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Spotify leaves the IAB; no longer certified

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  • EXCLUSIVE: Spotify is no longer a member of the IAB, having quietly ceased its membership in the last three months. After a press enquiry from Podnews, Spotify’s Megaphone, Chartable and the Spotify for Podcasters host formerly known as Anchor were removed from the published list of compliant companies for podcast measurement. They last underwent certification in 2020.

    • “Spotify values our longstanding partnership with the IAB,” a Spotify spokesperson told Podnews. “For 2024, we’re taking a pause to make sure that we can participate in an active way and will reevaluate a formal membership later this year. In the meantime, Spotify remains committed to the IAB mission. We champion its efforts and remain deeply connected to the work supporting digital advertising without direct membership this year. While Megaphone, Chartable and S4P are not officially IAB certified at this time, all three platforms are compliant to the IAB v2.1 standard.”
    • Spotify is the largest global digital audio advertising company, with ad-supported revenue in Q4/23 of €501mn ($533mn), compared with SiriusXM $479mn; iHeart digital audio revenue $317mn; Cumulus digital revenue $221mn; Audacy digital revenue $69.1mn; Acast $45mn. All these other companies are IAB members.
    • We’d like to carry views from the rest of the industry about this news later this week. Please hit reply (or mail editor@podnews.net) if you’ve something to say.
  • Podcast hosting company Podbean has been also removed from the list of IAB compliant companies. They were last certified in 2020. The IAB’s Compliance Certification Guide states (p12) that a company must submit for certification at least once in the past twelve months.

  • Last week, Libsyn was recertified under the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines v2.1. Captivate and Buzzsprout were last certified under v2.0 in 2020, but both companies are in the process of recertification.

    • The IAB doesn’t publish the costs for undergoing podcast measurement certification; they are - Member: $12,500 (new) / $​6,250​ (renew); Non-Member: $17,500 (new) / $8,750 (renew).

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  • We’re now rate-limiting our podcast pages after significant, sustained crawling from IP addresses belonging to Microsoft. You (and they) can download a complete podcast database from the Podcast Index; extra costs for us have been well over $750. Anyone got Bill’s address?

  • Spotify is supporting chapters - well, Podlove’s chapters. This show has chapter points in it; hosted by RSS Blue, the RSS feed is here.

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  • Open podcast analytics service OP3 has added a new API and renamed one. They’re also looking for translations.

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Companies mentioned above:
Acast logoAcastAnchor logoAnchorAudacy logoAudacyBuzzsprout logoBuzzsproutCaptivate logoCaptivateChartable logoChartableFlightpath logoFlightpathGoalhanger logoGoalhangerIAB logoIABLibsyn logoLibsynMegaphone logoMegaphoneOP3 logoOP3Podcast Business Journal logoPodcast Business JournalRealm logoRealmSiriusXM logoSiriusXMSpotify logoSpotify

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#1 in Apple Podcasts
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#1 in Spotify
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Over the last week, 209,510 podcasts published at least one new episode (down 0.0%). source

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