Podcast Taxonomy, a consortium which establishes and defines creative roles in podcasting, has announced eight board members. Click through to see them. The new board plans to convene quarterly. Continue Reading
Facebook belatedly joins the audio age today … but just barely. The company is simultaneously launching Facebook Podcasts and the new Audio Rooms product. Click through for descriptions, details, and speculations. Continue Reading
Australian audio company ARN has gained exclusive podcast Australian ad sales representation for The New York Times, the company announces. The deal facilitates Australian advertisers reaching the entire NYT portfolio. ARN also operates the iHeartPodcast Network Australia. Continue Reading
The periodic podcast reports from leading technology and metrics companies create a drumbeat that sounds nearly identical month after month. Changes in ranking order are rare in the top 10 or 20 measurement slots, no matter what the metric. The latest from Triton Digital shows a shift in the #1 spot, but the margin is paper-thin. Continue Reading
The w3 Awards are an annual recognition program for excellence in website presentation, marketing, video, mobile site, mobile apps, social presences … and this year, podcasts. Tons of categories, and they differ substantially from how Apple sorts podcasts. We like it. Continue Reading
SXM Media, the audio ad network that combines SiriusXM, Pandora, and Stitcher ad-supported content, is now offering podcast transcriptions to help target audiences based on granular subject matter signals. This beta feature is enabled by an AdsWizz tool. Click for details. Continue Reading
This is Sean Rameswaram, host of the news podcast Today, Explained, explaining his promotion: ““Eight hundred episodes in, I couldn’t be more thrilled to have finally been promoted to co-host of Today, Explained.” That was tongue-in-cheek, and there is more to the announcement. Continue Reading
“You wanna know who we’re crawling into bed with this time? […] We are now officially in an exclusive relationship with Spotify.” –Alex Cooper’s in-character announcement of a buyout deal with Spotify. The high-rated show will be exclusive starting July 14. Continue Reading
Audioburst, an AI-driven audio search and delivery platform, is eager to stream spoken-word audio within mobile apps in categories like fitness, weather, shopping and many others. The company released a study which supports the concept, surveying execs of mobile app companies serving large numbers of daily users. Continue Reading
Jottings of Note
— TV / Podcast (NATPE)
— Talkative Ads (Instreamatic)
— Yikes (The Verge)
Australian radio company Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) announced that its audio listening app LiSTNR hit a record in May: A new record high of 10.9-million active streams were served during the month, a 20% increase year-over-year. That includes live streaming radio, podcasts, music, news, sport, and information. Continue Reading
Digital audio advertising and programmatic platform DAX has signed a multi-year exclusive ad-rep deal with streaming music service AccuRadio. AccuRadio was ranked #10 in Triton Digital’s Streaming Metrics Monthly Ranker for April, and has the highest average TSL (time spent listening) of any Triton-measured streaming entity. Continue Reading