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Posted on October 1, 2024 by Brad Hill. The average cost per thousand (CPM) for podcast advertising in September dropped three percent from August. According to Libsyn’s monthly reckoning, the average CPM rate for a 60-second ad spot was $21.37 on September 1, compared to $22.04 a month earlier. That per-thousand rate was the lowest in 52 months.
Steve Goldstein: Should Podcasters Worry About Google’s AI …
2 days ago · Steve Goldstein’s Amplifi Media works with media companies and podcasters in developing audio content strategies. Goldstein writes frequently at t he Amplifi blog. Steve can be reached directly at 203-221-1400 or sjgoldstein-at-amplifimedia-dot-com. If you’re in the audio business and haven’t yet explored Google’s new NotebookLM audio ...
James Cridland's International Radio Trends - Exclusivity, multi ...
1 day ago · James Cridland, radio futurologist, is a conference speaker, writer and consultant. He also publishes Podnews, a daily briefing on podcasting. Buy James a coffee HERE. “If we aren’t on platforms like Spotify and Apple Podcasts, we won’t reach the people” was one (welcome) thought about ...
Brendan Monaghan, ex Spotify, takes over at Libsyn - RAIN News
2 days ago · Megaphone was acquired by Spotify in November, 2020 (RAIN HERE). Monaghan lift Spotify in February, 2022; at that time he was head of Megaphone and the streaming giant’s overall global SaaS business. Under his stewardship, Megaphone delivered a compound annual growth rate in excess of 130%. More recently, Monaghan was CEO of mobile auto ...
Audioboom's multi-record Q3 - RAIN News
2 days ago · The four record results are: Q3 revenue up 34% (U.S. $18.8M) Q3 adjusted EBITDA (profit U.S. $1.0M) Quarterly performance from the company’s global advertising marketplace, Showcase ($7M, up an eye-popping 99% year-over-year) Q3 eCPM up 79%. Audioboom takes the opportunity to brag about its chart positioning: “ (The company) maintained ...
Podcasting - RAIN News
Posted on October 1, 2024 by Brad Hill. The average cost per thousand (CPM) for podcast advertising in September dropped three percent from August. According to Libsyn’s monthly reckoning, the average CPM rate for a 60-second ad spot was $21.37 on September 1, compared to $22.04 a month earlier. That per-thousand rate was the lowest in 52 ...
RAIN’s top five posts (plus one) of 2021 - RAIN News
Dec 29, 2021 · RAIN's most-read articles of 2021. Some news items have import that goes beyond the moment -- so it is that two of our top five were posted in 2020. On another note, hurrah to RAIN's stellar lineup of guest columnists. Two …
RAIN Notes: September 27 - RAIN News
RAIN Notes: September 27. Posted on September 27, 2024 by Brad Hill. Jottings of note: Leaping. Digital audio made a significant leap in the share of total national audio ad spending during the first half of 2024, reaching 65% share. We learn this from Inside Radio, which scoops information from advertising planning and data company Guideline.
RAIN Notes: September 23 - RAIN News
RAIN Notes: September 23. Dead Or Alive? Journalist, speaker, author, and public radio personality Celeste Headley issues the final episode of her podcast Hear Me Out, featuring Nick Hilton, founder of podcast production house Podot. The two podcast thought leaders discuss whether, how, and why podcasting might be nearing its end as a media ...
Podcast daily news news - RAIN News
Jan 21, 2021 · The podcasting daily news space is crowded and successful as a category. Up First (NPR) and The Daily (The New York Times) sparked it off years ago, via standard podcast distribution and the rise of smart speakers (the latter especially for Up First, which was the default morning news brief when Alexa launched in the Amazon Echo).