Podtrac has released its ranking of the top podcast publishers for February 2020. A change is afoot — Podtrac has added five more places to this ranking, making it a top-20 list. Also, the RAIN Remix, to gain insight about how the audience, and streams/downloads, are distributed across number of shows for each publisher. It reshuffles the list considerably. Continue Reading
Tencent may be focusing on Africa as the next market for its Joox streaming service. The platform is already very popular across Asia, including in some emerging markets such as Indonesia and Thailand. Continue Reading
Spain’s music industry could lose at least €100 million ($109 million) due to the global pandemic of COVID-19. Antonio Guisasola, president of industry group Promusicae, gave dire predictions about hits to both physical and streaming revenue in 2020. Continue Reading
Counterpoint Research added its own data to the body of research into music streaming. The company found that global online music streaming subscriptions grew 32% on-year during 2019, reaching a total of 358 million. In its data, Spotify was the leading streaming platform last year. Continue Reading
TikTok may have at least temporarily gotten its ducks in a row for licensing, but music publishers are still threatening legal action. David Israelite, CEO of the National Music Publishers Association, told the Financial Times (paywall) that a lawsuit is a “likely future step.” Continue Reading
A weekly column from the preeminent Radio Futurologist. THIS WEEK: James offers some real talk about the wave of listening statistics coming in from radio and podcast operations alike as the world remains on pandemic lockdown. Continue Reading
RAIN Founder and CEO of AccuraRadio Kurt Hanson posts this special announcement about a new coronavirus resource from AccuRadio and RAIN News. We know there’s already a lot of news out there. The mission of Coronavirus Watch is to organize and synthesize information overload in a uniquely useful format. Continue Reading
Pod Drop features new, interesting, and returning podcasts. Today: The No Sports Report from Treefort Media, Doctor’s Log from Cadence13, and The Refuge from PRX. Continue Reading
Short-form video has been a huge focus for Internet and media culture, and the field could be seeing some shifts. First, TikTok is moving to make its massively popular platform more in line with the major labels. Second, YouTube isn’t going to cede its video crown to the newer rival just yet. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web. Today’s items include a Google Podcasts AMA, some figures from a Russian streaming service, and more of the latest on how the music industry is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Continue Reading
Anchor, the streamlined podcast creation platform owned by Spotify, announced an update to its analytics tools. The service is adding more metrics for podcasters powered by Spotify. The new charts on the Anchor dashboard are based on data coming from Spotify streams rather than from download counts or from RSS feeds. Continue Reading