Cadence13
This company is no longer trading under this name
Owned by: Audacy
Latest news
- Jun 27: Audacy shut Cadence13 (a $50mn purchase) in Mar 2024, and rebranded Podcorn ($22.5mn) as Audacy Creator Lab in April this year. Meanwhile, Audacy’s purchase of Moonbeam, a podcast discovery app in Jul 2022, also appears to have come to nothing: the website is now owned by a company in Ukraine. An Audacy spokesperson didn’t return our request for more detail about Moonbeam.
- May 2: Chris Corcoran, the founding partner and former Chief Content Officer at Cadence13, has launched In the Arena Studios, a multimedia podcast content studio. “I’m so excited to collaborate with incredible talent on these franchise brands and to build a studio that has a real emotional and influential connection to its audience”, Corcoran says.
- Mar 22, 2024: In future, Cadence13 is to be known as “Audacy Podcasts” as part of a reorganisation. Podnews spotted in October that Audacy had stopped using the Cadence13 brand; that’s now official, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
- Jan 24, 2024: US broadcaster Audacy, which recently filed for bankruptcy protection, has a new business plan which includes an audio subscription service, according to iHeart-owned Inside Radio. Audacy says it could deliver “as much as $20 million in revenue by 2027”. The company owns a number of podcast companies including Cadence13 and Pineapple Street.
- Jan 10, 2024: Last September, we reported that Tenderfoot TV was suing Audacy’s Cadence13 for breach of contract. A joint statement was released yesterday, saying: "Tenderfoot and Audacy have reached an agreement. Their work together on some of the biggest podcast franchises in the space continued uninterrupted throughout the litigation period, and the companies look forward to continuing their successful partnership on future projects." Terms weren’t given; the relationship lasts until 2026. Audacy has filed for bankruptcy.
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