California listens to more podcasts than any other US state
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California listens to podcasts more than any other US state, says Stitcher, which has posted a look back at the last ten years of podcasting. Among the pieces of data: two-thirds of podcasts are streamed rather than downloaded, the company says.
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London-based Podcast Radio is to expand, and will also broadcast across Manchester in England from Monday. The service is also to partner with Evergreen Podcasts, and will start airing several of their top-rated podcasts over the summer. You can also hear a tailored version of Podnews on the station.
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Pex, a service that is scanning podcasts for music, has revealed that 17% of podcasts contain at least ten seconds of music. Of all types, they add.
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An investor, writing for Seeking Alpha, claims that Spotify is over-valued, and its foray into podcasting “is not a sure-fire success”.
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The Infinite Dial Canada 2020 will be announced in a free webinar on June 4. It’ll give a new figure for Canadian podcast consumption, which is amongst the highest in the world.
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Audioboom is to “participate exclusively” in Triton Digital’s Podcast Reports, according to a press release. Triton competes with Podtrac in the US for a podcast ranker, but also has products in LATAM and Australia, with more countries slated for launch.
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Todd Cochrane, Blubrry’s CEO, gets a feature in Columbus CEO, talking about how the company got started.
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In South Africa, TheMediaOnline claims that the coronavirus “may just have forced the medium into premature puberty”.
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