Two natively streaming shows produced by The BIG 615, have won awards at the annual Country Radio Seminar (CRS) in Nashville. The BIG 615 is produced by Garth Brooks, and streams exclusively on TuneIn. Continue Reading
UK-based global podcast company Audioboom tells us that it has extended its partnership with five top-tier podcasts. As a group, these top-tier shows delivered 90-million downloads in 2023. Click for details. Continue Reading
In iHeartMedia’s recently released earnings for Q4 2023, we see upward moving results for the Digital Audio Group balancing downward financials for the Multiplatform group. Click for much more detail and financial graphs. Continue Reading
The average cost per thousand (CPM) for podcast advertising took a modest upturn in February, rising about one percent compared to the average rate in January. This from the monthly reckoning at Libsyn subsidiary AdvertiseCast. Continue Reading
Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, released financial information for Q4, and full-year 2023. UMG is a Dutch-American firm operating under Dutch law and traded on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (AMS). We look at top-line Q4 and 2023 numbers. Continue Reading
In ASCAP’s just-released annual report for 2023, the performing rights organization announces record-breaking royalty collections on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publisher members. Click for details and charts. Continue Reading
Audacy is announcing today that it has reached an agreement with SoundStack to carry Live365 internet radio stations on the Audacy platform. The partnership is the latest chapter in a sprawling story of Live365 as a champion of small webcasters. Click for details and history. Continue Reading
Audio analytics company Veritonic has partnered with RealEyes, an AI firm focused on evaluating human response, to create The Veritonic Audio Attention Report. This study leverages the RealEyes visual analysis AI, which uses a webcam-on survey process to capture and overlay realtime reactions to hearing ads. Continue Reading
Podtrac has issued a new monthly (presumably) ranker of global streams/downloads, and views. The streams/downloads portion is a measure of RSS activity, and the viewing numbers come from YouTube. Six networks are represented in this work (Podtrac clients). In the RAIN Remix, we reveal the metrics on a per-show basis. It makes all the difference for one of the networks. Continue Reading
by Steve Goldstein
“The heat of the moment, can be the difference between a podcast listen and a show stuck in the purgatory of the podcast queue.” In his latest guest column, Steve Goldstein talks about the importance of podcast drop timing. Case study: HBO chose to delay dropping John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight from Mondays to Thursdays. Will audiences “wait and see”? Pay to see? Or maybe neither. John Oliver wasn’t happy about it. Steve connects this to podcasting, and evokes “the purgatory of the podcast queue.” Continue Reading
Magellan AI’s accounting of podcast advertiser spending for January shows a small increase over December, with fewer month-over-month repeaters than the December report. Click for RAIN’s analysis and Magellan’s chart with top podcast genres receiving investment. Continue Reading