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January 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.

October 6, 2023:

Audacy has skipped a $18mn loan payment. The broadcaster, which owns a number of podcast companies, has a 30-day grace period; it's talking with lenders to refinance its debt.

September 8, 2023:

Audience measurement company Nielsen is laying off 9% of its global workforce - potentially more than 1,000 people.

August 9, 2023:

Nielsen will collect diary data on podcast listening, reports the iHeart-owned Inside Radio. An "electronic diary" will ask respondents about all the audio listening they do, not just AM/FM radio. Online diaries have been in use in the UK since 2011; Nielsen's electronic diary will be fully deployed in 200 US markets by the second half of 2025.

May 31, 2023:

The radio.com domain appears to have been withdrawn from auction. It still forwards to its owner, Audacy; it went on sale in January with a starting price of $2.5mn.

May 15, 2023:

iHeartMedia announced Ruby, a branded podcast unit that's already working with Quickbooks and IBM. Lst week SMI said that US spending on branded podcasts was up 51% year-on-year in Q1.

May 10, 2023:

Podcast ad spending in the US was up 43.7% year-on-year, according to SMI, a media analysis company. "There has not been any sort of pullback in advertising on podcasts due to economic pressures," the company says. Podcasting has 26% of all digital audio spend, however: the majority goes to streaming audio.

January 16, 2023:

Measurement and research company Nielsen is to restructure and will reduce headcount by "hundreds". Meanwhile, AI company SoundHound has laid off half its remaining employees. Its technology is used by companies like Audacy, Pandora and Netflix.

January 3, 2023:

RADIO.COM for sale It's only $2.5m. And that's the starting price.

November 30, 2022:

The Blast Mic is a high quality, lossless audio microphone that, they say, lets you go live from anywhere, or record and wirelessly download a WAV to your editor. The company calls it a "professional radio broadcast studio in your hand", and have given us PODNEWS20 as a 20% discount code if you want one.

August 26, 2022:

Inside Radio has published its annual list of the "most powerful people in podcasting". The publication, which is owned by a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, has side-stepped criticism after consistently placing iHeart's Conal Byrne in the #1 slot in previous years; the new list, which has grown from 10 to fifty people, is now in alphabetical order.

June 29, 2022:

Radio veteran David Lloyd wonders whether anyone knows how to edit audio any more. "I screamed half-way through one lengthy interview recently. Whilst I was thoroughly interested in the topic - and the interviewee knew their stuff - they fell into laboured errrrs and ummmms which, after the first half an hour graduated from being just annoying to almost driving me to violence. Why bother creating an unlistenable podcast?" He gives tips to make things better.

June 1, 2022:

More oldest podcast guest info: An honourable mention to Out of the Box from FBi Radio, which in 2014, interviewed Eileen Kramer (aged 99 at the time). Now aged 107, Eileen is still with us, and has a book to sell, so if you wanted to be a record-breaker, you only have to get her onto your podcast...

December 6, 2021:

After dismal audience figures, the all-podcast radio format has been dropped by iHeartRadio from its two AM stations KABQ Albuquerque (in favour of Christmas music), and WSAN in Bethlehem PA (in favour of oldies). A radio executive described these stations to Podnews as "poorly executed and confusing" when they launched; iHeart-owned Inside Radio reports that both stations only managed a 0.1% market share. "iHeartPodcast 95.9" WEBG, an FM station, is still airing non-stop podcasts: that station, licenced to serve Mina NY (population 1,016) is audible in parts of Erie PA (pop 94,831).

August 5, 2021:

Inside Radio has unveiled The Most Powerful People In Podcasting 2021: #1 is Conal Byrne, the CEO of iHeart's Digital Audio Group. Inside Radio is owned by iHeartMedia, a fact you won't find disclosed on either company's website.

March 23, 2021:

Advertiser Perceptions has published the Podcast Advertising Marketing Report. Some of the findings are reported by iHeart's Inside Radio.

