Acast up, Audacy down

• 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 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’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.

• Exclusive: Growth oriented podcast hosting platform Captivate has just announced a significant increase in its tier download limits, all of which have been at least doubled. Customers get their new, permanent, limits applied today.

• Podtrac released its US podcast rankers for October. iHeartPodcasts remains #1 podcast publisher; Wondery remains #1 podcast sales network; The Daily remains #1 podcast by total audience. The ranker remains incomplete - measuring participating publishers only.

• Veritone published its financial report for Q3/22. It made a loss of $5.7m.

• WTHR reports on audiochuck, the podcast producer owned by Ashley Flowers. The company, based in Indianapolis, now has over thirty employees.

• The Podcast Host is running the Indypod Census, which they call the first international exercise focusing exclusively on independent podcasters and their needs. You’ve until Dec 9 to fill it in; the results will be unveiled in an online summit on Jan 26. You can take part here.

• Team Coco, the Conan O’Brien-led podcast network, is to launch a comedy channel on satellite radio service SiriusXM.

Podcast News - with CBC Podcasts

From 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 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.

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 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 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 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.

A 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.

Podcast ads in the wild

Michele sends us this fancy shot of Pfizer’s Science Will Win being advertised on a New York City bus shelter (this one right outside Pfizer’s World Headquarters). The ad contains a Chartable smart-link QR code - try giving it a go.