Audioboom release half-yearly results; the US's biggest podcast advertisers

• Audioboom have published positive half-year results, showing that revenue is 43% up vs this time last year; operating loss has reduced by 18%; total downloads have increased by 14%. The Board also claims that they have enough funding to see the company through to profit.

  • Their COO, Stuart Last, has also posted a detailed piece highlighting where their growth is coming from. Their profit contribution from their own 'Originals’ is 11% of total gross profit (up from 2% a year ago); and non-US revenue has nearly doubled.

• Magellan release the top 15 advertisers on US podcasts in June. ZipRecruiter remains at #1, but there’s another recruitment company in the list. It also includes audio examples for each advertiser.

• Pacific Content’s Steve Pratt notes: Podcasts don’t “go viral.” Is that worth celebrating? - a point about a lack of clickbaity podcasts.

• As we get ready to get to Podcast Movement, Radio INK has an interview with co-founder Dan Franks. They’re expecting 2,200 people - but we haven’t ordered that many laptop stickers! :-O

  
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• A bunch of slides and speeches from the recent NewsRewired conference in the UK, including a session on podcasting from Reuters.

• Things we like not only because they are Podnews Patreon supporters (you can be too): the podcast Futility Closet - forgotten stories from the pages of history.

  • Also, The PurposeGirl Podcast contacted us today, pointing us towards their press kit, which is nicely done.
  • A podcast all about an inability to visualise imagery, Aphantasia is all about this little-known cognitive state.

• A free e-book: Intro To Podcasting Manual. Intended for teaching and community radio workshops, it was designed in collaboration with Pacific Island broadcasters, and also contains some examples of podcasts from the region.

• An article from Current analyses the most popular podcast formats in the iTunes trending chart.

• How do I get a job in podcasting? Matthew McLean posts a guide to finding work in the podcast industry.

• Delaware businesses are slow to adopt podcasting, says an article in the Delaware Business Times.

• Payne Lindsay, creator of Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster, says in an interview that in two years, podcasting will be too saturated to successfully launch a podcast.

• Wondery have launched Business Wars Daily, “a quick 1-2 minute briefing on the latest wars between the world’s biggest companies.” It’s a spinoff from business podcast Business Wars.

• Event: the Paris Podcast Festival, 19-21 October

• Listicle: Podcasts Created by Women You Need to Be Listening To Right Now (Forbes)

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