Three excellent new podcasts! Influence: Exploring the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Advertising: This interesting and accessible podcast about advertising has just returned for its second season. It is a branded podcast produced by file-storage and sharing service… Continue Reading
Three new podcasts to recommend! Dear Governor – Maybe we shouldn’t call this a True Crime podcast — it’s more like a True Innocence show, or a True Redemption podcast. It centers on Jarvis Jay Masters, a condemned prisoner who… Continue Reading
Three new podcasts! Yang Speaks -Ex-presidential candidate Andrew Yang has partnered with the Cadence13 network for a weekly podcast. It’s mainly a spotlight for Yang, even though his campaign is over, to promote his ideas, prominent among which is the… Continue Reading
Three new podcasts! Hope Through History – Hosted by New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham, this production is a five-part series examining five historic and critical turning points in American history. The first episode is “FDR and the Great Depression,” including… Continue Reading
A Belgian bed-and-breakfast called Le Coffee Ride produces a charming conversational podcast to enjoy while drinking your own feshly-brewed cup. // The Harris School of Public Policy makes a charming atypical politics podcast with an intellectual flavor. // From marketing… Continue Reading
Pod Drop is a podcast for discovering new podcasts. Sounds “meta,” right? It’s a five-minute flash briefing twice a week, each episode showcasing three recently launched (“dropped”) podcasts. Take a listen!
In the latest episode of On the Mic, an industry podcast produced by Ad Results Media, CEO Marshall Williams discusses how podcast listening has time-shifted away from the morning commute while maintaining engagement levels. Continue Reading
In the aftermath of the Spotify’s exclusive deal with Joe Rogan, and its tectonic effect on the podsphere, We are seeing anonymously sourced reports from Apple that the company is building executive-level staff to manage original podcast development. The source… Continue Reading
Investment house Goldman Sachs released a research note predicting the fortunes of the global music industry, from concerts to streaming. It’s a bad-news / good news sort of thing. everything down (a lot), then up (even more). Continue Reading
Entercom-owned RADIO.COM released a raft of encouraging listening numbers following a mobile app update. Listening increased in March month-over-month. Even sports programming saw gains, though no actual games were played. The mobile app has been updated for better content discovery and ad targeting. Continue Reading
Podtrac released its monthly ranking of top 20 podcasts for April. (See below.) Stability governs the upper portion, as the top six shows held their places from the previous month. New to the list in April: The Ron Burgundy Podcast, produced by iHeartRadio, taking the #16 spot. NPR is the most-represented publisher in this list. Continue Reading
If there would ever been an indicator of podcastings’ maturity as a media category, or a podcaster emerging as a media mogul, it is today’ blockbuster news that Joe Rogan has signed an exclusive arrangement with Spotify, worth $100-million. It’s… Continue Reading