Comprehensive coverage of the podcasting industry and its business ecosystem.
Episode 15 of Pod Drop, RAIN’s flash briefing of new podcasts, has dropped today. As always, the fun and highly-produced five-minute show previews three new podcasts. Hear show excerpts mixed with review descriptions, hosted by RAIN president Brad Hill. Continue Reading
American public media has formed a partnership with revolver podcasts, a Spanish-language specialty podcast Network. The partnership is a effort for APM to reach multicultural audio consumers. reVolver Podcasts specializes in the latino podcast market. Continue Reading
In a burst of platform development, ad-tech company AdsWizz has introduced seven new targeting and advertising efficacy features. The company is positioning the new features as helpful to both publishers (the sell side) and advertisers (the buy side). Leading the… Continue Reading
by Jeff Umbro
In this week’s column, Podglomerate CEO Jeff Umbro provides news and commentary about Lemonada’s ad rep move, Joe Budden’s apparent separation from Spotify, Audible’s new plan, Joe Rogan and Apple … and an interview with Jessica Cordova Kramer. Continue Reading
Magellan AI has posted its Top 15 spenders, movers & shakers list for July. NBCUniversal is perched as the biggest advertiser, mainly for Peacock, its new streaming TV app which launched on July 15 — $668-thousand was spent across 69 shows to promote Peacock. Click through to hear one of its ads. Turner Broadcasting and Quibi also received spotlight treatment from Magellan. Continue Reading
We couldn’t help noticing an Apple job listing for Apple Podcasts Manager. Russia does not appear on Apple’s corporate list of countries and regions, but maybe it will soon. We looked at Apple’s podcast chart for Russia, and discovered a couple of interesting finds. Click through for deets. Continue Reading
We heard from Podcast Radio CEO Gerard Edwards that his company, the all-podcast DAB+ station, is raising a crowdfunded equity campaign on the Seedrs platform. Podcast Radio values itself on Seedrs as a 2.3-million British pound-valued company, and is offering 4.16% equity across this campaign. Click through for more details. Continue Reading
Pod Drop features new and returning podcasts. Today — two CNN news shows drop, Carlos Watson brings great interviews chops to his podcast, and a podumentary about a student-operated marijuana black market syndicate. Continue Reading
Triton Digital has released its U.S. Podcast Report, an every-four-week rolling weekly average of downloads and listeners. This report covers the July 6 through August 2 period. Most remarkable is the stability of this report compared to the previous one. And we noticed the same thing in our previous coverage. Click through for details. Continue Reading
If Q2 was the Covid Quarter, NPR was infected. The U.S. public radio network lost about a quarter of its audience during that period. The main influence? Loss of morning and evening car commuting. But this trend is balanced by shifts to in-home device listening, increasing reach overall. Podcast revenue will surpass broadcast ad revenue for the first time. Click through for details. Continue Reading
Toronto-based podcast advertising company The Podcast Exchange (TPX) is announcing today the launch of TPX Studios, a production facility intended to meet a demand for business podcasting. The focus here is branded podcasting. In its promotion, the company notes that one in three Canadaians listens to podcasts, and that the on-demand audio category, mobile and immersive as it is, is a premium way to reach customers. Continue Reading
Spotify has announced a new daily sports playlist, appropriately named Daily Sports. This new product triples down on mixed-media programming that combines spoken word and music. As such, the playlists are personalized to each user — at least so far as the music is chosen. Spotify has been down this road twice already, with Daily Wellness and Your Daily Drive. Mixing spoken word with music is part of the company’s effort to diversify listening, and shift usage time into low-cost non-music content. Continue Reading