March 18, 2021:

Libsyn has appointed Douglas Woodrum to its Board of Directors, a former CFO of CNET. In the past, Libsyn has identified significant issues of alleged fraud in China: Woodrum has experience that could help: he's been CFO at ChinaCast Education Corporation since 2012. ChinaCast filed for bankruptcy in 2016 after former CEO Ron Chan allegedly stole $41m from the company. Some former ChinaCast officials are in jail.

March 12, 2021:

Meanwhile, iHeartRadio's Inside Radio reports data from Edison Research's Share of Ear study (Q4 2020). That claims that podcast listening accounts for 6% of all audio consumption; radio (AM/FM and SiriusXM) takes almost eight times that (47%). There's plenty more space to grow.

March 4, 2021:

Peter Morris, the CEO of PodcastOne, has marked his end date as January in LinkedIn. He was announced as CEO in February 2019; the company was acquired by LiveXLive in July last year.

February 18, 2021:

iHeartMedia also owns podcast hosts Voxnest and Spreaker, podcast producer How Stuff Works, Mediabase and Media Monitors, radio software company RCS, and radio news website Inside Radio.

December 30, 2020:

An amusing press release from Superhuman Public Radio, announcing a new logo, is the result of a request from NPR, we learn. The co-executive producers of SPR tell us: "NPR asked us to change our logo, which we did. We are just thrilled that after debuting just a month and a half ago we can count them among our listeners. We have nothing but admiration for NPR. Having their staff among our fans is a big win for us. Our exchanges with them have only confirmed our suspicion that we have something special on our hands."

December 8, 2020:

Podcasting is becoming a more effective place to advertise, according to a survey of local advertisers, and is already more effective than newspapers, radio or TV advertising, according to results reported in iHeartRadio's InsideRadio.

August 11, 2020:

InsideRadio has published a list of "the top 10 most powerful people in podcasting". Conal Byrne, who runs the iHeartPodcast Network, is deservedly awarded the #1 slot by the publication's editorial board. InsideRadio is owned by a subsidiary of iHeartMedia.

August 5, 2020:

The biggest radio advertiser in the US last week was the podcast Forgotten: Women of Juárez, with 71,630 spots - beating the second-biggest advertiser, insurance company Progressive, which had 53,260 spots. The podcast is owned by iHeartRadio, as are the radio stations the ads aired on, the website that reported on the story, and the monitoring company that released the data.

July 2, 2020:

The iHeart-owned InsideRadio has published two reports on Voxnest's Podcast Advertising Industry Summit. Advertisers are sticking with podcasts, and podcasters are warming to programmatic buying. They're two great précis pieces of the event.

April 1, 2020:

RADIO·COM has released its ten most-listened-to podcasts, if you're interested. The number one is Unlocking Us - and either the platform doesn't carry Joe Rogan or the world's gone wrong, because he doesn't appear in the top ten at all.

January 17, 2020:

iHeart-owned Inside Radio interviews former iHeart employee Owen Grover about Pocket Casts. "We have seen well over 20% growth in our number of users just in the past two months," Grover says.

December 30, 2019:

iHeartRadio have launched a third all-podcast radio station. Listeners in Erie PA will find the iHeartRadio Podcast Channel on WLTM, 95.9 FM. It joins Allentown-Bethlehem PA's WSAN 1470 AM, and Albuquerque NM, KABQ 1350 AM. It's the first podcast station to make it to FM in the US, reports iHeartRadio-owned Inside Radio.

December 12, 2019:

Commercial Radio Australia has published videos of their interview with Teacher's Pet journalist Hedley Thomas; and two conference sessions Content vs Commercial: which comes first in podcasting and Podcast Essentials for 2019 and beyond. These were recorded at their RadioAlive conference earlier this year in Brisbane QLD, Australia.

November 11, 2019:

Triton Digital paid $8.5m for Omny Studio, it was revealed in owner Scripps's earnings call. Triton Digital revenue is down more than 10% but is refocusing on core businesses. Revenue at Stitcher is up by 41.4%, says the iHeart-owned InsideRadio.

