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    Industry Q4 Earnings, The Politics of Listeners, & More

    13/2/2026 | 10 mins.
    This week in the business of podcasting: the political build of podcast audiences, public media's value in Minneapolis, Q4 earnings calls, and EU countries looking to ban kids from social media.

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    The Politics of Listening, Channel 4's Spotify Plans, & More

    12/2/2026 | 8 mins.
    Today in the business of podcasting: the politics of podcast listenership, podcasting spectacle vs resonance, video podcasts' utility over talk TV, the Nigerian Podcast Index shows growth, and Channel 4 expands further into Spotify video distribution.

    Click here for all the links covered today! You can also find an archive of everything covered on this show by heading to The Download's section of SoundsProfitable.com

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    Video Podcasts @ NY Emmys, Industry Earnings Reports, & More

    11/2/2026 | 6 mins.
    Today in the business of podcasting: the 69th New York Emmys accept video podcasts in certain categories, Q4 earnings calls from several big podcasting names, and a look at modernized contextual targeting that could help news publishers get ads again.
    Click here for all the links covered today! You can also find an archive of everything covered on this show by heading to The Download's section of SoundsProfitable.com
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    The Politics of What We Listen To

    11/2/2026 | 6 mins.
    This week, Tom Webster looks at the political composition of podcast genre audiences and finds that the data may not match the narratives we’ve been telling ourselves.
    Written by Tom Webster
    Edited by Gavin Gaddis
    Audio narration and editing by Gavin Gaddis

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    Red Seat Ventures Acquires Supercast, Upcoming EU Regulations, & More

    10/2/2026 | 6 mins.
    Today in the business of podcasting: American scripted TV consolidates around safe bets, podcast advertising benchmarks for Q4 2024 at Magellan AI, and several EU countries look into banning minors from social media.

    Click here for all the links covered today! You can also find an archive of everything covered on this show by heading to The Download's section of SoundsProfitable.com

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About 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.
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