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AudioBoom PLC is an on-demand audio and podcasting distribution platform. AudioBoom offers business-to-business services to the radio, media and podcast industries. Wikipedia
Website: audioboom.com
Symbol: LON:BOOM
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About Audioboom
Audioboom is a global leader in podcasting - our shows are downloaded 100 million times each month by 35 million unique listeners around the world. Audioboom is ranked as the fifth largest podcast publisher in the US by Edison Research.
Audioboom's ad-tech and monetisation platform underpins a scalable content business that provides commercial, distribution, marketing and production services for a premium network of top tier podcasts. Key partners include the official Formula 1 podcasts ‘F1: Beyond the Grid’ and ‘F1 Nation’, 'True Crime Obsessed' (US), ‘The Tim Dillon Show' (US), 'No Such Thing As A Fish' (UK) and 'The Cycling Podcast' (UK).
For more information, visit audioboom.com
Latest news
- Jul 18: Audioboom apparently paid £10mn ($13.4mn) for Adelicious, suggests Law360. (We covered the purchase yesterday). Meanwhile, Audioboom’s chairman, Michael Tobin, purchased a further £1mn-worth of shares.
- Jul 17: Audioboom has acquired the UK podcast network Adelicious. The combination of the businesses will create the UK’s largest homegrown podcast network with 40mn unique listeners, and more than 125mn monthly downloads and views. Adelicious will continue as a brand.
- Jul 8: Audioboom released its Q2/2025 trading update. The company made 5% more revenue year-on-year, but five times the profit: $1.2mn. Total consumption (in downloads/views) was up 5%.
- May 13: Michael Tobin, the non-exec Chairman of Audioboom, has bought another £1,958,000 (US $2.6mn) in Audioboom shares. He now owns about 5.4% of the company.
- May 9: The Podglomerate's Podcast Perspectives speaks this week with Audioboom CEO Stuart Last, to discuss monetization strategies for podcasters and how independent creators can set up their shows for success.
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