SiriusXM
Address: 
1221 6th Ave 35th fl, New York, NY 10020, USA
Website: www.siriusxm.com
Symbol: SIRI:NASDAQ
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About SiriusXM
SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America with a portfolio of audio businesses including its flagship subscription entertainment service SiriusXM; the ad-supported and premium music streaming services of Pandora; an expansive podcast network; and a suite of business and advertising solutions. Reaching a combined monthly audience of approximately 160 million listeners, SiriusXM offers a broad range of content for listeners everywhere they tune in with a diverse mix of live, on-demand, and curated programming across music, talk, news, and sports. For more about SiriusXM, please go to www.siriusxm.com
Latest news
- Aug 25: “If you can’t define it, you can’t measure it, you can’t monetize it.” - a look at if SiriusXM will make billions from podcasts in the New York Times (gift link)
- Aug 21: A new satellite has been launched for SiriusXM. SXM-10 was launched in June, and is now fully operational. This is nothing to do with podcasts, of course, which don’t need satellites - though when your Editor visited XM Radio in Washington DC, they had just two satellites, called “Rock” and “Roll”.
- Aug 18: If you’ve ever wanted to record a show with Conan O’Brien, now’s your chance - SiriusXM and Airbnb have just announced the next Airbnb Original Experience, to offer fans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be in the studio and participate in a recording of an episode of the beloved podcast (including the intro!). The experience has gone live on Airbnb this morning, and is open to book on Thursday, August 21, at 12pm ET.
- Aug 13: Acast has announced a partnership with Jameela Jamil to launch a brand new comedy show Wrong Turns. The show launched in May, and was with SiriusXM.
- Aug 7: Running since Dec 2021, the legal action against SiriusXM by Disability Rights Advocates for not having transcripts in their app continues; with the lawyers now asking for a further delay until Oct 3. In the meantime, a standard for transcripts in podcast content has been produced; transcripts have been put live in Apple Podcasts, in Pocket Casts and in Spotify, and SiriusXM released a new app with transcription.
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