Category: podcasting
Podimo Consolidates European Podcast Dominance with Arc.Studio Acquisition and Major Executive Hires
Podimo acquires Germany’s Arc.Studio and recruits former Netflix, Google, BBC and Disney executives to scale its European podcast empire and creator-first platform.
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Podcasts Overtake Radio: What This Seismic Shift Means for Publishers
Podcasts now lead US spoken-word audio. Here’s what the Edison Research data means for publishers: rights, author talent, platform strategy, and AI production tools.
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Spotify pays podcasters $100 million in Q1. Publishers and other creatives, wake up and smell the coffee!
This news carries significant implications for the audiobook publishing landscape, particularly given Spotify’s own disruptive entry into this market.
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Podcasting Revenue Surpasses $2 Billion: Implications for Book Publishing
But the times they are a-changed, as Bob Dylan almost said, and the publishing industry is slowly waking up to the role podcasting play, and to the role AI can play.
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New York Times to sell audio subscriptions on Apple and Spotify
Paid podcasting is nowadays so much a part of the industry, that it’s hard to imagine that, as recently as 2019, many were sniggering as Morten Strunge launched Podimo with the crazy idea that consumers might hand over actual money to listen to a mere podcast.
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Podimo Acquires Danish Advertising Agency Podads
This hybrid approach, combining subscription and ad-supported models, is expected to provide...
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OR/M launches lively industry podcast programme
A bit like an industry version of BookTok without the video.
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USA – The top podcast genre chart for Q2 2022
For book publishers insights like these can be invaluable in helping target audiences as...
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26% of Gen Z say they listen to podcasts every week. Top 5 podcast topics includes books
Many publishers still don’t get podcasts. Time to wake up and smell the coffee. Gen Z top 5...
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Facebook abandons podcasts, but no the podcasting sky is not falling
One might think, in a world of real doom and gloom, death and destruction, that there was no need...
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YouTube plans “tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts”
For book publishers the message should be clear – audiobooks are a major asset but podcasts...
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Substack poaches Patreon podcasts as it joins the race for a place in the paid podcasting arena
The one thing we can say with certainty is that paid-podcasting is here to stay, and is going to...
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