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Acast up, Audacy down

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  • Acast

    Acast released its financial report for Q3/22. Revenue was SEK 321m ($29.8m), up 21% y-on-y, or 1.9% q-on-q. It claimed 1.3bn listens, with average revenue of SEK 0.24 per listen ($22 per thousand listens). It made a loss in the quarter of SEK65m ($6m), though improved its profit margin.

  • Audacy

    Audacy published its financial report for Q3/22. Digital, including podcasting, made $62m in the quarter: up 2% y-on-y, down 10% q-on-q. Total revenues declined 3.8% y-on-y. The company is threatened with stock market delisting; stock hit a record low of $0.27 yesterday.

  • Audacy
    Sounds Profitable

    Audacy’s problems may help inform where podcasting goes next. Sounds Profitable with Red Circle this week looks at radio’s warnings for the podcast industry . In part two of his essay, Tom Webster warns us to do more research, respect your audience, focus on under 30s, and don’t forget a bad dancer by the side of the road.

  • Canadaland

Podcast News - with CBC Podcasts

    Pressure Cooker
    Play trailerFrom CBC Podcasts #14 is: Pressure Cooker “You’ll be a fly on the wall listening to unbelievable conversations between two dimwits trying to carry out their deadly plan, and the police who seem to be coercing them into doing it.” - Lauren Passell, Lifehacker
    ...These Are Their Stories: The Law & Order Podcast
    …These Are Their Stories: The Law & Order Podcast gets a write-up from The Concord Monitor. They will be doing a live show on stage this Friday, at the Bank of NH Stage in Concord.
    All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
    Wondering what your new business owners are going to do with your company? Twitter employees were told to listen to All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg, according to reports: a ninety-minute show with “six interesting quotes”, according to Business Insider. Both Jason (Calcanis) and (David) Sacks are working at Twitter now.
    Junkyard Mayhem with Squirmy & Grubs
    Play trailerJunkyard Mayhem with Squirmy & Grubs is new today from YEA Networks from popular YouTubers Hannah and Shane Burcaw. The married couple share a raw and unfiltered look into their interabled love life—Shane is disabled and uses a wheelchair; Hannah is non-disabled and performs all of Shane’s daily care.
    Legendary with Kevin Jonas Sr
    Legendary with Kevin Jonas Sr is new from Storic Media. If you think Kevin Jonas Sr has something to do with The Jonas Brothers, you’d be right: he’s the patriarch of the family, and has been in entertainment for decades. In the new show he talks with entertainment icons about legendary moments and the stories behind them.
    It's Not Only Football: Friday Night Lights and Beyond
    Play trailerIt’s Not Only Football: Friday Night Lights and Beyond is new from Podcast One, with original “Friday Night Lights” cast members Zach Gilford, Scott Porter and self-proclaimed “Friday Night Lights” superfan Mae Whitman. It will debut tomorrow.
    Crooked City: Dixon, IL
    Play trailerA new season of Crooked City: The Emerald Triangle launched this week. follows journalist Sam Anderson’s quest to uncover the truth when he learns that one of his former schoolmates has been accused of murder. Sam travels to an area of northern California known as the Emerald Triangle – where most of the USA’s homegrown marijuana comes from – and soon learns that its promises of freedom, money and an alternative way of living aren’t as idyllic as they seem. It’s from Novel, truth.media and Sony Music Entertainment.

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