Another podcast host gets IAB Certification

• Empire Streaming is the latest podcast host to achieve IAB Certification. The company is based in Pittsburgh PA, USA; there are now twelve companies with IAB Certification.

  
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• Podkite have launched Episode Kitelinks, a way to share links to individual episodes without the hassle of copy/pasting all the different player URLs. Their demo video uses Podnews as an example.

• SiriusXM, which also owns Pandora and AdsWizz, has filed its annual report for 2019. Pandora has 6.2m paid subscribers and 63.5m monthly active users. Pandora brought in $1.6bn revenue ($1.1bn from advertising) although the company admit Pandora’s number of monthly active users “has declined consistently for several years”.

  
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• Spotify is #1 again - but this time for music streaming. NotiPod links to research from Mexico, indicating that Spotify has 84.8% of the music streaming market in the country. Apple Music is second, with 6%.

• Business Insider has published a list of 29 power players of podcasting. All are US-based.

• iHeartMedia showed an interesting graph showing audio consumption by age group. The average American listens to 2.5 hours a day, with 18-34 year-olds listening to the most audio.

• Podcast Books Club contains “the latest and greatest books from the world of podcasting”, and has been curated by Harry Duran.

• Podcast host Captivate has announced four new appointments to its advisory board - Chris Ducker, Kathy Doyle, Jordan Harbinger and Daniel J Lewis. They join Laura Roeder, Evo Terra and our Editor, James Cridland. James has also joined Poductivity’s advisory board, and the Podnews disclosures page has been updated.

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Reader’s letters

Jordan Harbinger notes our comments yesterday about Bixby’s market share, and questions: Bixby has 4% market share? That’s huge then if 4% of podcast listeners use Bixby. - oh, ah, no, but thanks for the opportunity to clarify. We meant Bixby has a 4% market share of voice assistants (and therefore, for podcasting, a 4% market share of the 0.29% of podcast plays that come from a voice assistant). Jordan, who’s better at maths than we are, replied: That’s 0.0116% of all plays, then. We’ll take his word for it.

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Podcast News

All’s Fair with Laura Wasser is new from iHeartRadio - launching Feb 11. Wasser, who has been podcasting for two years, is a celebrity family law attorney and founder of an online divorce platform, and she’ll be joined in the first episode by Kim Kardashian West. The podcast is a expanded rebrand of Divorce Sucks!, widening its focus to cover all kinds of human nature.

The Missing Cryptoqueen, a BBC podcast that was downloaded 3.5m times, is to become a TV show, after the screen rights were sold to New Regency Television International.

Bringing up young sports stars can be difficult - a bit like parenting on steroids, except that’s probably a really bad way to put it. Raising Fame: Sports Edition, hosted by Dell and Sonya Curry, shares parenting wisdom and guidance from sporting families. The first season launches tomorrow, from Cadence13, a division of RADIO·COM.

Let’s Be Real with Sammy Jaye is “a new podcast that delivers honest and unfiltered conversations with a wide variety of influential people,” such as Meghan Trainor, Kesha, FINNEAS and Julia Michaels. Sammy Jaye, the 17 year-old host, works with Radio Disney. (iHeartRadio)

Dave Jackson’s School of Podcasting interviews Eric Nuzum in its latest episode.