Podpage adds a listener survey tool

• iHeart released its Q3/24 financials. Podcast income, at $114mn, was up 11% year-on-year; and now accounts for 11.3% of the corporate’s complete. The corporate is paying extra in podcast income sharing, nonetheless.

• Auddia released its Q3/24 financials. The corporate, which makes an ad-skipping radio and podcast app, made a lack of $1.9mn. The monetary notes say that the corporate has a complete debt of $87mn, and wishes to lift extra money to maintain buying and selling after Q1/25. It has raised $10.4mn this 12 months to date.

• The New York Times released its Q3/24 financials, too. Podcasting is just talked about twice within the prepared remarks: “We additionally started experimenting to make audio a extra direct driver of subscriptions with new paid choices obtainable by Spotify and Apple.”

• Within the the UK, there are 967,000 people who listen to podcasts, but don’t listen to any radio. (12.6mn folks hearken to podcasts every week as a complete.)

• McAfee has released a tool that “flags AI-generated audio within seconds”. The launch of McAfee Deepfake Detector is a part of McAfee’s Smart AI Hub.

• Podsift, a software that summarises podcasts, has now incorporated 250 podcasts into its service.

• Podcast Bestie, a newsletter and podcast for independent creators, is celebrating its third anniversary. The publication, written by Courtney Kocak, now has over 5,000 subscribers.

• Manchester’s Crowd Community has expanded, hiring two new video producers.

• Global’s DAX has been appointed Deezer’s exclusive ad partner in the US. Deezer was with Targetspot.

• Streamyard has up to date its terms, in line with an email to users. Totally free customers, it now plans to delete all recordings after 12 months (the earlier phrases simply mentioned they may delete them at any time in the event that they wished). The corporate increased its monthly pricing by 80% in September.

We final up to date The Podnews Ranker in July 2022, however given All The Information, it’s in all probability time to see it again once more. We use it to measure the gender stability of the folks we point out: and our gender stability of tales over the past 90 days, it experiences, was 39% feminine. The web page locations this in context with different elements of the podcast business.

The Tech Stuff – with RSS.com

• In the event you’re a podcast host, we calculate you’ll be serving every lively podcast RSS feed 42,000 occasions a day. So, we assumed that each one podcast hosts are making it simpler to identify when a feed has been up to date – or, are utilizing compression to considerably decrease bandwidth payments. After testing each podcast host’s RSS feeds, we have been shocked at what number of don’t help compression – or the last-modified header.

• Are you seeing Apple Podcasts reject extra of your individual VTT transcripts recently, and insisting on utilizing its personal? We’d be curious to know. Drop us an e mail?

• From the archive: incognito mode for podcasting?

Ideas and tips – with Memberful

• There are some glorious books about podcasting on the market, so we’ve put collectively an inventory. (Obtained any favourites we’ve missed? Hit reply and tell us).

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In 2023, there have been 656 mass shootings in the US. The one in Lewiston, Maine on October 25, 2023 was the deadliest. It could have additionally been essentially the most preventable. One 12 months later, Breakdown explores the missed alternatives to forestall the capturing, the position of weapons and searching in Maine’s politics, and the aftermath for capturing victims, a few of whom have been deaf and arduous of listening to. It’s a limited-series from Maine Public Radio, the Portland Press Herald and FRONTLINE, the award-winning PBS investigative documentary collection.