How large is the worldwide podcast market? Justin Jackson’s research website has elevated its estimates. It means that 2024 noticed round $3-3.4bn in world ad-sales; that the internet hosting enterprise is price round $100-150mn, and that podcast occasions and conferences are price $15-20mn. The estimates don’t embrace YouTube. Sources are given: and it’s open for others to contribute. The IAB estimated US podcast advert income at $1.95bn for 2023.
Google has launched a brand new instrument made to “rework your content material into AI-generated audio discussions”. And, in a lot the identical means as the corporate has five different messaging apps, this one known as Google Illuminate AI, which appears to be a lot the identical as one other product from the corporate, Google NotebookLM. Some individuals counsel it’s somewhat higher; we’ve observed the voices sound somewhat completely different. In the meantime, in Google NotebookLM, you can now talk to the AI podcast hosts, which you’ll’t do with the AI podcast hosts in Illuminate AI. There’s a technique right here, if solely we may see it.
The New Hampshire podcast Seacoast Stories now has a beer named after it. Loaded Query Brewing of Portsmouth NH has made it in collaboration with the podcast. We’re advised it’s a clear IPA bursting with notes of orange, papaya and grapefruit, balanced with a contact of dankness and caramel, however we’ll solely actually know in the event that they ship us some.
The It Is What It Is podcast has announced a US and Canadian tour. The present options platinum-selling recording artists Ma$e and Cam’ron with Treasure “Stat Child” Wilson; all exhibits will probably be recorded for a stay episode, with shock company in every metropolis.
A brand new podcast specializing in Canadian enterprise, The Moment, has been announced by Quill and Canadian Business. The brand new podcast sequence that brings listeners contained in the pivotal moments that outline the journeys of Canada’s most progressive founders and entrepreneurs – and will probably be hosted by Fatima Zaidi and Jason Maghanoy. It begins subsequent month.
How vital are English soccer golf equipment to the communities they serve? Rolling With The Punches seems at Ipswich City FC, a soccer membership price over 200 million kilos, all of the sudden again within the Premier League, and with homeowners eager to capitalise on the momentum constructed over the past three years.
