Comprehensive coverage of the podcasting industry and its business ecosystem.
iHeartMedia announced that it will host a new live event to recognize listers’ favorite podcasts. The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards are scheduled to take place in Los Angeles on January 18. Winners for 17 of the 22 categories will be chosen by listeners and voting begins today. Continue Reading
Commercial Radio Australia has announced plans to form a podcast working group intended to help grow podcasting in the region. The group will help lead development of podcasting, as well as providing related advice to the radio industry about consumer promotion, audience measurement and reporting, market research, and education. Continue Reading
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation released results from its third annual podcast survey during the OzPod event this week. The survey found that women are driving growth for listener engagement overall and for true crime shows in particular. Continue Reading
Podtrac has posted its list of the top 20 podcasts for September 2018. The chart is ranked based on internal data for shows that are Podtrac clients and by publicly available data used in the company’s algorithms for non-clients. September features another new top podcast. Continue Reading
Reality shows have long been the domain of television, but one podcast called The Brights is ready to tackle the genre. British TV personality and fashion designer Lydia Bright is releasing a weekly program that may be the first structured reality show podcast. Continue Reading
James Cridland’s Future of Radio is a column by the Australia-based radio futurologist. THIS WEEK: Several posts from James covering the drama around the Apple Podcast charts and the options provided by new technologies. Continue Reading
Show Shouts highlights noteworthy new and upcoming podcasts from across the vast and fast-growing category. Today’s developments include two macabre additions to the true crime genre, as well as a bipartisan look ahead to the midterm elections. Continue Reading
The Canadian Podcast Listener Report 2018 offers insights on the steadily growing audience for podcasts in Canada and the unique trends of this market. Jeff Vidler, president of Audience insights, and Jeff Ulster, chief content and technology officer for The Podcast Exchange, presented the full study on Wednesday at the RAIN Summit Canada in Toronto. Continue Reading
Podtrac has released its monthly ranker of the top podcast publishers. Only publishers that participate in Podtrac’s measurement platform for the entire month are included on the chart. The September 2018 chart includes all of the same publishers as the August list. Continue Reading
News from up north, as Corus Entertainment announces an acquisition for its Curiouscast podcast network. The platform has added popular true crime podcast Dark Poutine to its lineup, which has a growing number of original Canadian shows. Continue Reading
Acast announced that it is collaborating with Spotify to create a distribution channel for its podcasts. The deal includes integrations within the Acast Create content management system. Continue Reading
Midroll Media, now a podcast network under E.W. Scripps’ Stitcher brand, has released its podcast listener demographics report for 2018. The company had 205 show hosts ask their audiences to participate in the survey, and this latest iteration included feedback from more than 151,000 listeners between February 2 and October 4, 2017. Continue Reading