Audioboom
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Powering podcasting for creators & brands
Website: audioboom.com
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About Audioboom
Audioboom is a global leader in podcasting - our shows are downloaded 125 million times each month by more than 40 million unique listeners around the world. Audioboom is ranked as the fifth largest podcast publisher in the US by Edison Research.
Audioboom's ad-tech and monetisation platform underpins a scalable content business that provides commercial, distribution, marketing and production services for a premium network of top tier podcasts. Key partners include the official Formula 1 podcasts ‘F1: Beyond the Grid’ and ‘F1 Nation’, 'True Crime Obsessed' (US), ‘The Tim Dillon Show' (US), 'No Such Thing As A Fish' (UK) and 'The Cycling Podcast' (UK).
For more information, visit audioboom.com
Latest news
- May 14: Crime Weekly has moved from Audioboom to Red Seat Ventures, signing a multiyear partnership. The show will be streamed on Tubi and FOX One, as well as other podcast and video platforms.
- May 6: Podscribe released its industry rankers for April - for podcasts, for publishers, and for advertisers. 7 of the top 10 podcasts saw decreases in listeners; Audioboom is now bigger than Acast.
- Apr 16: Audioboom released a trading update for Q1/26. Revenue is up +30% year-on-year to another record of $22.5mn; the company made $4.8mn profit (up +41%). However, Audioboom describes video - up +70% in views - as "lower-yield"; revenue per thousand downloads is down from $60.83 to $45.10 as a result of more video and more downloads within the UK, which historically monetises less well than the US. The company recently signed Crooked Media and true-crime show RedHanded.
- Mar 16: Spotify has hired a new Head of Podcasts for the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. Talia Stolerman has worked with Spotify since 2020; and spent five years at Audioboom before that..
- Feb 5: Audioboom has snagged one of the biggest true crime shows. RedHanded joins the network from Wondery. The show took the Gold Listener's Choice Award at the British Podcast Awards three years in a row, and achieves more than 30 million downloads a year.
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