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January 8, 2024:
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SoundCloud is up for sale. The music service, which made 10% of its workforce redundant last year, is preparing for a sale worth up to $1bn.
December 14, 2023:
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Stew Cornelius has joined Acast as an Account Director based in NYC. Stew has a broad background in media and has held roles at Turner Broadcasting, Hulu, and Twitter. Andrew Mongarella is a new Account Director with Acast in NYC. Andrew has spent the bulk of his career in digital audio sales with roles at SiriusXM and SoundCloud.
May 29, 2023:
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We wrote a piece on how to choose the best podcast host. SoundCloud isn't it.
May 18, 2023:
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Ever wanted the RSS feed for that podcast? You can either just search for the show name in Podnews, or try this tool from PodcastAddict that understands Apple, Google, Soundcloud and other URLs.
April 11, 2023:
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SiriusXM's AdsWizz will continue as SoundCloud's sole sales partner in mainland Europe until the end of next year.
February 2, 2023:
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Last month, Buzzsprout saw a market share growth of almost a percentage point, according to John Spurlock's LiveWire. RSS·com overtook iVoox to become the #9 biggest podcast hosting company, as measured by total new episodes published; Megaphone overtook Soundcloud to reach #7.
September 8, 2022:
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Podcasts hosted on SoundCloud have, for the past week, not been appearing on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Multiple podcasters have reported the issue but we understand it doesn't appear to be fixed.
August 16, 2022:
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Global's DAX has retained its exclusive ad sales contract with SoundCloud, and is to add new opportunities for advertisers.
August 5, 2022:
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SoundCloud is to lay off 'up to 20%' of its global workforce. The company blames "a significant company transformation" and a challenging economy.
October 8, 2021:
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A market share of podcast hosts based by new episodes has been published for September. John Spurlock's Livewire Labs has produced the data: Anchor published the most new episodes, with Buzzsprout, Spreaker, Libsyn and Soundcloud also in the top five.
October 4, 2021:
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David Couch has joined podcast publisher Auddy as Chief Revenue Officer. He joins from Deezer and SoundCloud.
September 17, 2021:
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Audio ads on SoundCloud in the Nordic countries will now be sold by Bauer Media Audio, after they signed an agreement with AdsWizz.
June 30, 2021:
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SoundCloud has permanently banned Things You Should Ngo, says the host, the controversial writer Andy Ngô. The last episode was uploaded more than a year ago. You can still listen on YouTube, he says.
May 31, 2021:
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Last week, Anchor hoovered up plenty of paid-for podcasts, but also lost plenty too, according to our sample. SoundCloud was the biggest loser, with 20 losses; Megaphone was the paid podcast host gaining the most shows.
May 24, 2021:
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After a short hiatus, our podcast hosting company changes page has returned. As ever, it shows a significant amount of podcasts moving from paid hosting companies to Anchor. Overall, the biggest gains went to Anchor, RedCircle and Megaphone; the biggest losers were Whooshkaa, Soundcloud and Libsyn.
April 20, 2021:
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Within the next few months, the Facebook app will include a podcast player, as part of an upcoming set of "social audio experiences", as initially highlighted by Mark Zuckerburg in a Platformer discussion on Discord. The podcast player will work in the background, and offer live captioning; "RSS" wasn't mentioned in the release or in Zuckerburg's interview. 170 million Facebook users are already connected to a Page for a podcast, the company says. (Here's ours).
March 17, 2021:
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Who is the best podcast host? We've updated our "how to choose" page, with charging structures and Podcasting 2.0. Our recommendation to not use SoundCloud remains intact.
January 20, 2021:
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SoundCloud has signed an ad sales agreement with AdsWizz for 14 European markets. (SiriusXM owns AdsWizz and Pandora, which sells SoundCloud ads in the US; SiriusXM also owns a minority stake in SoundCloud itself.)
January 18, 2021:
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Libsyn has atttracted a big hitter: The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory & Mal were using SoundCloud since their break up with Spotify, but now appear to be hosting with Libsyn. It's the #1 music show in Apple Podcasts in the US.
