RAIN at iHeartRadio Podcast Awards: Results & pics
The 2nd annual iHeartRadio Podcast Awards were celebrated Friday night at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank, CA., and RAIN was there to observe the show. Continue Reading
Top 100 Norwegian podcasts in new ranker: Podtoppen
Podlists proliferate the podsphere. The latest? Podtoppen, which ranks the top 100 Norwegian podcasts. “Norway’s official top list and measurement of podcasts” is compiled by an entity which calls itself the Steering Group, comprised of five Norwegian media companies. Continue Reading
Rumor Fact(ory): Spotify shopping for The Ringer podcast network
Spotify’s next podcast acquisition could be The Ringer, the network established by Bill Simmons in 2016. The Ringer is a sports and pop culture podcast publisher; Bill Simmons is ex-ESPN and helped start the 30 For 30 sports series. There is some fearful reaction on Twitter. Continue Reading
Perplexed by the Apple vs Spotify podcast race? They can both be winners.
With podcasts on track to be commanding a cool billion dollars in ad revenue, the fight to be the leading listening platform will only be getting more intense. This year kicked off with multiple reports from difference sources with their own datasets about which service is the biggest. James Cridland of Podnews gave his take on how to reconcile the different assessments Continue Reading
Chinese audio platform Lizhi goes public on Nasdaq
Lizhi, a leading audio content app in China, has launched on the U.S. stock market. It is trading on Nasdaq, and is one of the first non-music platforms from the country to go public. Lizhi is offering 4.1 million shares at $11 per share. Continue Reading
Canadian Podcast Listener suggests finding value in niche shows and advertisements
The Canadian Podcast Listener published a blog post with an exploration of the value in niche audiences, both for shows and for advertisers. The post included a graphic with a breakdown of the audience demographics for the top 10 podcasts on investing. Only 3.3% of monthly podcast listeners said they listen to shows about investing, meaning that mass-market brands likely won’t turn to those programs to reach a large market. Continue Reading
Podtrac opens podcast ranker to a new segment for December 2019
Podtrac released its December 2019 podcast ranker. The analytics platform made some format changes to its publisher chart last month, and its approach to the top shows has also gotten a slight tweak. Continue Reading
TuneIn creates sonic logo to extend branding to screen-free listening platforms
TuneIn announced that it has adopted a new sonic logo. This short audio snippet is designed to present company branding to listeners who are accessing TuneIn’s service on connected devices or screenless platforms. Continue Reading
NPR launches Student Podcast Challenge podcast
NPR launched a new podcast centered on creating audio in the classroom. The Student Podcast Challenge show is made by the team that runs the NPR contest of the same name. Continue Reading
First image emerges of Spotify’s potential Home Thing hardware
Spotify caught eyes and ears last spring with its plans for a piece of voice-activated hardware dubbed Car Thing. Now, it seems to have a new setting as its next goal, according to the latest update from a noted reverse-engineer. Continue Reading
MIDiA: Spotify and Apple can each lay claim to leads in podcast platform war
MIDiA Research posted a graphic from its fourth-quarter podcast tracker survey ahead of the launch of its Podcast Platforms report. The data, from a consumer survey of 576 podcast users, show Spotify with a lead in the overall weighted average of four national cohorts. Spotify is also the leading podcast app for Canada, Australia, and the UK, according to MIDiA’s research — but Google leads in the U.S. Continue Reading
Gaana annual report finds strong interest in regional music
Gaana, the streaming service catering to Indian audiences, has released its annual report on the country’s consumption trends. “2019 was a landmark year for music lovers, artists and the industry in more ways than one,” CEO Prashan Agarwal said. “The meteoric rise in regional music consumption across the nation marks one of the biggest cultural shifts in perception of music in the past decade.” Continue Reading