RAIN Notes: Thursday, March 25
Jottings of note:
— New exec hire: A Million Ads
— Radio HoF open voting
— Voice AI webinar
— Manoush zigzags Continue Reading
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Pod Drop: Winding paths, deep questions, and basketball
New podcasts of note.
The Path HERE (Scott Savlov)
Takeline (Crooked Media)
Minnie Questions with Minnie Driver (iHeartRadio)
Will Packer Media partners with iHeartMedia for new podcasts
Will Packer Media is entering a formal and longer-range partnership to create a slate of scripted and unscripted podcasts for iHeart. Will Packer is a Hollywood producer. James Lopez is his production partner in the Fight Night podcast, a true crime show which was placed in iHeartRadio in 2020. The first spawn of this new arrangement will be an urban drama scripted series centered in present-day Oakland, California. It is set to launch in the second quarter of 2021. Continue Reading
Podsights ad validation company raises $4M and charts business growth
Podcasting attribution company Podsights has announced a $4-million fundraise from existing and new investors. Staff expansion is in the works, and the announcement includes several job listings. Also a growth chart. Continue Reading
Podcast Radio’s latest expansion: Birmingham
Podcast Radio, the UK all-podcast, 24/7 radio station on the DAB platform, has informed us that Birmingham has been added to the station reach. It is Britain’s second largest city. The expansion builds on the station’s existing footprint covering London, Surry, Manchester, and Glasgow. Continue Reading
Podcast-to-radio: Success for AM talkers in Westwood One
Migrating podcasts to radio is sometimes hindered by radio’s rigid hourly clock. Westwood One has found success crossing over two political talk stars, Dan Bongino and Ben Shapiro, into radio syndication. Click for details and metrics. Continue Reading
NPR rises, iHeartRadio dips in Triton Streaming Metrics (January)
Triton Digital’s Streaming Metrics monthly ranker of measured streaming entities is out for January streaming, and shows iHeartRadio in its newly established leading position, but with a dip over the past two months. NPR, meanwhile, approached 100,000 Average Active Sessions (AAS), Triton’s measurement of average simultaneous streams. Click through for the chart. Continue Reading
Spotify vs. Netflix: User growth 2015 – 2020. Spotify wins total; Netflix wins subs.
Spotify has only 76% the number of monthly paid subscribers as Netflix, but 31% more total users than Netflix subscribers. Further, Spotify is growing monthly subscribers at a quicker rate than Netflix, closing the gap year-over-year since 2015, though at a decelerating pace. Click through for details and graphic. Continue Reading
Global recorded music revenues $23B in 2020; majors underperform; “unstoppable rise” of indies (MIDiA Research)
Total revenues for recorded music were $23.1-billion according to MIDiA Research. Indie labels and artists outperformed in the market, as major labels underperformed. Last year artist-direct earnings broke the $1-billion threshold for the first time. Click through for more details and the infographic. Continue Reading
First podcast bias chart emerges from Ad Fontes Media & Media Roundtable
Yesterday we reported on the creation of the Media Roundtable, a new podcast industry watchdog group started by Oxford Road CEO Dan Granger. Part of its mission is to collaborate with Ad Fontes Media on a podcast bias chart that graphically positions shows in a matrix of left/right bias, and factual/fabricated content. Today we received a first version of the chart. Click through. Continue Reading
Eight shows enter Triton Digital Podcast Report ranker; top publishers remain the same
Most podcast rankers illuminate the concentration and stability of success — in other words, they don’t change much. Triton Digital’s every-four-weeks list of ranked 100 shows provides more oxygen, enabling rising shows to breathe in the exposure. In the latest, eight new shows appear, five of them from Kast Media. Continue Reading
Double-digit gains in revenue and bottom line highlight Audioboom annual report
In its 2020 annual finance report, UK-based podcast network and tech company Audioboom raised its revenue and improved its bottom line, both by double digits. We spoke with CEO Stuart Last via email, and dug into Audioboom’s CPM (cost per thousand) metrics for monetizing podcasts with ads. Continue Reading