January 4, 2021:
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In May 2018, Apple asked podcasters to switch to a secure RSS feed. "In the future, a secure feed will be required in order to access Podcast Analytics and submit podcasts", they said in an email. 30 months later, according to a recent dump of the Apple Podcasts database Podnews has been analysing, 85% of podcast feeds are now using HTTPS. The main podcast hosts that haven't switched: SoundCloud (38% of all HTTP feeds), and Feedburner (20%).
December 29, 2020:
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The Verge only had 17 favourite podcasts in 2020. They should listen to more! Randomly chosen: Eggplant: the secret life of games, candid interviews with game creators. We think it's specifically video games, rather than board games.
November 30, 2020:
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SoundCloud, which some use as a podcast host, released their financials for 2019. In 2019, the company lost $28.2m; an improvement from 2018, when they lost $39m.
April 16, 2020:
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Podcastéo has looked at the French podcast industry. In the top 200, the most popular host is Acast (who bought the French company Pippa last year), ART 19 and Soundcloud; for smaller podcasts, the #1 host is Ausha, another French company. As is the case in many emerging markets, repurposed radio material leads the charts.
March 26, 2020:
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The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show calls itself a "lunatic cross between a surreal sketch show and a bizarre parody of a magazine programme", and returns for a new series five years after the last one. This week: the problem of aardvarks, items of furniture sing songs from Oliver and Frank Sinatra saws Big Ben in half. (Recommended) (Soundcloud)
March 6, 2020:
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Inside NWI is a new business podcast from UK-based business development and marketing agency NWI, exploring how a business development agency works. (Soundcloud)
February 12, 2020:
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SiriusXM, the owner of Pandora, has bought a minority stake in Soundcloud for $75m. Soundcloud is used by some podcasters as a podcast host: Pandora already sells advertising on SoundCloud in the US.
February 11, 2020:
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Clever idea: Headliner have produced a Chrome extension to get their product into Soundcloud. The extension adds a Headliner button, for you to make video sharing clips of your SoundCloud audio.
January 31, 2020:
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The Chapo Trap House podcast makes it to Iowa City IA, USA tomorrow. The event in the Engelert Theatre is sold out. The theatre, named after a local family, has a capacity of 725. (Soundcloud)
January 16, 2020:
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Filter Stories, a coffee documentary podcast, is being promoted by RadioPublic today: their website was the first PodSite from the company. (Soundcloud)
December 6, 2019:
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SoundCloud, which some people use as a podcast host, has decided not to change their free upload limits, after their users objected.
December 3, 2019:
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Maximum Media, the owner of Irish publisher Joe·ie, has been accused of using "clickfarms" to grow the figures for its weekly business podcast The Capital B, which was hosted on SoundCloud. An anonymous video claimed the figures "jumped" by many thousands of plays overnight, and showed evidence that many of its SoundCloud users were fake. Ireland's largest media agency has suspended its contracts with the company; its founder, Niall McGarry, has now left the Irish business to focus on the company's business in the UK. Ad agencies are calling for more granular data to help spot click-fraud.
November 18, 2019:
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There were over 11,100,000 new podcast episodes in 2018. Listen Notes have developed a new "stats" page, looking into their database of podcasts (which appears to include all in Apple Podcasts). 21% of podcasts are hosted at Anchor, and a further 11% at Soundcloud, the results show. (Some great data for any pitching documents!)
October 31, 2019:
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Born and Raised is back for a second season - a six part series about love and dating from children of immigrants in Canada. (HuffPost Canada / Soundcloud)
October 28, 2019:
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Sky, a European pay-TV broadcaster, has made a pilot of a Spotify Studios podcast, The Receipts. (Of interest, possibly: that podcast is hosted at Soundcloud).
September 30, 2019:
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The former head of global sales at SoundCloud, Chris Blackburn, has joined DAX in their New York NY, USA team as EVP Sales and Business Development.
September 9, 2019:
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The Times of Israel and the American Jewish Committee have launched a new podcast. Called People of the Pod, it "examines political events, the people driving them, and what it all means for the Jewish people and Israel." It replaces (and is in the same feed as) the AJC Passport podcast. (Soundcloud)
September 3, 2019:
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Book podcast Backlisted has reached episode 100. The milestone episode features Sir Philip Pullman discussing one of his favourite books – Robert Burton’s 1621 1,400-page bestseller, The Anatomy of Melancholy. The discussion was recorded in Pullman’s kitchen, near Oxford. (Soundcloud)
August 30, 2019:
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IKEA Netherlands has released their entire 2020 catalogue in audio form. The audio file, which is more than six hours long, is not available as a podcast, which is possibly a relief to us all.
