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• Spotify has released its Q1/24 financials. The company made over €1bn gross profit (US$1.07bn) for the first time; and returned €197mn of net income.
  • Spotify’s profit margin for Q1 increased Y/Y from 25.2% to 27.6%. It laid off over 2,300 people last year, and raised prices in many territories.
  • Ad revenue grew 18% Y/Y. “Podcast advertising revenue grew faster than music, driven by significant growth in impressions sold ... partially offset by softer pricing. The Spotify Audience Network saw high single digit Q/Q growth in participating publishers and shows.” The company doesn’t split out podcast revenue.
  • Spotify now has 615mn monthly users (up 19%): below expectations. It grew paid subscribers by just 14%, to 239mn.
• 86% of branded podcasts increase a brand’s affinity with their listeners, says new data from Signal Hill Insights. Branded podcasts also help with brand recall. The 2024 Branded Podcasts Benchmark Report is released today.
• iHeartMedia has launched the Women’s Sports Audio Network, which it calls the first ever audio platform dedicated to women’s sports.

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• Podcast analytics and insights platform CoHost has announced the publication of its second annual State of Podcast Agencies report. The biggest issue for podcast agencies? Trackable ROI, which impacts 33% of agencies.
• In the UK, AudioLab has been launched by Adwanted UK. It’s claimed to be the first cross-platform digital audio measurement solution in the country.
• We covered Spotify’s quiet withdrawl from the IAB on Monday. In commentary about Spotify’s IAB , RAIN’s Brad Hill calls it “a signal of extraordinary self-sufficiency”. He also notes that the IAB’s website still lists Spotify as a member of the IAB Podcasting Technical Working Group; we spotted that too, but we’re told this is an error (not least, the named contact, Kevin Sachs, left the company at the end of March).
• There’s a new podcast studio in Brookfield, Illinois.
• Crime Junkie is to be a 24-hour radio station. Crime Junkie Radio is a 24/7 true crime radio station on SiriusXM. It launches on Friday morning.
• The Audio Drama Directory is “an online resource with the goal of offering the most comprehensive listings of websites for audio drama enthusiasts.” New to us, it’s been running since last year.
• Roland is to release a podcasting kit. “Go:Podcast” gives you a USB microphone and an app that supports video and live streaming.
• The Peabody Awards has announced some nominees, including for its podcast categories.
• Wondery has launched Wondery+, its curated premium podcast service, for UK podcast listeners. We’re promised lots of British content, and a localised and curated ad-free experience for UK audiences.

Tips and tricks

• Three ways to test your audio quality, from Platform Podcasting, includes trying to listen in a busy café - and in your car - and what to do if you can’t.
• How do YouTube stats work for podcasters? They’re not in your podcast host’s dashboard (probably); we explain why.

Podcast News

• LEAH’S GALS, described as a a low-rent, Southern fried twist on a literary classic is available in full today. It's the first production from Mind’s Eye Podcasts.
• Transit Unplugged reaches episode 300 today. The show tackles issues like zero emissions, the bus manufacturing crisis in the US, and changing ridership patterns: today's episode is a special transit CEO Roundtable recorded live at the ThinkTransit conference. It features an unscripted look into the lives and careers of four leading transit CEOs. (We hope they take transit to work).

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• EXCLUSIVE: The Webby Awards will announce the winners of the 28th annual awards later today. Podnews can reveal that Julia Louis-Dreyfus will receive the Webby Podcast of the Year Award for Lemonada Media’s Wiser Than Me and her embrace of the internet as a platform for connecting generations through meaningful, funny and important conversations with unforgettable women. The Webby Podcast Company of the Year goes to iHeartMedia. We’ve details of 14 more awards, ahead of the release of the full list.
• Google appears to have set a date for Google Podcasts to be switched off in countries outside the US. A support document has been updated to say “Users outside of the United States will be able to use Google Podcasts until mid-to-late June 2024”, 9to5Google has spotted.
  • How’s YouTube being reviewed? YouTube Sucks For Podcasts, is the none-too-subtle headline from Android Police.
• Inside Podcasting, a podcast newsletter, has not published an issue since Mar 21. We understand that a majority of the editorial staff at the company have been laid off.

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• Spotify is removing the separate login for “Spotify for Podcasters”, its podcast host. From May 14, you’ll be required to use a Spotify login, rather than your old Anchor/S4P one. The benefits are that you’ll be able to manage more than one podcast with the same login, and be able to invite teams.
• Veritonic has inked a deal with AppsFlyer, to allow the company access to real-time data on in-app conversion actions across mobile devices.

