by Steve Goldstein
“The podcast wars are here,” says Steve Goldstein in this guest column. With comparisons to baseball, TV, and satellit radio, Goldstein lays out the anatomy of podcasting’s new competitive parameters. It’s not about just getting users to sign up for Premium service — Daniel Ek is going after radio. Read this exceptional anlysis. Continue Reading
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
Three new (one returning) podcasts! Stay Human (Michael Franti) / Homemade (Allrecipes) / Stroke of Genius (IPO Educational Foundation)
Podtrac has released the May edition of the measurement company’s Top Podcast Publishers ranker. (See graphic below.) iHeartRadio resides in the #1 spot, closely followed by NPR. The ranker shows the number of active shows owned by each of the… Continue Reading
Edison Research released its Top Ten U.S. ZPodcast Ranker for the first quarter of 2020. This ranker measures podcasts in America by reach, not downloads, among weekly podcast consumers. In this precise measurement, the quarterly report is unique. If you’re not in the mood to guess the #1 podcast, click through. Click through anyway to see the infographic list. Continue Reading
Triton Digital has released its latest U.S. Podcast Report, covering downloads and audience rankings for the 4-week period of April 13 through May 10. In this edition, Audioboom makes its debut as a Triton-measured podcast entity represented in the report. Continue Reading
Pod Drop features new and returning podcasts. Today, great music from a legend, great fiction starring kids, and a harrowing true story of governmental abduction. Continue Reading
Edison Research and Triton Digital unveiled the third annual Infinite Dial Canada, a consumer study of how Canadian adults (18+) listen to audio and own audio technology. In a live webinar, Edison SVP Tom Webster and Triton SVP Stephanie Donovan presented and discussed the slides. Online audio listening and podcast listening are as vigorous as in the U.S. Continue Reading
Signal Hill Insights has released a spring 2020 update to its annual Canadian Podcast Listener consumer survey. The timing of the update facilitated questions about Joe Rogan’s upcoming move to exclusive Spotify distribution. There are also interesting metrics about how… Continue Reading
Podtrac sent us the latest weekly update of U.S. podcast listening, both in downloads and audience, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (You can see everything HERE.) Podtrac also informed us that this is the last installment of its weekly COVID-19 tracking. “Things are getting back to normal on a weekly basis,” CEO Mark McCrery told RAIN. Continue Reading
WideOrbit is announcing a partnership with programmatic platform Rubicon Project, exposing WideOrbit’s network of audio publishers to Rubicon’s ad buyers. WideOrbit’s client list includes audio services, platforms, networks, radio broadcasters, and audio content publishers. Continue Reading
In the latest of a series of recent press releases, Triton Digital is announcing a multi-language extension to its subsidiary, podcast platform Omny Studio. In addition to English, the renowned podcast solution is now available for use in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. It’s not about translating podcasts, but the Omny Studio publishing experience. Continue Reading