Moonbeam
This company is no longer trading under this name
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Website: www.moonbeam.fm
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 18, 2023: Audacy, which owns Cadence13, Pineapple Street Studios, Podcorn and Moonbeam, is to be delisted from the stock market for having an "abnormally low" share price. The company plans to appeal. $200 invested in Audacy this time last year would be worth just over $10 today.
- Feb 20, 2023: Now that Apple Podcasts is implementing the code to stop using "AppleCoreMedia" as its useragent in some circumstances, here are the other apps that need fixing, according to John Spurlock: Podbean, Castro, Fountain, Podcast Republic, Moonbeam, Playapod, Pods, Bullhorn, Luminary, Listen App, and Audible. That means all those apps appear smaller thank they should be in podcast analytics.
- Aug 17, 2021: Podcast discovery and listening app Moonbeam now offers ratings and reviews powered by Podchaser. It's the latest company to use Podchaser's data.
- Aug 6, 2021: Moonbeam 'wants to be TikTok for podcasts', according to an article in The Hustle. A curated clips podcast, it's from entrepreneur Paul English.
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