August 22, 2019:
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Go Simone explores sustainable change and the women inspiring it. The podcast is based in Brisbane QLD, Australia. (Soundcloud)
August 19, 2019:
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Matthew Sweezey writes how he created an award-winning podcast. We first covered Electronic Propaganda Society in May. (Soundcloud)
August 6, 2019:
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The (French-language) TDActu NFL Podcast is inviting its audience to come and take part in episode 300 at the Hard Rock Café in Paris. (Soundcloud)
July 8, 2019:
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NPR report on the Steel City Academy Podcast, which All Things Considered says is a hobby turned into serious journalism. (Soundcloud)
July 1, 2019:
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Just Cases covers "the backstory to some of the biggest court cases you’ve never heard of," and has just started season three: from Jacob Zuma's corruption trial to why governments can fund religious schools. (Monash University / Soundcloud)
June 3, 2019:
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The Very Important Podcast is a branded podcast from air freshener Air Wick, featuring both hosts and guests sitting on the toilet. (SoundCloud)
May 24, 2019:
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SoundCloud have bought Repost Network, a "leading rights management and distribution company". The company works with independent artists to support them, including distribution to 25+ stores and content protection.
May 16, 2019:
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The Italian Wine Podcast, a podcast project dedicated to the Italian wine world, has won an award for best interview (Soundcloud)
April 24, 2019:
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Oh, you want more stats? Try these statistics for the French podcasting market, showing that Pippa is the #4 podcast host in the country, and SoundCloud #3. Ausha is the most popular podcast host - a French company.
March 27, 2019:
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SoundCloud, a podcast and music host, and advertising company TargetSpot have announced exclusive advertising partnerships in France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
March 22, 2019:
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Political Party Live is a podcast from Iowa, and therefore, says the New Yorker, probably why it gets some high profile guests. (SoundCloud)
March 20, 2019:
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Soundcloud has partnered with Southern Cross Austereo for ad representation in Australia.
March 13, 2019:
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Series two of this podcast about religion launches tomorrow, co-hosted by Laura Barclay, a Baptist minister, and Sara Hof, an agnostic. It's a theological, comedic, feminist podcast that examines the bible and modern theology, as well as speak to the overarching commonalities of atheists, agnostics, progressive Christians, and people of other faiths. (Soundcloud)
March 8, 2019:
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DAX, the audio advertising platform, has expanded its relationship with SoundCloud to now include Canada. DAX has represented SoundCloud in the UK since 2016, and launched in Canada in November 2018.
January 30, 2019:
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SoundCloud may have lost a co-founder this week (Jan 28), but Music Business Worldwide reports that its 2017 accounts (just filed in the UK) say that its revenue grew by 80% and topped US$100m. SoundCloud "also surpassed its full year 2018 growth plan".
January 28, 2019:
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Eric Wahlforss, the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of SoundCloud - a service many podcasters use as a host - is stepping down. "This was not an easy decision to make". The company lost Alex Ljung, the other co-founder, as CEO back in July 2017.
January 15, 2019:
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Behind The Numbers, the eMarketer podcast, this week discusses estimates on smart-speaker use around the world. (Soundcloud)
January 3, 2019:
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Supernatural Stories is a show where real people across Canada share their true stories of the supernatural. (Soundcloud)
December 4, 2018:
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Former US Senator Al Franken has released "a podcast" (just an audio file on Soundcloud), seen by Time magazine as a tentative return to the public eye since his resignation last year.
November 8, 2018:
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Baba Yaga menaced Russian children for generations, but what would happen if you ran into her in modern day St. Petersburg? In She's In Russia's new audio drama episode, The Babushka Society, we answer this very question. The story is a demented magical-realism adventure set in the heart of Saint Petersburg, where two young men stumble across a babushka conspiracy, led by Russian fairytales’ stalwart character Baba Yaga, to take the country of Russia back from the Hipster scourge.
