The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released its event schedule for the first half of 2022. The slate includes the IAB Podcast Upfront and the IAB NewFronts. The organization has also added a new showcase. Click for details. Continue Reading
Classical music radio/audio brand WQXR is honored today as “WQXR Day” in New York City, the recognition bestowed by mayor Bill De Blasio. This interesting and laudatory recognition honors the station’s 85th anniversary. WQXR operates a robust digital offering via its mobile app. Click for details and history. Continue Reading
United Kingdom residents beat the U.S. when it comes to consuming online audio, and especially enjoys Spotify. Those are two of the many comparative analytics revealed today by Edison Research in the company’s presentation of the first instance of its Infinite Dial consumer survey brand focused on the British Isles, Infinite Dial UK 2021. Click through for bunches of metrics, graphics, and a link to the entire study. Continue Reading
In a new blog entry posted yesterday, Pierre Bouvard (Chief Insights Officer, Cumulus Media) presents a truckload of trends related to Spotify, Pandora, AM/FM radio, and podcasting. A rich bundle of charts, interpretations, questions from RAIN, and answers from the author. Click through for it all. Continue Reading
Edison Research has released a new study: 2021 Car Buyers Survey. ONe key learning is that 90% of car buyers expect broadcast radio to be standard in-car equipment. As we thumb through the slides, we note some comparative metrics that position American consumers as more detached from in-car listening to AM/FM than in other countries. Click through for details and graphics. Continue Reading
Data analytics company Drive Time Metrics (DTM) has been awarded a new patent for collecting and analyzing connected vehicle media data. The company collects anonymized data from in-car audio playback of all sorts, and delivers actionable metrics to its clients which can range from music streaming services to satellite radio to AM/FM. Continue Reading
Copenhagen-based Podimo has received a Series B funding round of $78-million dollars. Since 2019, the company has raised $115-million. Podimo operates a few different lines of business — click for info. Continue Reading
Jottings of Note
— Smart and Yum (The Podglomerate)
— Settle In (The Podcast Reader)
— Because NOW! (Spotify)
Jottings of Note
— The Llama, Still Getting Kicked (Winamp)
— High and Exclusive (Ed Sheeran & Deezer)
— The Power of Sound (Steve Keller)
Facebook launched podcast listening in its mobile apps during the summer. We tested it this week to learn its features and functions. We were interested in how the experience might contribute to raising awareness of podcasting in Facebook’s billions of users around the world — or even just the 221-million Americans on the platform — and how the experience compares to stand-alone podcatchers. Continue Reading
Jottings of Note
— Ready To Go (Libsyn & Samsung)
— High and Exclusive (Ed Sheeran & Deezer)
Edison Research released the company’s quarterly report of top 50 podcasts, the result of an 8,000-person consumer survey, part of the company’s Podcast Consumer Tracking Report. Edison’s ranker is notable for its methodology. In this edition, as in previous releases, nearly all 50 shows carry over from the previous report. Click through for illustrations. Continue Reading