The venerable People’s Choice Podcast Awards is rolling for 2023, opening the nomination process. Anyone can nominate a show or vote. (Hence: People’s Choice.) Additionally, podcast creators may submit their pods for $50 per show per category. Last year’s participation list makes an outstanding discovery resource. Click for all the details. Continue Reading
— Contemplating Takeaways (Lou Paskalis)
— Buy-side Findings (Borrell Associates)
— Powerful Rationales (AudioGo)
Preeminent audio consumer survey and knowledge company Edison Research has released The Infinite Dial 2023 Australia, the seventh annual edition of its comprehensive survey of listening habits, preferences, and trends. We examine podcast listening trends, and compare them to the American population. Click for details and graphs. Continue Reading
Acast announced today that it has expanded its self-serve podcast advertising platform, which now enables self-serve advertisers to buy host-read sponsorships across the entire Acast Marketplace. “This is a real moment for us,” said Product Manager at Acast Niklas Lagerberg. Click for details. Continue Reading
The Gracies award program, honoring women in media, has announced and listed the 2023 winners. Click through for the list of winners and corresponding producers in the National Digital Media category. Continue Reading
— How They See It (Sounds Profitable)
— Breather (Dominick Milano)
— Change At The Top (Entravision)
— Clearing the Myst (CoHost)
— Learnings (Arielle Nissenblatt)
— Cutback Clouds (LAist Studios)
— Driving Success(Veritonic)
— Riveting (AdvertiseCast)
— On The Move (Rob Greenlee)
— Driving Success(Veritonic)
— Riveting (AdvertiseCast)
— On The Move (Rob Greenlee)
— Deep Analysis (Eric Nuzum)
— Flipping (Rockie Thomas)
— Is it AI? (Paul McCartney)
In a vigorous and comprehensive product launch, Spotify today introduces Spotify Ad Analytics, a set of advertiser tools and solutions across podcast and music advertising. The new pixel-based technologies announced today grew from the company’s acquisition of then-indie attribution company Podsights over a year ago. Click for details and analysis of this important evolution in Spotify’s ad business. Continue Reading