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LiSTNR Remains Australia’s Number One Podcast Network

LiSTNR Remains Australia’s Number One Podcast Network

LiSTNR has retained its position as Australia’s number one podcast network with more than 6.2 million monthly listeners in the October Triton Podcast Ranker. LiSTNR has nine of the top 20 podcast titles and three of Australia’s top podcasts in their genres: No. 1 comedy podcast – Hamish & […] Click here to view original … Read more

Podcast advertising continues to increase

Podcast advertising continues to increase

Data: Podcast advertising continues to increase quarter-on-quarter in the US – up 2.6% – according to Magellan AI, which has released the company’s Q3/22 Podcast Advertising Benchmark Report . The top ten podcast advertisers spent $75m: up 6% since last quarter. True crime shows carried the most ads; overall […] Click here to view original … Read more

Amazon parcels up ad-free podcasts for Prime users

Amazon parcels up ad-free podcasts for Prime users

In a renewed fight against Spotify, Amazon has made big changes to Amazon Music Prime, including ad-free podcasts . Included with your Prime account, the service now offers 100 million songs (on shuffle) instead of the 2 million it had before; and “the largest catalogue of ad-free top podcasts”, […] Click here to view original … Read more

Acast up, Audacy down

Acast up, Audacy down

• Acast released its financial report for Q3/22, with revenue at 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).• Acast made a loss in the quarter of SEK65m ($6m), though improved its profit margin from the previous quarter.• … Read more

Annual re-certification now required by IAB

Annual re-certification now required by IAB

• The IAB Tech Lab is now requiring annual re-certification from podcast companies.• In a note that has appeared sometime over the past month on the IAB’s website, the IAB says it “is updating its compliance program to require annual recertification”.• Pricing is $35,000 for IAB members; membership is a minimum of $10,000 on top. … Read more

Why Does A Business Need eLearning Platform Development?

Why Does A Business Need eLearning Platform Development?

Summary: eLearning technology has been a colossal success worldwide. It is not just educational institutions, but businesses and corporate houses that have been utilizing eLearning platforms. Such platforms help in improving the employee skillset and saving a lot of resources for the organization. eLearning Benefits The Corporate World Too! […] Click here to view original … Read more

Libsyn Supports Sounder Customers By Offering Complementary Hosting

Libsyn Supports Sounder Customers By Offering Complementary Hosting

•Libsyn is offering all current customers with a podcast hosted on Sounder.fm to move to Libsyn at no cost for the first six months.• Sounder’s hosting platform will shut down on January 31, 2023, and all advertising solutions will stop operating on December 31, 2022.• “We are saddened to hear that Sounder has made the … Read more

Magellan AI Verified As Third-Party Attribution Partner By Spreaker From iHeart

Magellan AI Verified As Third-Party Attribution Partner By Spreaker From iHeart

•Magellan AI, the podcast advertising analytics and attribution platform, has been validated as a third party partner by Spreaker from iHeart, the leading podcast platform for monetization.• This integration will allow all advertising campaigns run on the Spreaker network to use Attribution by Magellan AI, which delivers accurate and in-depth campaign results and attribution analytics.• … Read more

Acast And Amazon Music Enter Agreement For Ad-Free Podcast Listening

Acast And Amazon Music Enter Agreement For Ad-Free Podcast Listening

•Amazon Music and Acast have entered into an agreement to deliver ad-free podcasts for Prime members and Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers.• Ad-free listening to Acast podcasts on Amazon Music will result in revenue for Acast podcasters.• The agreement enables Prime members and Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers to stream Acast podcasts without ads globally through the … Read more

Australian Podcast Advertising Leaps Ahead

Australian Podcast Advertising Leaps Ahead

•ARN’s iHeart has shared new data from Magellan AI that reveals the top 15 brands advertising for Q3, 2022 across the podcast landscape nationally.• The report is based on analyzing thousands of episodes from 400+ of Australia’s most popular podcasts for Q3 2022 to determine which brands are advertising in the rapidly growing medium.• Overall, … Read more