2.4 billion dollars — that’s the speculated price for Tencent Music to acquire Chinese podcast behemoth Ximalaya. Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME) is likewise a giant Chinese audio platform. This news appears to be unconfirmed by principles as of this posting. Click for speculative details.
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Outgrowing the Word – Eric Nuzum
Read All About It – PocketCasts
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Global streaming behemoth Spotify released its Q1 finance/product update for the first quarter, clearly pleased with its results across earnings, subscriber data, user count, and all reported financial indicators. Investors appeared to be vigorously pleased. Click for metrics.
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— Leaving (Molly DeMellier) Continue Reading
Audio-first media company Cumulus Media, which owns radio network Westwood One, will release Q1 earnings on May 1. In the meantime, news has broken that Cumulus will depart its place on the Nasdaq stock trading platform, shifting to OTC (Over the Counter) trading. Click for details and comparative stock charts five years apart. Continue Reading
— Upcoming Bigness (The Podcast Show)
— IP vs. AI (Bill Rosenblatt) Continue Reading
— Questionable Celebration (The new York Times)
— The Sprawl of Achievement (Webby Awards)
— “I listened, and it made me sad.” (James Cridland) Continue Reading
In part two of the Coleman Insights and Amplifi Media research projct — From Explosion To Evolution: The State Of Video Podcasting — we move from intelligence about podcast consumers to understanding more about podcast creators. (See the consumer side in… Continue Reading
Today Jacobs Media released its epochal Techsurvey 2025, in which nearly 25,000 listeners to 500 commercial radio stations in the U.S. and Canada were queried. This annual project was in the field during January and February of this year. We look at key points in Part 1 of our coverage. Continue Reading
The company is clearly pleased with its first quarter financials. “Our business model continues to go from strength to strength.” — Stuart Last, CEO, Audioboom Continue Reading
— Creator and Listener: Who’s In Control? (Spooler Media)
— Retaining the Viall Files (Libsyn)
— Targets (Acast)
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Keep what’s good; change what’s wrong. That’s the message of a 21-page research manifesto produced by podcast ad agency Oxford Road with data from Edison Research. The premise? “Podcasting has reached a pivotal moment where its next phase of growth depends on how clearly we define and measure it.” A densely packed, powerfully informed rumination follows, and solutions. We extract key points and link to the full presentation. Continue Reading