Forget about asking “What’s a podcast?” That hisorical epoch is over, says Steve Goldstein. In this guest column, Steve defines four eras in the history of podcasting. (He brings spaghetti to this analysis.) Continue Reading
Silver Sounds, a Manhattan production company, has launched the inaugural NYC Podcast Awards. The founding rationale is to bring light to under-recognized creators and creator communities. Click to see how it’s structured, and for the submission link. Continue Reading
Global streaming service Deezer partnered with Ipsos to conduct a consumer survey to discover popular perceptions and attitudes toward AI-generated music. Nine thousand people in eight countries were questioned. Also, a concert violinist makes his own test. Continue Reading
New year forecasting – MIDiA Research
Massive aggregation – AcastBest – NPR
Hot Smart Rich(er) – Steven Bartlett
For early-stagers – Podcast Creator Summit Continue Reading
Sounds Profitable has released The Creators: Understanding the Modern Podcast Creator. The study was fielded by Signal Hill Insights, and queried over 5,000 Americans 18 years and older. Click for partial coverage and link to the source deck. Continue Reading
The Washington Post has introduced podcasts personalized to each user’s preferences of length and topic, and reading history. The mechanism is driven by AI, and is co-created with the AI voicing company Eleven Labs Continue Reading
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Board DirectorHenry Hinton will enter the long-running fray over the exemption of terrestrial radio from paying performance royalties for airplay of songs. Hinton will argue that stations should continue their statutory exemption. Continue Reading
The main stream – Sounds Profitable
Client-first thinking – True Native Media
Best – NPR Continue Reading
The Golden Globes Awards, an accolades program founded to recognize excellence in movies and television, have added a “Best Podcast” category. This mainstream recognition of podcasting as a major media category should not be underestimated. It might seem late to the game, but adding the new category was prompted by metrics , via Golden Globes data partner Luminate. Continue Reading
Tops – An upcoming webinar from Edison Research
So THAT’s how it works – The anatomy of he music revenue system, by Pete Madigan Continue Reading
Triton Digital-owned Omny Studio announces that it has equipped its podcast creation platform with video podcasting. Along with the basic capacity to produce video podcasts, the update includes analytics and monetization for them. Continue Reading
Spotify Wrapped has been released; a kind of holiday data gift to subscribers. It has also become a social touchpoint and enormous sharing topic. Wrapped is an annual feature in the Spotify mobile app; it is not presented in the… Continue Reading