Sounds Profitable

By Bryan BarlettaBusiness Technology

Sounds Profitable episodes

August 28, 2025 Chartable's Official Sundown, YouTube Hype Goes Global, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: Chartable has a death-date, two surprising facts about platform consumption, Australia has a new advertising benchmark study, YouTube takes Hype global, and a look at a kids' podcast that got demonetized.

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August 27, 2025 Swift Podcast Sets Record, Trade Desk Redefines SSP, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: The Trade Desk redefines SSPs as resellers, an interview with Ozen.fm co-founder Rodrigo Tigre, Taylor Swift set a Guinness World Record with her podcast album debut, and an interview with Casuals host Katie Nolan.

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August 26, 2025 Spotify Adds Chat, YouTube's New LLM Filter, & More
Essential news for today in the business of podcasting: YouTube has been quietly sharpening contrast on random YouTube Shorts, Spotify launches an in-app messaging feature, Acast launches Ads Academy, and a roundup of some webinars happening this week.

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6 min
August 25, 2025 Increasing Subscription Prices, YouTube Potential @ the Emmys, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: Spotify's increasing Premium rate, the changing landscape of paid search placement, YouTube podcast elegibility would be a ticket to rejuvinating talk show award categories, and what Black culture means to modern brands.

SiriusXM's survey.

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7 min
August 22, 2025 News Podcast Audience Grows, Sounds Profitable's Future, & More
This week in the business of podcasting: Sounds Profitable merges with Podcast Movement, podcast audiences want choice, a look at news podcast listener demographic changes, YouTube is making it easier for collaborator brand deals to give credit to everyone, and what podcasting left on the table during the Taylor Swift album announcement.

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13 min
August 20, 2025 Video in Open Podcasting, Audiences Love Choice, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: The Podcast Standards Project shows how video can easily become a part of open RSS podcasting, Tom Webster debuts new audience data at Podcast Movement, and Signal Hill Insights has a new report on News podcast audiences.

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6 min
August 19, 2025 YouTube Shorts Collabs Upgraded, Spotify’s Q2 Report, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: What likely depressed Spotify's ad business this past quarter, YouTube adds a collaborator-focused update to Shorts ads, and Wondercraft has a new conversation-based AI to quickly produce content.

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5 min
August 18, 2025 Sounds Profitable x Podcast Movement, Dentsu's Indian Podcast Investment, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: Sounds Profitable and Podcast Movement merge, Dentsu is opening a podcast network in India, and Billboard looks at the numbers for Taylor Swift's last podcast appearance.

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6 min
August 15, 2025 Taylor Swift's Podcast Strategy, Audio's Continued Importance, & More
This week in the business of podcasting: Taylor Swift debuted her new album's name and artwork on a podcast, a look at the resiliency of audio storytelling, Tom Webster reflects on the "video is everything" media narrative, an update to The Podscape is here, and Oxford Road has a new report on the lift provided by running ads on YouTube podcasts.

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12 min
August 14, 2025 Audio Podcasting's Next Evolution, New Podscape Update, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: the new Podscape is now here, Jen Moss writes about the decline of audio storytelling being exaggerated, Tom Webster reflects on podcasting's flexibility in the video age, and The Hollywood Reporter has a special issue just for podcasting.

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