for the first time edging ahead of cable TV, which had a 34.4% share of viewing. Meanwhile, broadcast TV was trailing… Continue Reading
In a weekend posting on the NPR.com website, the broadcaster looked back on its 17 years of activity in the podcasting space, including the podcast directory it launched in August 2005. As the article, “Nearly forgotten today, alt.NPR was a… Continue Reading
Bauer Media Audio announced today that is has launched new, premium subscription audio services in Norway, RadioPlay.no, combining a commercial-free version of the live radio experience with quality on-demand content and new levels of user choice and personalization. The service… Continue Reading
While other ad-supported online brands like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest showed weak Q2 year-over-year growth rates in ad revenues, Amazon showed healthy growth, CNBC reported yesterday. According to CNBC, “While the bulk of its business comes from e-commerce and cloud… Continue Reading
Stockholm-based Spotify announced its Q2 2022 financial performance yesterday, beating its guidance on all key measures except gross margin and profitability, with global Monthly Active Users up 19% year-over-year (from 365 million to 422 million listeners), and quarterly revenues up… Continue Reading
Australia-based futurist and noted public speaker James Cridland poses an intriguing question on his Podnews website this week, speculating that the late comedian and actor Robin Williams may deserve credit for being the world’s first podcaster. Cridland’s argument is based… Continue Reading
Almost certainly the highest cost line item for U.S. music-based online radio services is the royalty that such services pay for rights to the sound recordings they play, with those rates set every five years in a tribunal conducted by… Continue Reading
Resound, a new editing app that uses AI to automatically removes stuttering and pauses from podcasts, has announced that it has raised $1.35M in pre-seed funding. Their website explains, “A boutique podcast production company in Louisville, KY by the name… Continue Reading
Using recent data from Podsights, Edison Research, and Nielsen, Westwood One exec Pierre Bouvard has issued a new report making a case for podcast advertisers to spread their ad buys across a greater number of podcasts to increase their campaign… Continue Reading
Royalty collection and distribution agency SoundExchange announced this week (press release here) that is has filed suit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against Slacker, Inc. and its parent company LiveOne, Inc. to recover… Continue Reading
Triton Digital’s Podcast Reports list the Top Podcasts in a particular country or region, as measured by Triton’s Podcast Metrics measurement service. The top ranked podcast overall is Dateline NBC (NBCUniversal News Group) (see illustration below), followed by the CBC’s… Continue Reading