September 5, 2019:

A company called SoundStripe is setting itself up as a competitor to Podcast Music for commercial music licensing, according to the iHeart-owned InsideRadio. Meanwhile, Podcast Music's service does not appear to yet have any record label agreements.

September 3, 2019:

A third of radio personalities are doing a podcast, according to a survey from Jacobs Media.

August 20, 2019:

Of the 39% of smart speaker owners who've tried to listen to a podcast through it, only 26% have succeeded, according to Voicebot.

August 9, 2019:

InsideRadio/PodcastNewsDaily has published The Most Powerful People In Podcasting. Conal Byrne, president of the iHeartPodcast Network, is deservedly at #1. For the record, the publication is owned by iHeartRadio.

July 26, 2019:

Apple has been criticised by the Wall Street Journal for unfair prominence, apparently putting their apps first on Apple's App Store searches.

May 27, 2019:

Libsyn plans to launch a new advertising platform created specifically for podcasters; and is looking to expand its business outside the US, according to their quarterly investor phone call..

May 2, 2019:

More radio activity - Corey Layton has been hired by ARN, an Australian radio broadcaster, as Commercial Product and Audio Partnerships Director. He joins the company from Whooshkaa, the Australian podcast host. ARN has also signed a licence extension for the iHeartRadio platform in Australia until 2036. In the US, iHeartMedia itself has completed its restructuring, and owes just US$5.75bn instead of $16.1bn.

March 14, 2019:

The iHeart Podcast Channel on AM 1470 in Allentown-Bethlehem PA, USA, is the first station owned by iHeartRadio that will just air "the most creative stories from over 25,000 podcasts available on our free iHeartRadio app", according to iHeart-owned InsideRadio, which also reproduces a program schedule. The station, WSAN, had a 0.3 share (12+) with its previous format of spanish-language sport from ESPN; it covers 728,100 people.

March 11, 2019:

Metrics for the podcasting industry remains an issue with some. Inside Radio report on the metrics discussions at the RAIN Podcast Business Summit last week. Your Editor moderated a panel - mention of his sparkling repartee is, remarkably, absent.

February 26, 2019:

Dr Phil wants to produce a true crime podcast. He's already producing Phil In The Blanks; and apparently Apple flew some of its staff in to help his team launch it.

February 25, 2019:

Commercial radio in Australia have recommended to government that there be a legal requirement to remove links to podcasts and live streams on request of the content owners. Says Joan Warner, the CEO of the lobby group Commercial Radio Australia:

February 19, 2019:

The #2 radio advertiser in 2017 is now also the #2 podcast advertiser, according to data from Magellan's podcast ad report for January. Magellan details all 110 ads the company found in the US top 2,000 Apple Podcasts trending chart. The top three: #3 Indeed, #2 Geico, and #1 ZipRecruiter. While this does show that US radio's $15.9bn annual revenue is beginning to come to podcasting (which stands at a more meagre $314m), none of radio's other big advertisers are yet visible in the podcast top 15.

February 8, 2019:

Entercom's radio·com, a radio and podcasting app, has added third-party content from CNN, Bloomberg, and the Turner Podcast Network. (You can submit your podcast to radio·com from our big list).

January 10, 2019:

The top 10 US radio advertisers for 2018 have been published by Inside Radio. Of possible interest: not one advertiser is in the top 15 US podcasting advertisers for October.

January 9, 2019:

CES #2: iHeartRadio will now be integrated into the Honda Dream Drive Platform, Roku devices, and Google’s Android TV and Android Auto, along with Bixby, Samsung’s voice-powered digital assistant.". The platform is only available in a few countries, including the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

November 30, 2018:

Global, the UK broadcaster, has added 1,500 third-party podcasts to its popular Global Player and radio apps (iOS only for now). Here's how they're promoting it, and more details from Digiday. The podcasts added come from variety of publishers, including the BBC and Serial; and also contains some 'Global Original' podcasts, made by the company. Global also owns DAX, a programmatic audio ad platform, in the UK, US and Canada.

