RAIN Notes: Tuesday, April 5
News
Commercial Radio Australia re-ups with Triton Digital for monthly report
We learn today that Triton Digital’s monthly Australian Podcast Ranker is on solid footing for the next couple of years, at least. The report’s sponsor — Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) — has renewed its support through March 2024. The ranker was introduced in October, 2019. Continue Reading
SETI receives podcasts from other worlds; alien discount codes baffle scientists
SETI, the institute whose sole mission is the search for extraterrestrial life, has reported the discovery of podcast signals originating from across the galaxy. “We don’t know exactly where these shows come from, honestly,” remarked James Aressess, head of SETI’s audio division. “But we know a podcast when we hear one.” Click through for revelatory details. Continue Reading
Nine podcast highlights in the BBC Annual Report 2022
The BBC generously released its annual report for 2022-2-23. Here, we identify nine key points in the 82-page document metrics about, and plans for, podcasting. Click through for the list. Continue Reading
RAIN Notes: Wednesday, March 31
TuneIn adds MLB to its Premium sports programming
TuneIn is notifying us that the Premium subscription level of the streaming audio app has struck a distribution deal with Major League Baseball (MLB) to carry radio broadcasts of all 2022 games. TuneIn serves 75-million active monthly users. The Premium subscription is offered at $9.99/month, and includes major sports, music, news, and 100,000 global stations with reduced ads.
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RAIN Notes: Tuesday, March 29
iHeartMedia joins with Collab Inc. to launch Curativity and new kids podcasts
iHeartMedia is partnering with digital talent network/studio to form a new network called Curativity. The alliance kicks off with three kid shows. Continue Reading
Podcast downloads +45% year-over-year (Podtrac)
In our latest intermittent check-ins to Podtrac’s weekly podcast download report, we see a 45% increase between March 22, 2021 and March 27, 2022. The Society & Culture category showed the strongest week-over-week growth at +5%. Science showed the weakest week-over-week growth at -7%. Click for graphics.
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Spotify’s “Loud&Clear” portal evangelizes value to musicians
Spotify has dropped an interactive graphic website which presents statistics promoting Spotify’s value (and the value of streaming music generally) to musicians at many levels. Up top, Spotify notes that it has paid over $30-billion in royalties to the music industry as a whole, including $7-billion last year. Following that is an interactive card deck, called Top 10 Takeaways,” which highlights selected payout metrics. And there is much more. Click for illustrations and a link. Continue Reading
Weekly and monthly podcast listening dip, showing return to work and school (The Infinite Dial)
In The Infinite Dial 2022, released today in a live-theater webinar at Podcast Movement Evolutions, podcast listening was shown to pull back from high levels during Covid lifestyle changes. The shift indicated a return to pre-Covid lifestyles of work and school, at least to some extent, among monthly and weekly podcast listeners. Click for details and graphics. Continue Reading
RAIN Notes: Tuesday, March 22
Jottings of Note
— New Phase (Kelli Hurley)
— Acquisitional (The Verge)
— Smartest (Tom Truitt)