Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 197, published February 26, 2019.
Cadence13 is moving its podcasts onto the Megaphone platform. I’ve learned that Cadence13 (née DGital Media) is moving its hosting commitments to Panoply’s Megaphone. Cadence13 — whose publishing clients include Crooked Media, Tenderfoot TV, Happier with Gretchen Rubin, and Tony Kornheiser — previously hosted its shows on Art19.
Cadence13 is the latest customer that Panoply’s brought in since divesting from its content business last fall. In November, the company signed Vox Media to a deal that brought most of its podcasts away from Art19 and onto Megaphone, though Today, Explained — which originated through a deal with Stitcher — remains on Art19. (Generally speaking, Stitcher appears to favor Art19, but it’s experimented with Megaphone, notably using shows from the Oprah Winfrey Network, in the past. It remains to be seen how the hosting situation will shake out…
