NPR: podcasting revenue bigger than radio in 2020
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Podcasts will be bigger than radio next year in terms of NPR’s revenue: according to Deborah Cowan, the organisation’s CFO. She’s expecting to earn $55m from podcasting next year. NPR is profitable, and overall revenue grew 10% year-on-year.
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Dutch public service broadcaster NPO has added their podcasts to Spotify. Spotify had to enable passthrough (ie not cache the audio) in order to enable to comply with Netherlands law.
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The first-ever Infinite Dial South Africa, presented by Edison Research, NAB South Africa and Triton Digital, will be announced on Wednesday. Here’s where to register for the free seminar.
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Is it worth auto-posting your podcast to YouTube? Mark Steadman from Podiant works out whether he should continue supporting this feature from his podcast hosting service, by looking at the data.
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Talking about finding sponsors and making money, Benjamin Shapiro from the Martech Podcast will be guest at the California Podcast Association in Oakland CA, USA tomorrow, Tues 17 Sep. Meanwhile next month you can catch a live taping of the history of BART on 9th October at Oakland Public Library.
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More details on Brexitcast, a podcast which was aired on BBC television last week. Benefiting from a slot directly after Question Time, over one million viewers tuned in; and the programme on TV was subtly edited from the podcast original, as radio consultant Nik Goodman points out.
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Event: Texas PodCon, San Antonio TX, USA, Oct 25-26
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Danish users of iTunes also see a “Shows in English” (thanks, Søren). Interestingly, it’s named in English itself, unlike the Dutch page Podcasts in het Engels.
Podcasts
Companies mentioned above:
Edison Research
NPR
Spotify
Spreaker
Triton Digital
