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
Bill K. Griffith is a 44-year-old coach, teacher, and motivator that recently moved to the Western Slope. Primarily being a football coach in his professional career, his focus has always been more than inspiring his athletes to go beyond their physical abilities. Challenging his athletes to use the power of positive thoughts has always intrigued him. Since 2001, when he began his coaching career, the teams he coached for always seemed to accomplish victories on and off the field. However, Bill K. Griffith has gone through a transition in his life that has altered his approach to coaching entirely. Because of his battle with addiction and depression, his marriage crumbled, and he found himself alone, searching for answers. Going within himself, he found those answers through spiritual healing. Refusing to be a victim of any circumstance, Coach Griff as his players/students call him has started a podcast. “Cope Hope or
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
While in sixth grade, Matt Lupi learned what it meant to hustle. You hear the word “hustle” used by many entrepreneurs as they describe their around-the-clock work ethic and determination, but it is a rare trait for a middle school kid. Growing up, Matt never yet knew the stories of our country’s most significant business leaders and how they made their fortunes. Instead, he was taught the value of hard work from his father and grandfather and ran with it. Matt Lupi’s First Business Venture Sitting in school from 8 am to 3 pm, Matt eagerly awaited for that final bell to ring, for this was when life began for him. The work day started before he even stepped inside his house, as he braided paracord bracelets on the bus, getting a head start on the dozens of orders he would have that night. Matt saw a trend and capitalized on it.
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…