Moves and Hires

• Novel has a new CEO: Craig Strachan. He joins from Amazon Music, where he was Global Head of Podcast Industry. 1
• Luis Antonio Perez has (re)joined Colorado Public Radio as News Podcast Editor/Producer.

Tips and tricks

• What’s the difference between IAB Certified and IAB Compliant? We’ve updated a page with the difference between the two words - and given an example from history about why mere “compliance” might not be all that’s needed.
• Podcasting is hard to sustain. Make a plan for taking a break. says Ashley Hamer in The Weekly Tweak

Podcast News

• Bear Brook returned today from NHPR with a special episode. Almost five years after the true crime podcast first came out, there's been a sudden development in the 1988 case of the murder of Sharon Johnson. We learn what might happen next.
• Exhibit A is new this week from Abby Clancy, who's married to Peter Crouch, who both own Marvellous Media, a new podcast network, which is to launch up to ten new shows this year, which is working with Acast, who will be monetising both the audio and the video output across all platforms, where they can reach Abbey and Pete's 1.5mn followers.
• The Letter has returned for a new season from KSL Podcasts and the Webby Award-winning Lemonada Media. "Ripple Effect" explores the harrowing aftermath of the 1982 murder of two young fathers, where a letter from the confessed killer leads to an emotional journey of forgiveness. Through their stories, the podcast reveals how even the most intimate decisions can cause a ripple effect across lives and generations.

Podcast Entrepreneur On The Front Cover Of A Magazine

There’s everyone’s favourite Minnesota podcast entrepreneur, Sheletta Brundidge, on the front cover of Twin Cities Business Magazine! Very cool!

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• EXCLUSIVE: Spotify is no longer a member of the IAB, having quietly ceased its membership in the last three months. After a press enquiry from Podnews, Spotify’s Megaphone, Chartable and the Spotify for Podcasters host formerly known as Anchor were removed from the published list of compliant companies for podcast measurement. They last underwent certification in 2020.
  • “Spotify values our longstanding partnership with the IAB,” a Spotify spokesperson told Podnews. “For 2024, we’re taking a pause to make sure that we can participate in an active way and will reevaluate a formal membership later this year. In the meantime, Spotify remains committed to the IAB mission. We champion its efforts and remain deeply connected to the work supporting digital advertising without direct membership this year. While Megaphone, Chartable and S4P are not officially IAB certified at this time, all three platforms are compliant to the IAB v2.1 standard.”
  • Spotify is the largest global digital audio advertising company, with ad-supported revenue in Q4/23 of €501mn ($533mn), compared with SiriusXM $479mn; iHeart digital audio revenue $317mn; Cumulus digital revenue $221mn; Audacy digital revenue $69.1mn; Acast $45mn. All these other companies are IAB members.
  • We’d like to carry views from the rest of the industry about this news later this week. Please hit reply (or mail editor@podnews.net) if you’ve something to say.
• Podcast hosting company Podbean has been also removed from the list of IAB compliant companies. They were last certified in 2020. The Measurement-Validation-Compliance-v2.1-Oct-2022.pdf?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-04-22">IAB’s Compliance Certification Guide states (p12) that a company must submit for certification at least once in the past twelve months.
• Last week, Libsyn was recertified under the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines v2.1. Captivate and Buzzsprout were last certified under v2.0 in 2020, but both companies are in the process of recertification.
  • The IAB doesn’t publish the costs for undergoing podcast measurement certification; they are - Member: $12,500 (new) / $​6,250​ (renew); Non-Member: $17,500 (new) / $8,750 (renew).

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• Realm has selected Flightpath as an ad revenue optimisation tool.
• City, University of London is looking for a Podcaster in Residence. The position is open to early career practitioners, with under five years of professional experience. The university is also offering scholarships and bursaries to UK-based students, in a programme funded by Spotify and Goalhanger.
• Spotify write about how the company approaches safety.
• From the archive - content.com/jimmy-and-the-magic-pizza-shop-3c547eeb17db/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-04-22">Dan Misener writes about Jimmy and the magic pizza shop, a parable on why he feels it’s important to have measurement guidelines that we all agree on.