November 27, 2018:

Thank you to the Weird Tales Radio Show who are our newest silver supporter. They've helped us be able to spend time today on our image resizing script, significantly making all our supporter logos look better and clearer on the web, whatever device you have.

November 22, 2018:

Thanks to Deezer for making podcasts available within their app in Colombia. The app now contains more than 20,000 podcasts in five different languages: this one's good; you can add yours to Deezer and other places. The company also released some data regarding podcast listening in Colombia: 39% of podcast listeners are between 26-35; 32% are aged 36-45. Only 15% of 16-25 year-olds listen; and audiences are predominantly male.

November 1, 2018:

Radio 'embraces fluidity between broadcasting and podcasting', according to a piece from Inside Radio. It highlights how radio stations can improve their ratings with podcasts.

August 3, 2018:

Back: For three new chapters, Cadence13's Origins with James Andrew Miller. The episode planned for 12 September goes behind the scenes at Saturday Night Live; it's hosted with ART19. Also back: Eagles BGN Radio, now called Go Birds and relaunched by US broadcaster Entercom.

April 25, 2018:

Otto Radio now list Podnews as a podcast. We've added it to our big list, which also shows you how to claim your podcast on the service.

March 27, 2018:

The Australian Commercial Radio Awards this year, for the first time, has three podcast categories. Joan Warner, CEO of Commercial Radio Australia, says: "Radio is now once again leading the way in producing and commissioning original, cutting-edge podcasts on topics ranging from arts and comedy to social commentary, sport, health and politics. Radio is key to driving the future success of the podcast sector." You need to be a CRA member to enter.

March 23, 2018:

In the US, ABC News is planning to launch a competing daily podcast to The Daily and Up First, Variety reports. It's called Start Here, and it will be released on March 28th. The ABC already produce a number of podcasts.

January 15, 2018:

A feature on WGN Radio, a station in Chicago IL, USA, looking at local podcasting.

January 4, 2018:

On Tuesday we reported on highly inflated figures from iHeartMedia on Podtrac's charts. Yesterday, Podtrac removed iHeartMedia from all of their ratings charts. Today, iHeartMedia have made a statement to InsideRadio, saying in part: "We are working through with Podtrac what constitutes listening."

December 29, 2017:

Commercial radio rules short-form podcasts, claims US radio publication InsideRadio, quoting from the Podtrac data for 'snackable' podcasts. RAIN quotes Podtrac CEO Mark McCrery as saying the #1, Trending Songs: Pop, fulfilled all the “technical definition and delivery rules of a podcast”. We'll return to this subject on Monday.

December 21, 2017:

Are you a sports podcaster? CitiSport Radio is a new sports station on AM and DAB in London, which launches in early 2018 to a potential 12m listeners. By email, they say "CitiSport wants to support podcasters as much as we can and will be looking to work with podcasters to help promote their talents once we launch. If anyone has created content about any sport globally and that they think is good enough to be broadcast then we want to hear from them." The email to use is jobs@citisportradio.com

November 20, 2017:

US radio groups want a piece of the podcasting action, reports Inside Radio - including aggressive steps from Entercom (who have just completed their takeover of CBS Radio).

October 26, 2017:

ABC Radio - the US one - produces a six episode crime podcast designed to be marketing for a TV show at the end of November.

October 12, 2017:

The Radio Alive conference in Melbourne tomorrow will feature, among many other talks and events, podnews publisher James Cridland talking with Sharon Taylor from Omny Studio and Benjamin Masse from Triton Digital.

September 27, 2017:

PodcastOne boss, Norm Pattiz, is alleged to have insisted an employee artificially inflate download numbers - by waving a gun at him. Pattiz denies it all.

June 16, 2017:

Podcasting reaches 10% of people in Australia.