2024's Podcast Ad Revenue, Podcasting's Conversion Problem, & More
Essential news for this week in the business of podcasting: Tom Webster talks about stickier podcasting, podcast industry growth last year, Chrome's cancelled third-party cookie prompt, and video podcasts could be coming to Netflix soon.Find links to every article mentioned here on Sounds Profitable.Ā
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Making Podcasts Stickier, Global Podcast Listenership, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: building a full theater instead of just a stage, YouGov's data on global podcast listenership, Omny Studio's new benchmarks for 2024 podcast downloads, and Cumulus Media is leaving NASDAQ early next month.Ā All articles mentioned can be found here on Sounds Profitable.
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Podcasting'sšIncome, Chrome Cancels Pop-Up, & More
Essential news for today in the business of podcasting: Hernan Lopez discusses podcasting's global income, Google is not launching third party cookie permission promps, and a look at YouTube's cross-platform strategy.For links to every article discussed, visit here on Sounds Profitable.Ā
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Branded Content š Revenue, Reconsidering Ad Creative, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: branded content rebounds as a top source of publisher revenue, a look into why ad creative is in decline, and Magellan AI's 2024 review + 2025 preview.Find links to every article mentioned here on Sounds Profitable.
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Netflix š Podcasters, IAB Ad Revenue Report, & More
Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting: IAB's Internet Advertising Revenue Report shows strong growth, coverage of The Advertising Landscape, The New York Times looks at the contendors for "The Oscars of Podcasting", video podcasts are likely to appear on Netflix in the near future, and Spotify + video feature heavily in Coleman Insights + Amplifi Media report on the state of video podcasting.Ā Find links to every article mentioned here on Sounds Profitable.
The pace of change the podcast industry is undergoing is staggering. The implications for podcasters, hosting providers, podcast listening app developers, and advertisers and agencies are enormous. And so is the growth potential. Presented as a companion to the weekly newsletter of the same name, our podcast provides you with direct access to our narrated articles, interviews with industry experts, bleeding-edge research, and can't miss industry news recaps. That Sounds Profitable, right? Assumptions and conventional wisdom will be challenged. Easy answers with no proof of efficacy will be exposed. Because the thinking that got podcast advertising close to a billion dollars annually will need to be drastically overhauled to bring in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars podcast advertising deserves.