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Thursday, April 18, 2024
👉A brand new microphone, the Lewitt Audio Ray, has been launched… with a laser. The microphone has what it calls “autofocus” for sound, tuning the voice depending on how close, or far away, the person is from the microphone. It’s a new and novel idea; our review says it could be an excellent guest microphone, or for use on camera.
👉Rephonic has started rolling out details of Spotify follower numbers for every podcast in its directory. The data appeared in some users’ apps a few weeks ago.
👉Seems that the HotPod “hiatus” will be longer than first thought: all subscribers to the newsletter have had their paid subscriptions refunded. (If that refund is burning a hole in your pocket and you’d like to support us…)
👉How many podcasts make it to 5 or more episodes? Only half of them, says data from the Podcast Index.
👉Libsyn Ads has announced a partnership to represent the Toronto Star’s podcasts for ad sales.
👉There's More To Read: HERE
👉Parcast founder Max Cutler has announced the launch of a new media company, Pave Studios. “Positioned across video, audio, books and entertainment”, the release appears careful not to use the word “podcast” (though the video does).Spotify bought Parcast in 2019 for more than $100mn; Cutler left Spotify in Feb 2023, the Parcast brand was combined into Spotify Studios last year.
👉UK media regulator Ofcom has released data on audio listening in the UK. The raw data is also available in full, and Adam Bowie has looked more closely into the data. He discovers that podcast listening is not growing overall in the country; but there has been a marked growth in younger listeners. Spotify, BBC Sounds and YouTube appear high in the list for podcast apps.
👉In the US, the IAB has released the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report. Total internet ad revenue grew 7.3% in 2023. Internet audio, including podcasts, grew 18.9% to $7.2bn. We’ll learn the podcast revenue numbers on May 9.
👉The Podcast Standards Project has announced that more than 2.5mn podcast episodes now feature creator-supplied transcripts using the open <podcast:transcript> standard. Those Podcasting 2.0 transcripts are visible in apps like Apple Podcasts, Podcast Addict, Fountain and Podcast Guru as well as many others.Doing your own transcripts in the RSS feed means you can add speaker names to your transcripts and correct mis-spellings.
👉Inspired by Ashley Carman’s recent article in Bloomberg, The Podglomerate has produced a list of almost the top 1,000 shows from Spotify. The company says it’s great for research, pitching and general navel-gazing.
👉Spotify for Podcasters has added team management to its list of features, allowing you to invite other members of your team to manage your podcast.
👉Expect some internet ad revenue numbers from the IAB later today.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
👉UK media regulator Ofcom has released data on audio listening in the UK. The raw data is also available in full, and Adam Bowie has looked more closely into the data. He discovers that podcast listening is not growing overall in the country; but there has been a marked growth in younger listeners. Spotify, BBC Sounds and YouTube appear high in the list for podcast apps.
👉In the US, the IAB has released the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report. Total internet ad revenue grew 7.3% in 2023. Internet audio, including podcasts, grew 18.9% to $7.2bn. We’ll learn the podcast revenue numbers on May 9.
👉There's More To Read: HERE
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
👉The Podcast Standards Project has announced that more than 2.5mn podcast episodes now feature creator-supplied transcripts using the open <podcast:transcript> standard. Those Podcasting 2.0 transcripts are visible in apps like Apple Podcasts, Podcast Addict, Fountain and Podcast Guru as well as many others.Doing your own transcripts in the RSS feed means you can add speaker names to your transcripts and correct mis-spellings.
👉Inspired by Ashley Carman’s recent article in Bloomberg, The Podglomerate has produced a list of almost the top 1,000 shows from Spotify. The company says it’s great for research, pitching and general navel-gazing.
👉Spotify for Podcasters has added team management to its list of features, allowing you to invite other members of your team to manage your podcast.
👉Expect some internet ad revenue numbers from the IAB later today.
👉Android Police share five things we will miss about Google Podcasts now that it’s dead. (The app is alive and well in every country outside the US until June 24).
👉There's More To Read: HERE
👉Podcast monetisation company Audioboom released its Q1/24 financial results. The figures show an 11% year-on-year growth in revenue, continued EBITDA profit, and eCPM (revenue per thousand listens) of a record $52.17.Things have changed - five years ago, the company’s eCPM was $23.77.
👉Production tool Alitu now includes “magic filters” to automatically remove ums, ahs, filler words and long silences. The company says its the result of customer feedback.