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Moves and Hires

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The Tech Stuff

• You can now follow your favourite podcast on the fediverse - Mastodon, Pleroma and similar. PodcastAP will help you find the automated accounts - you can even upload OPML to it. Podnews is on the fediverse properly as @podnews@social.podnews.net - we’d love to see you there.
• We’re now rate-limiting our podcast pages after significant, sustained crawling from IP addresses belonging to Microsoft. You (and they) can download a complete podcast database from the Podcast Index; extra costs for us have been well over $750. Anyone got Bill’s address?
• Spotify is supporting chapters - well, Podlove’s chapters. This show has chapter points in it; hosted by RSS Blue, the RSS feed is here.
• We’ve added an indication in our podcast pages for where podcasts use Podcasting 2.0 features, and are now showing “other shows you may enjoy” from both incoming and outgoing podroll mentions. The Podnews Weekly Review is a good example. Our podcast pages now only play the trailer (if there is one), rather than a list of episodes - we’d prefer you used a proper podcast app for that!
• Truefans got a good magazine article writeup in the City, University of London alumni magazine. (CEO Sam Sethi went there).
• Open podcast analytics service OP3 has added a new API and renamed one. They’re also looking for translations.

Tips and tricks

• Wondering how other podcasts like yours are doing in downloads? OP3 analytics are open to everyone, and our sister publication Podcast Business Journal publishes a selection of podcasts measured by the service, to help you compare.
• While the list of shows measured by OP3 is around 2,000 - and so is unlikely to be entirely representative of everyone - this shows the share of downloads over the past 30 days by podcast app. Spotify has a share of 49%.

Podcast News

• In Podcasting 2.0 with Adam Curry and Dave Jones, the CEO of Truefans, Sam Sethi, is guest this week.
• After controversial comedian Jimmy Carr made a controversial joke that caused controversy in the press, he's the latest guest on Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps today. Carr has a new Netflix special out, which was surprisingly good timing, given his controversial joke that we mentioned earlier. He talks cancel culture, "outrage archaeology", and the joke that will end his career.
• The Price of Paradise is new today from Wondery - the true story of two women who found themselves on the opposite sides of the same battle. One woman is swapping rural England for a sun-drenched utopia. The other is fighting for indigenous rights. But it’s a story that will end in kidnap, corruption and murder.
• Dog parks are important public spaces, argues the new podcast Dog Parkology - a dog park is a space that allows our dogs to play with each other, but also a space that allows us to connect with strangers and build community in a way that we rarely have the opportunity for anymore. And someone's bound to bring some snacks.
• On the Media Voices Podcast this week, our Editor, James Cridland, talks about running a newsletter, and the podcast industry: "There’s a tale of two industries at the moment. There’s the US, which probably overheated. And then there’s the rest of the world where slow and steady wins the race."

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• Sports fans in the US spend more than two hours longer with audio content every day, according to a preview of the Sports Audio Report from Edison Research, SiriusXM Media and GroupM.
• Ariel Shapiro’s final Hot Pod was published. In an editorial, she paints a picture of a new industry landscape - where investments have dried up and every project needs to be profitable to survive; and suggests she “got to the party too late”.
• Triton Digital’s March podcast ranker is out for the US.

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• Podcast hosting company Captivate has rolled-out support for chapters, including image and URL support, in its embedded player.
• An impending UK election probably means podcast advertising revenue will be adversely affected, according to Adelicious CEO, Andrew Goldsmith. The UK government was one of the first advertisers on podcasts in the country, but rules around election spending are complex.
• Flightpath, software that helps predict advertising availability for podcast networks, spotted last year’s change in Apple Podcasts early and helped publishers correct the quotes they were making, according to CEO Sean Howard. He’s interviewed today in our sister publication, the Podcast Business Journal.
• The subject of Bone Valley, Leo Schofield, has been valley-podcast-subject-granted-182922905.html?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2024-04-19">granted parole, and will leave prison on April 30.
• AdResults Media published a Podcast Advertising Whitepaper showing the effectiveness of the medium for advertising.
• Gordon Firemark is planning a free webinar next week: “Podcast Growth & Profit: Mastering the Fundamentals; Avoiding Common Mistakes.”

Tips and tricks

• Niall Mackay posts his top five tools for editing workflow.
• Hate your own voice? We Edit Podcasts has tips for finding vocal confidence as a podcaster.

