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Steve Goldstein: Apple Just Moved the Center of Gravity in Podcasting

Posted on by Steve Goldstein

“The container is fluid. The brand is constant.” In his latest guest column, Steve Goldstein (Founder, Amplifi Media) recognizes the importance of Apple’s recent addition of native video in its podcast listening app — accelerating a transformation already evident elsewhere, notably YouTube and Spotify. Flowing from that new reality, Steve observes that revenue and complexity evolve together, and that strategic clarity evolve together. Continue Reading →

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A landscape of listening

Posted on by Brad Hill

Triton Digital has released its 2025 U.S. Podcast Report: A Year In Review. This research summary is meant to supplement Triton’s well-known monthly podcast ranker, creating a “Listening Landscape” which measures podcast reach, listener demographics, download methods, audio/video measurements, genre performance, new-listener behaviors, and quite a bit more. Click for our review, and link to the source download. Continue Reading →

James Cridland’s Radioland: New Australian broadcast rules – covering AI and kids

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by James Cridland

In this week’s column, James declaims: “While the Americans have, sadly, stopped innovating in radio as far as I can see – and I’ve evidence that they stopped 19 years ago – other parts of the world are offering much more interesting and exciting output.” DAB is part of that, of course. And this column calls out WSQK, part of the UK’s Global network. With startling originality, the station puts all its features within a Stranger Things universe. Here’s the trick: the entire station is an advertising vehicle for Stranger Things, the Netflix series that has just returned for a new season. Continue Reading →