audioBoom announced new hires at two of its international offices. The audio and podcasting company has hired Mike Newman as head of content partnerships in the UK, and Umesh Barve as head of partnerships in India. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Entercom exec’s audio snapshot. A podcasting history lesson. Best podcast episodes of the year (so far). Roger Lynch’s Bloomberg interview. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web. Stories include another view on Nielsen mid-year data and a Pandora exec talking about the audio advertising landscape. Continue Reading
ASCAP shared the results from two court proceedings against broadcast radio stations from Royce International Broadcasting Corporation in California. The stations, KFRH-FM, KREV-FM, and KRCK-FM, will pay the performing rights organization more than $1.5 million in license fees, costs, attorneys’ fees, and statutory damages. Continue Reading
WQXR, the all-classical music radio station operating under the New York Public Radio umbrella, has hired Lukas Krohn-Grimberghe as director of musical products on its digital team. He will begin the position on August 13. Continue Reading
Sprint has unveiled two new pricing plans, and one of them leverages the wireless carrier’s stake in music streaming platform Tidal. The new Unlimited Plus plan will come bundled with a Tidal subscription in addition to Hulu access and other perks. Continue Reading
VuHaus, the video collaboration from public radio and television around the country, announced the addition of WYEP in Pittsburgh to its roster. The music discovery service now has 24 participants. Pittsburgh’s 91.3 WYEP-FM will curate its own page on the VuHaus platform with local talent and unique video content. Continue Reading
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has shared its annual data, which showed contractions to broadcast radio and television as media consumption trends online. Total broadcasting revenue fell 3.3% over 2016 to 2017 $17.3 billion. Continue Reading
Spotify hosted a training program focused on helping women of color to make their own podcasts. The Sound Up Bootcamp selected ten applicants out of 18,000 to participate in the training where they workshopped ideas for podcasts to share their own stories and perspectives. Continue Reading
Founded by an executive from a technology company and a leading audio producer, the audio buying and creative agency Trisonic announced its launch today. The launch is promoted as bringing a “new alternative” to the audio media market for the first time in a decade. Continue Reading
Drake continues to exert dominance over the music landscape with a new album that has broken records and demonstrated how extensively streaming has changed the role of longstanding industry standards and expectations. Scorpion dropped on June 29, and it quickly racked up enough streams to crack multiple records. The double album now holds the single-day streaming records for Spotify and Apple Music. Continue Reading
Tencent is slowly progressing with its plan to spin out its music branch into a standalone business that will eventually list in the United States. The latest move from the entertainment conglomerate was a filing this weekend with the Hong Kong stock exchange announcing its proposed change that would see Tencent Music Entertainment Group become a separate entity. Continue Reading