Jack Dorsey, owner of the Tidal streaming music service, today announces a sweeping adjustment of Tidal’s corporate structure, staff size, and competitive positioning. Click for available details and quotes. Continue Reading
Acast announces that it has formed a partnership with brand safety, suitability, and planning service Barometer. The news is targeted to podcast advertisers, with a promise to navigate risk, discover new content, and measure campaign performance. Initiatives like this reassure advertisers that podcast advertising (still rather a new kid on the block for some advertisers) can be as trustworthy and exacting as longer established media categories. Click for more.
In an intriguing reversal of Podtrac’s familiar podcast ranker — in which the measurement company examines one area of interest with multiple participants — Podtrac has introduced Top Podcasts By Country, which lists the single #1 podcast in each of 30 countries. Click for more info, some of the results, and alink. Continue Reading
— Modern Tech for Ancient History (Libsyn)
— Knowing The Audience (Experian)
— Bestowal (ARN iHeart & Magellan AI)
— Closing The Circle (Slipstream)
— A Need (Call Her Daddy)
— Soft Core Cheating (Hearing Things)
Per annual tradition, Signal Hill Insights has released a data snack from its upcoming full meal of metrics — the annual Canadian Podcast Listener report. (The full feast will be served to subscribers on November 28.) In this peek, we learn that podcast listening is on the rise across categories of frequency, from “ever listened” to daily listening. Click for the graph and full-study info. Continue Reading
Triton Digital has released its U.S. Podcast Ranker for September. Without any surprise we observe that iHeartAudience Network occupies the #1 spot. Seven newcomers arrive on the ranker. PLUS: Detailed research into political podcast listeners. Continue Reading
In his latest column, James Cridland offers a few bullet points about an apparently unsuccessful ratings gambit, a multi-standard digital radio receiver, and the latest MIDAS survey results from RAJAR. Continue Reading
In his latest guest column, Amplifi Media chief Steve Goldstein tries out Google’s new NotebookLM AI tool, and shares the AI-generated audio. He calls it impressive, jaw-dropping, exciting, weird, and unsettling. We agree. Steve also pulls back from the amazement of it, reassuringly to human podcasters. In the past, we have called out some of Steve’s columns as “must read.” This one is on a higher level of must read … and listen. Continue Reading
In its Q3 Trading Update, Audioboom, the word “record” appears four times in the “Financial and operating insights” section. Click for the financial breakthroughs, and link to the official release. Continue Reading