The number of people listening to podcasts on the streaming service jumped nearly 40% compared to the previous quarter, a highlight of Spotify’s strong third-quarter earnings report. Roughly 500,000 podcast titles are now hosted on the platform. The United States is Spotify’s largest market for listening to podcasts, and it’s also growing across Europe. Podcasts…
Read MoreWelcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 238, dated December 10, 2019. My Favorite Murder’s eight-figure deal. This probably qualifies as the biggest development from last week. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that My Favorite Murder creators Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark have struck a two-year deal worth “at…
Read MoreAfter leaving her job as the managing editor of a newspaper owned by Digital First Media “due to differences with this company’s management” last year, Kara Meyberg Guzman wasn’t sure what to do next. After a few conversations with a former colleague at the Santa Cruz Sentinel, they decided to launch a local news podcast…
Read MoreWelcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 237, dated December 3, 2019. Peaky platforms. Two associated things, in case they’re the kind of bananas that interests you: (1) Apple has published a “Best Listens of 2019” page for the Apple Podcast platform, which contains both picks by the in-house editors who…
Read MoreMore than 15 years after the term was first coined, podcasting has become one of the hottest topics in media. Our Reuters Institute Digital News Report shows that podcasting is now a worldwide phenomenon: Across 38 countries surveyed, 36 percent said they had listened to a podcast at least once a month, and about 15…
Read MoreWelcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 236, dated November 16, 2019. Scaling the host-read ad. At times, the discourse around the future of podcast advertising can feel like it’s presenting a coin flip between two maximal outcomes. On one side, you have a view towards the preservation of the historical…
Read MoreSpotify is taking the personalization technology that powers its music playlists, like Discover Weekly and Daily Mix, and turning it to podcasts. The company announced this morning the launch of a new podcast playlist called Your Daily Podcasts, that allows users to discover new shows and keep up with their favorites. In other words, it’s…
Read MoreIndianapolis native DuJaun McCoy is back home with a big project. In April, he purchased WISH-TV Channel 8 and sister station WNDY-TV Channel 23 for $42.5 million, becoming the only black owner of a TV station in a Top 50 market. Now, he’s investing $3 million in equipment and a new vehicle fleet to help…
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