RAIN Notes: September 17
— Another Pivot (Will Page)
— SIRI Split (Forbes) Continue Reading
News
Former Pacific Content colleagues launch Sequel (with a capital S)
Andy Sheppard and Tori Allen, both former showrunners at Canadian podcast production company Pacific Content, have joined forces to launch Sequel, which in name and intent provides a similar service as Pacific Content. Click for the detailed history with links. Continue Reading
RAIN Notes: September 16
— Annoyances Solved (Hyperfixed)
— Seeking 2.0 (Podcamp)
— Live At Scale (The Acquired)
— At The Top (Cathy Csukas) Continue Reading
True Crime podcasts help crack true crimes (Edison / audiochuck)
In a lovely turnaround, it turns out that the venerable True Crime podcast category helps solve the crimes it documents. We learn this in a new study from Edison Research and podcast network audiochuck. Audiochuck publishes one of genre’s most recognized titles, Crime Junkie. In an unusual angle in podcast research, the company evangelizes the podcast’s social values, not its benefit to advertisers. Continue Reading
BMI takes legal action in royalty conflict with SiriusXM
“Years of negotiations.” That’s how performing rights organization (PRO) BMI describes its patience and perseverance in royalty dealings with SiriusXM. With patience and perseverance evidently expired, BMI filed a legal action to determine what it calls “fair and appropriate fees.” Click for details — all from BMI’s perspective. No public word from SiriusXM at posting time. Continue Reading
AI songs + fraudulent streaming + millions in royalties = FBI/DOJ seeking 60 years in prison
It had to happen, and possibly has happened before. Now it has definitely happened with severe potential consequences. An guileful North Carolina musician named Damian Williams has been accused of fraudulently streaming AI-created songs and dishonestly collecting royalties. We learn this from the United States Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. It’s no small-scale gambit. Click for the impressively corrupt details. Continue Reading
RAIN Notes: September 10
RAIN Notes: September 9
— Long For The Win (Bloomberg)
— Big Advice (Radio Creators) Continue Reading
Content preferences, discovery methods, and attitudes of podcast listeners (Sounds Profitable #2)
In the second day of our two-part coverage of The Podcast Landscape 2024 from Sounds Profitable, we learn about consumer content choices, discovery methods, and attitudes of non-listeners. Click for details, graphs, and link to the original. Continue Reading
RAIN Notes: September 5
— Tying the knot (Quest Global)
— Pricing Pain (StreamYard)
— Climbing that hill (DWNLOAD Media) Continue Reading
Podcasting breaks 50% barrier, reaching a majority of American adults (Sounds Profitable)
“Podcasts now reach 53% of Americans 18+ every month – the first report of monthly consumption reaching the majority of adults in the US.”
That is the #1 takeaway from The Podcast Landscape, 2024, released by Sounds Profitable as its largest survey ever, and claimed to be the largest publicly available study of podcast consumption in the U.S. We grab hold of the first several sections and plumb them for knowledge. Click for details, graphics, and a link to the original.
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Al Michaels went AI at the Olympics. Radio DJs don’t love the idea, but 20% would do it. (Jacobs Media)
While watching the recently completed 2024 Summer Olympics, we didn’t realize that the nearly ubiquitous voice of Al Michaels, heard round the clock, was not the physical (and presumably sleepy) Al Michaels. But while studying a new survey research deck from Jacobs Media this morning, we encountered “AI Al Michaels.” Jacobs surveyed on-air talent to discover their attitudes about AI generally, and the specific use in the Olympics. The result is part of a 66-page study. Continue Reading