Gracie Awards 2020 for podcasting
The Gracie Awards, produced by the Alliance for Women in Media, have announced this year’s honorees. Podcasting plays a part in this in nine categories for 2020. Click through for podcast winners. Continue Reading
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Edward R. Murrow regional awards for podcasting
The Edward R. Murrow awards have recognized excellence since 1971. There are two waves of awarding — Regional and national. There are 14 regional divisions, carving up the U.S. by groups of states, plus one International region. The regional awards are out today. Click through to see all podcast winners. Continue Reading
Forget drive-in movies. Denmark has drive-in live/radio concerts
While Zoom is servicing new virtual gathering applications every day, and at least one live concert promoter is selling highly distanced seats in a brick-and-mortar concert venue, here is something new from Europe. A quickly-built drive-in concert venue in Denmark sold out 500 tickets to entertainment-starved music-lovers in minutes. Continue Reading
Podtrac coronavirus tracking: Flat week; April was down; News is up; Sunday lags
Podtrac is continuing to share weekly updates of U.S. podcast listening, both in downloads and audience, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Its latest data is for the week of April 27-May 3. A few other interesting trends are emerging out of Podtrac’s download growth charts for different categories. Continue Reading
Super Hi-Fi milestone: A billion seques
If genius is in the details, Super Hi-Fi is celebrating a moment of genius success: one-billion “audio stitches” — transitions between songs, mainly. The company’s AI tech creates smart and smooth segues between songs, meant not only to eliminate gaps in listening, but to create what Founder/CEO Zack Zalon calls “tapestries of emotional listening.” Continue Reading
Targetspot partners with The JACK Brand to market digital audio ad inventory
The JACK brand, one of the few remaining independent commercial radio groups in the UK, is announcing a deal with Targetspot which will allow advertisers to access JACK’s digital audio inventory programmatically for the first time. Continue Reading
POD DROP: Travel storytelling, TV stars in lockdown, Julie Andrews
Pod Drop features new, interesting, and returning podcasts. Today, new podcasts from Frequency Machine, Los Angeles Times, and American Public Media. Continue Reading
Stitcher earned $17-million in Q1, up 13% over 2019
Stitcher, a top podcast network, enjoyed first-quarter revenue of $17.1-million, a 13% jump year-over-year from Q1 2019 ($15.1-million). (As a timely but random point of comparison, PodcastOne just sold to LiveXLive last week for $18-million.) Projecting across the year, it might be feasible to consider Stitcher a $68-million topline business. Continue Reading
iHeartMedia earnings: Listening up, advertising down, digital everything is the way forward
In iHeartMedia’s Q1 earnings call, Chairmand and CEO Bob Pittman laid out his company’s revenue trendlines, a review of strategic decisions, and his views of a hopeful future. In simple coronavirus strokes: Listening is up, advertising is down, and digital initiatives are providing the best result and will propel future recovery. Continue Reading
James Cridland’s International Radio Trends: Giraffes, lockdown, and Times Radio
by James Cridland
A weekly column from the preeminent Radio Futurologist. THIS WEEK: How the BBC produced during coronavirus. How is Beats 1 doing? Ten best music radio stations. Radio recovery. Podcast promoter chat. And much more! Continue Reading
Peabody Award nominees include a dozen shows from podcasting and radio
The Peabody Awards shared its nominees for the best broadcasting and digital media stories released in 2019. The selection of nominees included 12 from the worlds of radio and podcasting Continue Reading
LiveXLive / PodcastOne deal raises both profiles
Today’s headline news that online music service LiveXLive will acquire pioneering podcast network PodcastOne shines new light on both companies and raises their profiles. It is the latest in a category consolidation that is mashing up podcast networks with related — but different — new parent companies. Continue Reading