👉Equipment manufacturer RØDE has launched a number of new products at NAB 2024, which is taking place in Las Vegas currently. The Interview Pro microphone is a handheld wireless microphone with on-board recording; the company also announced an iPhone filming mount and magnetic microphone holder for iPhone.
👉Jordan Harbinger has jumped (back) into LinkedIn, and has been posting gems like how he advertises his podcast, the benefit of preparation, and much more.
👉Radio and podcast company Audacy has partnered with synthetic voice company ElevenLabs to “augment its existing programming and production workflows”.
👉Hot Pod, one of the longest-running newsletters about podcasting, is to suspend publishing. Lead reporter Ariel Shapiro has announced that her last week with its owner, The Verge, will be next week; Deputy Editor Jake Kastrenakes adds: “We won’t have a new writer in place by next week, so we’re planning to put Hot Pod on hiatus while we figure out next steps.” The publication’s writers, Ariel Shapiro, Ashley Carman and Nick Quah, have been a vital part of the industry since 2014 and inspired Podnews to produce this daily newsletter in 2017. We hope the publication is back soon.
👉“In October last year, Stephen posted on LinkedIn that he had ambitions to launch a podcast network: an open call for anyone to contact him that felt they could add value to the podcast media industry. Georgie and I saw it, and we pulled together an email that summarised a little bit about us. And then you can imagine our surprise - we included a hyperlink to schedule a meeting yourself, and a couple of days later I was in a co-working space with Georgia, got an email, and I must say I screamed.” The Podnews Weekly Review this week has an interview with Georgie Holt and Christiana Brenton of Stephen Bartlett’s new company Flight Studio, plus an Indian podcast app and a new sales company based in New York.
👉The Podcast Standards Project met recently in Los Angeles. Sam Sethi was made Chief Evangelist. The group has been meeting regularly since its launch; Podnews will help with press coverage, but won’t be in the group to allow discussions to be made without “the press” being present.
Monday, April 15, 2024
👉Podcast monetisation company Audioboom released its Q1/24 financial results. The figures show an 11% year-on-year growth in revenue, continued EBITDA profit, and eCPM (revenue per thousand listens) of a record $52.17.Things have changed - five years ago, the company’s eCPM was $23.77.
👉Production tool Alitu now includes “magic filters” to automatically remove ums, ahs, filler words and long silences. The company says its the result of customer feedback.
👉Equipment manufacturer RØDE has launched a number of new products at NAB 2024, which is taking place in Las Vegas currently. The Interview Pro microphone is a handheld wireless microphone with on-board recording; the company also announced an iPhone filming mount and magnetic microphone holder for iPhone.
👉Jordan Harbinger has jumped (back) into LinkedIn, and has been posting gems like how he advertises his podcast, the benefit of preparation, and much more.
👉Radio and podcast company Audacy has partnered with synthetic voice company ElevenLabs to “augment its existing programming and production workflows”.
👉There's More To Read: HERE
Friday, April 12, 2024
👉Hot Pod, one of the longest-running newsletters about podcasting, is to suspend publishing. Lead reporter Ariel Shapiro has announced that her last week with its owner, The Verge, will be next week; Deputy Editor Jake Kastrenakes adds: “We won’t have a new writer in place by next week, so we’re planning to put Hot Pod on hiatus while we figure out next steps.” The publication’s writers, Ariel Shapiro, Ashley Carman and Nick Quah, have been a vital part of the industry since 2014 and inspired Podnews to produce this daily newsletter in 2017. We hope the publication is back soon.
👉“In October last year, Stephen posted on LinkedIn that he had ambitions to launch a podcast network: an open call for anyone to contact him that felt they could add value to the podcast media industry. Georgie and I saw it, and we pulled together an email that summarised a little bit about us. And then you can imagine our surprise - we included a hyperlink to schedule a meeting yourself, and a couple of days later I was in a co-working space with Georgia, got an email, and I must say I screamed.” The Podnews Weekly Review this week has an interview with Georgie Holt and Christiana Brenton of Stephen Bartlett’s new company Flight Studio, plus an Indian podcast app and a new sales company based in New York.
👉The Podcast Standards Project met recently in Los Angeles. Sam Sethi was made Chief Evangelist. The group has been meeting regularly since its launch; Podnews will help with press coverage, but won’t be in the group to allow discussions to be made without “the press” being present.
👉There's More To Read: HERE
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