History Hit, the SVoD, content platform, has announced a rebrand and refresh of its award-winning flagship podcast, Dan Snow’s History Hit. With over 3 million listens each month, the refreshed podcast aims to deepen its engagement with its loyal subscribers and attract new audiences with an enhanced listener experience. Starting with immediate effect, Dan Snow’s […]
Veritonic, the audio research and analytics platform, has announced that Hawk (an Azerion company), a European player in digital omnichannel advertising, has selected Veritonic’s Audio Attribution solution to enable users of their platform to track and measure the performance of their audio, podcast and CTV ads. Hawk will use Veritonic’s attribution solution to enable its […]
BBC Sounds’ Audio lab returns for its third incarnation. The project has been designed to help support up-and-coming audio creatives, with the aim of advancing their creative development through building confidence and connection whilst enhancing their writing, recording, performance and promotional skills. Former alumni have seen great success, with an ARIA Gold award for Best […]
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 […]
ReedPop has announced that legendary podcasters, adventurers and New York Times best-selling graphic novel writers Clint and Travis McElroy will be attending MCM Comic Con x EGX at ExCeL London in October. The father and son duo will be hosting a panel titled Storytelling in Non-Traditional Media with The McElroys on October 26th, in which […]
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 […]
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 […]
Legal and true crime network Law&Crime has announced the next installment of its trial-focused podcast slate, Karen, available exclusively on Wondery+. The new series, hosted by Paula Barros of Cold Case Files and The Rise and Fall of Ruby Franke, details the tragic and mysterious death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe, while also tackling […]