The winners of the first ever Independent Podcast Awards were revealed on Monday 30th October, with Celebrity Catch Up: Life After That Thing I Did taking home the top prize. The podcast’s host is Genevieve Hassen. The winner of the Independent Podcast of the Year category was chosen from the winners of all the other
Los Angeles-based, Emmy Award-winning Asylum Entertainment Group (Asylum), announced the hire of seasoned audio pioneer Chris Corcoran to run its leading audio-forward division Audity (Kim Kardashian’s The System: The Case of Kevin Keith, Hillsong: A Megachurch Shattered, Ice T’s Daily Game). Corcoran, a Founding Partner of Cadence13, joins Audity as General Manager and Chief Content
Triton Digital, the global technology and services leader to the digital audio, podcast, and broadcast radio industries, announced today the release of the latest Australian Podcast Ranker. The Ranker provides insight into the Top 150 Podcast as well as the Top 150 Australian-Made Podcasts, the Top Publishers in Australia, and the Top Sales Representatives in
Edison Research, provider of Edison Podcast Metrics, the largest and most complete survey of podcast listening, announced today that it has developed a complementary service to count downloads for participating publishers. After months of research, Edison is utilizing a new method for determining U.S. downloads that does not employ a redirect nor involve delivery of
Spring – the industry-defining creator commerce platform – announced a new partnership with Acast, the world’s leading independent podcast company. Under a shared mission of empowering creators to make money from their own work and further engage with their audience, the new partnership allows podcasters to create their own online stores for free – offering
iHeartMedia, Inc., the leading audio company in America, announced that it has named Sarah van Mosel as Executive Vice President of the iHeart Audience Network (iAN). The iHeart Audience Network – the next evolution of audience-based buying – is a new service from iHeart that simplifies audio advertising. With inventory sourced from the expansive iHeartRadio…
Triton Digital, the global technology and services provider to the digital audio and podcast industry, announced the release of the latest U.S. Podcast Report for the March 2022 reporting period (February 28 – April 3, 2022) as measured by Triton’s Podcast Metrics measurement service. Yet again, Stitcher Media remained in the #1 spot on the…
Former President Barack Obama, and Former First Lady Michelle Obama, will not renew their exclusive partnership with Spotify, according to three people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg appears to be the first to report this news. The former first family’s production company, Higher Ground, won’t be signing a new deal with the audio platform according…
Sony Music Entertainment’s (SME) Global Podcast Division announced the appointment of Serita Wesley to the newly created role of U.S. Entertainment Podcasts. Wesley will be based in New York and report to Tom Koenig, Vice President, U.S. Podcasts. In her new role, Wesley will spearhead the Division’s entertainment podcast strategy and oversee the development of…
SiriusXM announced the launch of a new Freakonomics Radio Network streaming channel. For this channel, the first to be dedicated to a podcast, the team behind Freakonomics Radio, one of the most enduring and popular podcasts in the world, will curate and present episodes from its deep archive, along with selections from other popular shows…
Public media organization PRX – one of the world’s leading podcast publishers – announced a new round of the Google Podcasts creator program, a podcast accelerator and training program for audio producers around the world. PRX launched the Google Podcasts creator program in 2018 with a mission to help build a global, empowered audio community.…
Liberated Syndication Inc., (“Libsyn” or “the Company”), the industry’s leading podcast hosting platform and advertising marketplace, provided an update on podcast advertising rates. These rates, which are denoted as cost per thousand or CPM, are published monthly by Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast, the industry’s leading podcast advertising marketplace connecting advertisers to podcasters. The data is derived from…