Global, the Media & Entertainment group, has revealed the details of 12 new radio stations, the biggest single launch in UK radio history – set to go live across the UK on September 12th The new stations will all be available on Global Player, the official app for all of Global’s radio brands and content, […]
NFL stars and brothers, Travis and Jason Kelce. have signed a podcast deal with Amazon, reportedly worth $100 million (€90m). The three-year deal gives Wondery, an Amazon partner company, exclusive multimedia rights to the brothers’ popular New Heights podcast. The siblings launched the podcast in 2022, which sees the pair interviewing celebrity guests and discussing […]
BBC Sounds has launched Tortoise Investigates, a new feed which will become the home of three new investigative podcast series from Tortoise Media. The boxsets will be released consecutively on BBC Sounds in the coming weeks. Each boxset series offers a complex story which aim to keep listeners guessing, including a Satanic hoax, a malicious […]
Deezer, the music streaming platform, and DAZN, the sports streaming service, have announced a multi-year joint distribution partnership. Later this year, music and sports fans in France will be able to seamlessly access premium streaming on Deezer and DAZN through multiple direct-to-consumer offers. The collaboration follows DAZN’s recent win to become the home of Ligue […]
North American pay-radio operator, SiriusXM, is suffering a loss of subscribers which has driven its share price into negative territory. The subscriber loss for its quarter ending June 30th totalled around 173,000 and made up of 100,000 so-called ‘self-pay’ (conventional) subscribers, and 73,000 promotional subscriptions. These were considered major losses but when compared with the […]
Goalhanger, the independent UK podcast company, has announced a record level of downloads and views over a busy May to July period, led by a worldwide boost in interest across shows such as The Rest Is Politics and The Rest Is Football. From May 22nd to July 5th, The Rest Is Politics and its companion […]
Ofcom recently published its Media Nations report, which looks at the UK’s media landscape and how people across the country use and consume media across a range of platforms. The main findings show that younger audiences are watching less broadcast TV, while, overall, radio listening is on the rise. The report also highlights a number […]
Americans spend almost 20 per cent of every day with audio, reports Nielsen. In Q2 2024 that translated to 4 hours and 5 minutes of daily listening across both ad-supported and ad-free platforms like radio, podcasts, streaming music services and satellite radio, accoridng to The Record – a quarterly look at how US audiences divide […]
For the first time, less than half of 16-24-year-olds (Gen Z) are now watching broadcast TV in an average week, according to Ofcom’s annual study into the nation’s media habits. Just 48 per cent of young audiences tuned in during an average week last year, down from 76 per cent in 2018. Children aged 4-15 […]
Podcast, radio and audiobook industry trade body AudioUK has launched an anonymised survey to gather some key data as it steps up its work to secure Government measures to grow the UK podcast and audiobook sector. Key among AudioUK’s policies, outlined in its manifesto produced earlier in the year, is a tax relief for podcasting […]