Podcast fans' purchase power, and kids get Alexa skills

• With Nielsen, podcast network Cadence13 released a slew of data around podcast listener purchasing power today; including where podcast listeners over-index. (Snacks!)

  
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• Children’s radio station Fun Kids is a launch partner for Amazon Alexa skills for kids in the UK. Here’s more about Kid Skills.

  
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• Spotify (the second-largest source of podcast listening) posted their first quarterly earnings data as a public company. 170m users, 75m paid subscribers. Revenue €1.14bn (US$1.36bn). It’s still losing money.

• Blubrry’s Todd Cochrane has a view on the adoption of podcast pingback and RAD. He says he spoke with someone at Apple, and 'when posed the question on a scale of 1-10 would Apple participate in RAD I was asked why zero was not an option’.

  • The Podnews podcast now supports podcast pingback: I’ve built a receiver and tagged the RSS feed. I’ll open our pingback data to help developers shortly. There’s also a demo on the project website.

“The Daily has more listeners than the weekday newspaper has ever had.” - New York Times evp and COO Meredith Kopit Levien. It averages one million downloads a day.

• New podcasts:

  • Inside Trader Joe’s, a US grocery store chain, including “the values that make Trader Joe’s so different.”
  • Opie Radio, a return for former SiriusXM radio presenter Gregg 'Opie’ Hughes, on the Westwood One Podcast Network.
  • Asian Development Bank has produced a new series on the future of work in Asia (made by Earshot Strategies).
  • Democracy in Color launches season three next Monday, produced by Lantigua Williams & Co.
  • NPR’s Embedded is also back for a new season. Here’s what’s coming soon.

• People: Amanda McCartney (ex Slate/Panoply) joins the New York Times advertising sales team as Director of Audio and Podcasts; SoundCloud has hired Nancy Hood (ex PayPal) as their “Senior Vice President, Listener” (leading the SoundCloud consumer product).