Podcast News

• The Adam Carolla Show is fifteen years old. As a celebration, fifteen of Carolla’s most memorable episodes featuring stars such as Matt Damon, Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage, Alec Baldwin, Michael Mann, Francis Ford Coppola, Albert Brooks, Jimmy Kimmel, Mike Tyson and Christian Bale will be featured in a special The Adam Carolla Show podcast collection available in Tesla cars.
• Spotify launched 1619: The Podcast Edition - the result of a Spotify-funded NextGen podcast course with Howard University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nikole Hannah-Jones, Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. The student-produced podcast makes compelling connections to the ways that slavery still impacts their lives and ours. A listening party was held earlier this week.
• The Podnews Weekly Review talks with Jeremy King from the M&M Awards, Sean Howard from Flightpath, and Sam Sethi discusses how ActivityPub might work in joining up the disparate world of podcast apps, in a section he may be surprised to learn hasn't been edited out.

Podcast promotion in the wild

(The “let’s clear some of the backlog” edition)

• Dining with Dills: “I saw the attached yard sign in Pasadena, California the other day,” says reader Michael.

• Monumental is a podcast about big monuments across America, from PRX. Where better to advertise it than on billboards close to the monuments in each episode? (Note that the podcast is called “Monumental”, but on the billboards is called “Monumental Podcast”, so you know what it is, just as we recommend.)

• Behold! A bus! In Dublin, Ireland! It’s for Unapologetic and it’s put there by Acast. (The ad, not the bus. The bus was probably there already.)

• Kiwi kids show Suzy and friends get the double-billboard treatment in Auckland, New Zealand.

• The obligatory picture of a billboard in Times Square comes from Podnews reader Stephanie, for Impact Theory. “Not the Amazon billboard,” she adds. Indeed.

Finally for now, The Cold Slice, another podcast that correctly adds the word “podcast” when it isn’t in a podcast app, bought a billboard to promote their show. Their Reddit post says that they spent $300 and got 80 listeners (“some of whom stuck it out and still listen”). Dylan was told by someone in the subreddit to send us a picture.

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• A brand new microphone, the Lewitt Audio Ray, has been launched... with a laser. The microphone has what it calls “autofocus” for sound, tuning the voice depending on how close, or far away, the person is from the microphone. It’s a new and novel idea; our review says it could be an excellent guest microphone, or for use on camera.
• Rephonic has started rolling out details of Spotify follower numbers for every podcast in its directory. The data appeared in some users’ apps a few weeks ago.
• Seems that the HotPod “hiatus” will be longer than first thought: all subscribers to the newsletter have had their paid subscriptions refunded. (If that refund is burning a hole in your pocket and you’d like to support us...)

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• How many podcasts make it to 5 or more episodes? Only half of them, says data from the Podcast Index.
• Libsyn Ads has announced a partnership to represent the Toronto Star’s podcasts for ad sales.
• Hit true crime show One Minute Remaining is to be made available to Spanish speakers. The Acast show is using Wondercraft to introduce the show to Spanish speakers globally. Uno Minuto Restante is now available in all major podcast apps.
• AdsWizz has successfully recertified for v2.1 of the IAB Podcast Measurement program. Podtrac and Simplecast also recertified in March. On the IAB TechLab website, there are still a number of companies only certified to v2.0, who haven’t recertified in more than three years: Anchor (now Spotify), Buzzsprout, Captivate, Chartable, Libsyn, Megaphone and Podbean.

Focus

In 100 Latina Birthdays, from Peabody-nominated LWC Studios, reporters investigate the health and lifetime outcomes of Latinas in the United States from birth to age 100. Season 1 chronicles Latinas’ health during pregnancy, childhood, adolescence, and up until age 20. Listen here, on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Moves and Hires

• Lotten Skeppstedt has been hired as Director of Platform Services at Swedish podcast platform Podspace.

Tips and tricks

• What do you do with your audio files after you’ve produced an episode? Here’s how to store your podcast files - at least, the decisions you should make, and the way we do things. We’d love your feedback.
• Descript shares The best prompt for AI brainstorming, according to a study

Podcast News

• Ahead of this year's BAFTA Television Awards in the UK, the Countdown To The BAFTAs podcast returns again today - hosted by Alex Zane and made by Rethink Audio, the show will feature "informed and entertaining behind-the-scenes chat about the making of the most popular and critically acclaimed shows from the past 12 months".
• The Podcast Gurus podcast this week has our Editor, James Cridland, as a guest. The show is also available in video form. Developing sustainable content creation and distribution practices, James says, is essential to prevent burnout and maintain quality.

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