October 12, 2018:
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SoundCloud's ads will be sold in the US by Pandora, the company's announced.
October 3, 2018:
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SoundCloud, a popular podcast and music host, has renewed its exclusive advertising deal with DAX in the UK.
October 2, 2018:
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The Pulp Tales of Gwendolyn Gween, P.I. is an episodic comedic podcast series in the vein of old radio dramas. It follows Gwen Gween, a junior P.I., as she takes on New York City's strangest cases. (Soundcloud)
September 5, 2018:
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The Italian Wine Podcast writes to say hello. They've recently interviewed "French diva" and Bond Girl Carole Bouquet, and added an interactive map of Italy to their website. (Soundcloud)
June 6, 2018:
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Google's DoubleClick's BidManager now lets you buy audio ads on "Google Play Music, Spotify, SoundCloud and TuneIn — with Pandora coming soon."
May 9, 2018:
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And Triple M radio presenter Mark Howard didn't win an Australian Podcast Award, but he's not bitter...
May 3, 2018:
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People: Amanda McCartney (ex Slate/Panoply) joins the New York Times advertising sales team as Director of Audio and Podcasts; SoundCloud has hired Nancy Hood (ex PayPal) as their "Senior Vice President, Listener" (leading the SoundCloud consumer product).
April 19, 2018:
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Hosting on SoundCloud? SoundCloud’s Financial Losses Are Way, Way Worse Than We Thought, says a piece in the (not altogether impartial) Digital Music News website.
April 16, 2018:
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Podtrac contacted users of its free podcast measurement service at the end of March, writing that the service's Terms of Service had been updated to specifically prohibit certain behaviours, including "pre-loading of media files in website players". Readers may remember our investigation into iHeartMedia's figures, which uncovered exactly this in January. The company also announced that SoundCloud website plays would no longer be measured.
March 30, 2018:
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SoundCloud has added a new feature: scheduled publishing. Now, you can upload a podcast and have it publish at a time to suit you. This is a feature present in most podcast hosts; we've covered SoundCloud's continuing financial woes in past editions.
February 27, 2018:
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Twitter has written-off most of its US$70m investment in SoundCloud, according to Variety. Their annual report notes that there's no chance in "a reasonable period" to get that money back. (On Feb 12, an Apple Podcasts marketing executive also warned podcasters off from using SoundCloud.)
February 12, 2018:
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Steve Wilson, who looks after marketing at Apple Podcasts, notes "friends don't let friends host their podcasts on SoundCloud" in a tweet, and recommends SimpleCast instead. He wants podcasters to use a podcast host that's designed to be a podcast host.
January 24, 2018:
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Interesting tool that gets the RSS feed from an iTunes or Soundcloud page.
January 22, 2018:
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Soundcloud has shifted to real-time analytics, says RAIN. Of interest: the platform also has shareable stats cards.
August 18, 2017:
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The Mayor of Louisville, Greg Fischer - "the most innovative mayor in America" - has launched a new podcast - unsurprisingly, he's big news right now given The Charlottesville Thing. It's hosted on SoundCloud so, you know, be quick or you'll miss it.
August 14, 2017:
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An update to Friday: SoundCloud's investors approved the emergency funding plan for the website. Alex Ljung has stepped aside as CEO (he's still Chair). Podcast hosting is not the company's core business, however, and you might still wish to find a new host.
August 11, 2017:
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SoundCloud might not have very long to live: possibly less than six hours. There's a deadline of the end of today, Friday, for investors to agree with the latest rescue plan. If it's rejected, that's it: they lose the deal, and the company can't continue, says this piece.
August 2, 2017:
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SoundCloud is about to "sell stakes" to a bank and the Singaporean state's investment firm, says Bloomberg. Should stabilise the company.
July 14, 2017:
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"Après ça". Il y a douze mois de l'attentat terroriste à Nice. Voici la première d'une série en trois parties, en français, de Jean-Christophe Dimino. (A French podcast, twelve months after the terrorist attack in Nice).
June 26, 2017:
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If SoundCloud is in financial trouble, how do you protect your podcasts on it?
June 21, 2017:
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Trouble at SoundCloud, according to an anonymous source. This website asks how much longer SoundCloud can continue to operate; but then, this isn't a new refrain.