James Cridland’s International Radio Trends is a column by the Australia-based radio futurologist. THIS WEEK: What’s the future of AM radio? Podcast loudness. U.S. radio deregulation. MacBook Pro vs. Chromebook in James’ office. Continue Reading
Triton Digital announced this morning an integration of its programmatic audio platform with Google’s Display & Video 360, a global cross-category campaign planning system. Triton asserts that this integration creates “the industry’s largest transparent marketplace whereby audio inventory can be transacted at scale across the globe.” Continue Reading
Content and Marketing Director at podcast company Whooshkaa Corey Layton has accepted a position at Australia radio group ARN, where he will assume the role of Commercial Products and Audio Partnerships Director. It is a newly created position. Continue Reading
Steve Pratt of Pacific Content examines assumptions and realities of blog publishing frequency. Is daily the best setup for success? Is weekly optimal? Not necessarily in either case. Continue Reading
Spotify’s recent quarterly investor call was entirely a Q&A affair. Accordingly, the call provided a rich record of responses from CEO Daniel Ek and CFO Barry McCarthy about podcasting. Continue Reading
Host-read sponsor endorsements are common in podcasting, which owes its success in large part to leveraging the relationship between hosts and listeners. In this guest column, Steve Goldstein takes a fascinating trip through the history of live reads, including pioneer Paul Harvey who created the original playbook. Continue Reading
James Cridland’s International Radio Trends is a column by the Australia-based radio futurologist. THIS WEEK: Global closes its acquisition of three outdoor advertising companies. Pirate DAB has arrived. Much more. Continue Reading
More indications of the explosive growth in Latin music was provided by Nielsen at the Billboard Latin Music Festival last week. Population growth, demographics, and streaming metrics are all in favor. Continue Reading
The Webby Awards were released this week, and the focus here is the Podcasts category. Scripps and Wondery each won a handful. Continue Reading
In what is shaping up as a daily Luminary update, today we report more podcasts which have withdrawn permission to be included in the Luminary listening app. We learn from Podnews that Barstool Sports, a top U.S. publisher according to Podtrac’s monthly ranker, has pulled its 26 shows from Luminary. Endeavor Audio, creator of Blackout and The Bellas, is also out. Continue Reading
After a lengthy back-and-forth negotiation, Gimlet Media appears to have recognized its production staff’s efforts to unionize. On Friday, the union Twitter account posted that the union has been recognized. A Gimlet producer tweeted that the production staff has had a re-vote on the plans and that a majority was in support of the union. Continue Reading
After much speculation and apprehension, in which Luminary was fearfully criticized as a potentially ruinous force in podcasting which could blot out traditional free listening, the app is in hand. As of today, Luminary is a routine podcatcher that presents “hundreds of thousands” of shows, and offers a premium subscription for original, ad-free programs laced with celebrity names. Continue Reading