Acast grows in the US

• Acast released its Q3/24 financial report. Gross sales grew by 12% year-on-year to US$45.6mn, together with North America rising at 29%; Europe as a complete noticed only a 3% development, and feedback from Ross Adams appear to counsel Acast UK is discovering it particularly powerful. The corporate stays on observe for “optimistic EBITDA” for the yr, although made a lack of US $0.6mn within the quarter.

  • Acast exhibits are getting extra ad-heavy, although. “In Q3, we launched a further advert marker, permitting podcasters so as to add a second midroll advert slot into their episodes, boosting their monetization potential with elevated advert stock.”
  • Acast blames Apple’s iOS 17 adjustments for a drop in listens of -15%. A lower of -15.2% was also reported by Podtrac earlier within the yr. We covered the iOS 17 changes in full.

• Spotify will announce a brand new tie-up with airline Emirates as we speak, with promotion on the airline’s in-flight front page for Trevor Noah’s podcast, and a mix of podcasts and music playlists on the system. Our Editor noticed the collaboration earlier this week.

  
  

• PodX-owned Platform Media have acquired a majority stake of the world’s biggest rugby show, The Good, The Unhealthy and The Rugby. Platform Media has produced and commercialised the present since its inception.

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