Entercom released listening statistics about its growing podcast segment. It said in the release that its Podcast Network has seen “blockbuster” audience growth in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic. Continue Reading
PRS for Music, the British collection society, announced that it made a record April royalty distribution. The organization paid out £174 million (~$215 million) to its members for the month, up 15% from April 2018 distributions. Continue Reading
MIDiA Research has released load of metrics charting media and entertainment verticals. the info drop is prep for an upcoming webinar, “COVID-19 Impact on Entertainment Demand and Behaviours.” Continue Reading
Apple Music has launched a fund to help insure artists get paid during the COVID-19 pandemic. The platform is creating a $50 million advance royalty fund for paying artists through independent record labels. Continue Reading
We are gratified to see Stitcher’s blog post describing a session in RAIN’s 4th Annual Podcast Business Summit. The session was called, “Getting Podcast Measurement Right,” and was moderated by Stitcher Chief Revenue Officer Sarah van Mosel. Her panelists were… Continue Reading
Victoria Campoamor has joined Spotify as the streaming service’s new senior director of content operations and services. Prior to this position, she spent several years in posts with YouTube and Google. Continue Reading
Tencent may be focusing on Africa as the next market for its Joox streaming service. The platform is already very popular across Asia, including in some emerging markets such as Indonesia and Thailand. Continue Reading
RAIN Founder and CEO of AccuraRadio Kurt Hanson posts this special announcement about a new coronavirus resource from AccuRadio and RAIN News. We know there’s already a lot of news out there. The mission of Coronavirus Watch is to organize and synthesize information overload in a uniquely useful format. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web. Today’s items include a Google Podcasts AMA, some figures from a Russian streaming service, and more of the latest on how the music industry is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Continue Reading
Anchor, the streamlined podcast creation platform owned by Spotify, announced an update to its analytics tools. The service is adding more metrics for podcasters powered by Spotify. The new charts on the Anchor dashboard are based on data coming from Spotify streams rather than from download counts or from RSS feeds. Continue Reading
Owen Grover departed as Pocket Casts’ CEO at the start of the week, and is already taking the helm at a new operation. He has joined TrueFire Studios, an alliance of online music education companies, as its chief executive. Continue Reading
SoundCloud has been moving aggressively to support independent and grassroots artists in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Today, CEO Kerry Trainor authored a blog post outlining the company’s strategy to help alleviate the financial woes performers are facing. Continue Reading