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BBC Sounds sees record plays in 2025

BBC Sounds has reported another record-breaking year with over 2.5 billion plays of radio, music and podcasts between January and November 2025 – an increase of 8 per cent compared with the same period last year. There was a total of 2.8 billion audio plays from across the BBC, including BBC Sport, BBC News, BBC […]

December 23, 2025

Stingray music collaborates with Mercedes-Benz

Stingray, the specialist in music and video content distribution, business services and advertising solutions, has announced a partnership with automotive brand Mercedes-Benz to bring its Stingray Music and Stingray Karaoke applications to all vehicles equipped with the latest generation of infotainment system MBUX. The applications will be natively pre-installed in the vehicle’s ‘Music & Audio’ section and are expected to launch […]

December 23, 2025

Creative Industries Council relaunches; podcasting seat

The Creative Industries Council (CIC) has relaunched with a new panel of more than 40 expert members, bringing together cultural institutions, trade bodies, creative businesses, regional leaders and sector representatives from across the UK’s creative industries. The CIC is a forum for collaboration between the government and industry leaders on key industry issues. The membership […]

December 16, 2025

Adform integrates with Spotify Ad Exchange

Adform, the media buying platform, has announced the next step in its partnership with Spotify. The direct integration of Adform into the Spotify Ad Exchange makes it easier and more effective for advertisers to reach and engage Spotify fans at scale. With the market projected to reach $43 billion this year, this partnership is poised […]

November 26, 2025

Research: Record audio subscriptions in Sweden

In Q3 2025, Swedish households together held approximately 5.3 million music, audiobook and podcast subscriptions — the highest level recorded in Mediavision’s analyses. This corresponds to an increase of about 250,000 subscriptions in a year, mainly driven by music and podcast services. “Willingness to pay for audio continues to rise in Sweden. We see a […]

November 14, 2025

Netflix seeks SiriusXM podcast licence

Netflix has approached North American pay-radio broadcaster SiriusXM to license its video podcasts as part of its major push into the space, according to multiple reports. The deal – unconfirmed – could likely involve exclusivity of the video podcasts on the platform, meaning they would not appear on the likes of YouTube, a source told […]

November 7, 2025By Chris Forrester

SiriusXM: 33m subs, 170m listeners

North American pay-radio operator SiriusXM published its financial numbers for the quarter-year to September 30th and reported it now has 33 million subscribers, and, thanks to services such as its streaming platform Pandora, some 170 million listeners in the US and Canada. Total revenue for the quarter was down 1 per cent at $2.16 billion […]

October 31, 2025By Chris Forrester

BBC World Service launching Asia Specific podcast

BBC World Service English is launching a new visualised podcast, which will deliver analysis and expertise on stories from across Asia-Pacific. Launching on November 19th, Asia Specific will bring Asian perspectives on the biggest global news stories, original journalism, and big picture insights on the political, social and economic trends shaping the region. Airing twice […]

October 27, 2025

News Broadcasting reports 6.3m weekly radio listeners

News Broadcasting has achieved another set of strong RAJAR results for the Q3 survey period ending September 15th 2025. The group, including national brands talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio and Talk, as well as U105 in Northern Ireland, delivered 6.3 million weekly listeners, with cumulative listening hours of 44.4 million. News Broadcasting is leading […]

October 23, 2025

International Podcast Alliance goes live

The PIA (Syndicat des Producteurs Professionnels et Indépendants de l’Audio, France) and AudioUK (the industry body for the podcast and audio industry) have announced the launch of the International Podcast Alliance (IPA), a collaborative transnational platform uniting professional organisations representing podcast and audio producers, businesses and publishers globally. The IPA aims to strengthen dialogue, share […]

October 23, 2025