Comprehensive coverage of the podcasting industry and its business ecosystem.
Spreaker has launched its first foray into Amazon Alexa skills. The company’s entire catalog of English-language podcasts can now be accessed by voice commands on Alexa-enabled devices. That catalog includes Spreaker-hosted programs, and many popular podcasts hosted elsewhere, such as the TED Radio Hour. Continue Reading
Ad tech company WideOrbit announced that it has integrated the standard metrics developed by the IAB into its WO On Demand platform for podcast management. That means all users of WO On Demand can use the tools for consistently measuring podcast content, audience, and advertising performance. Continue Reading
Barstool Sports is the latest podcaster to make the jump to television. ESPN has inked a deal to create a late-night TV show called Barstool Van Talk from the trio behind the Pardon My Take podcast. Continue Reading
Podtrac posted its September 2017 podcast rankings. The month showed some shuffles from the previous month across the whole list. At the top, Stuff You Should Know edged out RadioLab for the No. 2 spot, although This American Life remains at the top of the heap. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: The government gets into podcasts; duo of blog posts highlight radio and podcasting; creating audio for augmented reality. Continue Reading
We’ve been profiling a trend over recent months of the film and television industry of finding new source material in podcasts. The latest project in this vein to hit the airwaves, or at least your fiber optic cables, is Amazon Prime Video’s Lore. The show is based on a podcast of the same name by Aaron Mahnke featuring real-life stories of horror, witchcraft, and medical malpractice. Continue Reading
China-based CastBox is building out its podcast features with an audio search feature. The service using natural language processing to let listeners search for keywords or topics within episodes of shows in its catalog. For now, the search is only available in English, but may be expanded to other languages once the technology is perfected, according to founder and CEO Xiaoyu Wang. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Highlights from Werk It podcast festival for women. How label services are changing alongside labels. Continue Reading
Google has acquired podcast company 60db. The short-form audio platform announced in a blog post that it will be joining Google starting November 10, but did not disclose price or financial details of the deal. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Measuring the impact of landing on Apple’s front page for a new podcast. Some recent statistics from Gaana. Continue Reading
Recently launched podcast network Podglomerate has added two shows to its lineup. Both are part of the TuneIn First Play program and both premiered on October 2. The new programs are 2 Girls 1 Podcast in production with The Daily Dot and ReMade in production with Serial Box. Continue Reading
Many legacy media organizations have hopped on the podcasting bandwagon as the audio format’s popularity has grown in recent years. One such company is book publisher Macmillan. Macmillan Podcasts has a decade of experience in developing and distributing audio shows, and the division just announced its fall show lineup. Continue Reading