Audible is running a new promotional campaign in Australia/New Zealand aimed at encouraging more people to pick up audiobooks. The campaign has tapped some popular local celebrities to tout audiobooks as a way to keep up with their ‘to-read’ lists even when they lead busy lives. Continue Reading
Pex, an analytics and digital rights management company, has acquired Dubset Media Holdings. Dubset offers tools for DJs and other creators to identify the audio used in mixes and remixes, and to secure the rights for their use. Continue Reading
Entercom Communications announced a big change in its C-suite leadership. The media and entertainment company’s Chief Operating Officer Weezie Kramer will retire later this year. She will be succeeded by Susan Larkin, who will assume the COO post effective May 5. Continue Reading
ABC Audio and ESPN Audio have entered a partnership for podcast ads. Under their agreement, the ESPN Audio ad sales team will represent the ABC Audio podcast network. ABC Audio joins FiveThirtyEight, National Geographic, and ESPN’s own network as ad sales clients. Continue Reading
Triton Digital announced a new integration with DBSgroep, a leader in Dutch audio media sales. With this arrangement, DBSgroep’s RTVPLAN media sales solution has been integrated with the Triton Advertising Server. Continue Reading
Chinese conglomerate Bytedance, which owns the popular video app TikTok, is moving forward with a standalone music streaming service. The platform is called Resso. The “social music streaming app” is debuting in India. Continue Reading
The IPFI and German music trade body BVMI won a victory in a legal case against a website that sold stream manipulation services. The organizations received an injuction against Followerschmiede.de. The site creates “plays” on digital service providers such as YouTube and Spotify that do not represent actual human listening. Continue Reading
Spotify has partnered with several different companies to offer deals and discounts over the years. Its most recent arrangement is with Chase. Eligible customers of select Chase credit cards can get a six-month free trial of Spotify Premium. Continue Reading
Warner Music Group has gotten a reprieve in court. A federal judge in California declined to certify a class action lawsuit that claimed the label did not pay artists the correct share of digital streaming royalties. In addition, the label appears to be adjusting its IPO timeline. Continue Reading
ESPN announced some statistics about its audio efforts from the 2019 Share of Ear study by Edison Research. According to the research, ESPN Audio was responsible for 54% of all sports listening, up 23% from its share in 2018. Continue Reading
iHeartMedia shared its financial results from the fourth quarter and full fiscal year of 2019. For all of 2019, revenue increased 2% to $3.68 billion. The company noted that its direct operating expenses grew in the year due to its acquisitions of Stuff Media and Jelli. Continue Reading
Newsly released figures from My Podcast Review service by Daniel J. Lewis show that 47,000 new shows were introduced to Apple Podcasts in the past 30 days. Total number of shows? Over 900,000. Continue Reading