Sounds Profitable

By Bryan BarlettaBusiness Technology

Sounds Profitable episodes

July 21, 2025 Apple Podcasts Data Upgrade, Public Broadcast Funding, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: Apple Podcasts have new listener reports (and Dan Misener has a suggestion for a future one), The New York Times looks at the audience of multi-hour chat podcasts, an overlook at how public broadcasting is impacted by the Senate rescinding $1b in funding, Nicolle Wallce's MSNBC podcast now is aired on MSNBC proper, and Sounds Profitable won the 2025 Content Marketing Institute award for Best Data Storytelling.

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7 min
July 18, 2025Audioboom Acquires Adelicious, Podcasting's Growth Mindset, & More
This week in the business of podcasting.
Audioboom has acquired Adelicious
Selling the health & fitness podcast mindset
Content creators shut out of the Emmys for a second year running
The power of podcast search optimization
Google is indexing Instagram
Video podcasting and YouTube production is creating jobs in an otherwise hurting Hollywood.

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11 min
July 16, 2025 Emmy Creator Shutout, SiriusXM Play Reveal, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: SiriusXM launches an ad-supported tier, Audioboom acquires Adelicious, how Kids & Family podcasts are perfect for the "nag factor", content creators once again left out of the Emmys, and Acast reports on a podcast campaign run for KFC in Australia.

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8 min
July 15, 2025 Gemini Now Sees Instagram, IAB Tech Lab AI Scraping Initiative, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: Google is now indexing Instagram, Ausha's Jennfer Han talks about a recent BBC Studios case study, Digiday looks at the creator industrial complex, and IAB Tech Lab is working on an intiative to monetize LLMs scraping content and give control back to publishers.

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6 min
July 14, 2025 Audioboom's Q2, Video Podcasts Drive Hollywood Jobs, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: Audioboom posts profit in Q2, CMOs seek stability and cutting out the middleman with content creator marketing, and the LA Times covers the burgeoning video production job market caused by the rise of YouTubers and video podcasting.

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5 min
July 11, 2025YouTube Restricting Reuploads, Retaining Podcasting's Spark, & More
This week in the business of podcasting:
There's preservationists who want to save the soul of podcasting, there's growth advocates that welcome the YouTubeifiaction of podcasts. Tom Webster argues both are right, and that binary might be hurting podcasting's ability to preserve its "soul."
The Podcast Host and Alitu CEO Colin Gray talks about the sort-of surprise that was seeing Alitu on stream during Apple's WWDC presentation, as well as his experiences over 15 years of working in podcasting.
YouTube is preparing a crackdown on mass-produced and repetitive video content with some wording updates to the guidelines that run their monetization program.
Spotify has ensured pod.link's future by giving the company back to Nathan Gathright, the original developer.
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10 min
July 10, 2025 Preserving Podcasting's Spark, Stopping Slop Content, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: how podcasting can preserve its spark whiel growing into video, how Alityu ended up on screen at WWDC, YouTube's preparing to crack down on reuploaded/generated content, Jasmine Crockett addresses the need for media-savvy politicians for podcast appearances, and two major AI players working on their own browsers to challenge Google's search engine dominance.

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8 min
July 09, 2025 Managing Many Metrics, The Podcast Exchange Restructuring, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: The Streaming Wars looks at how "watch hours" can be turned into a valuable metric, The Podcast Exchange announces it is filing a Notion of Intention in Canadian bankruptcy court, Signal Hill Insights looks at three common reasons host-read ads fall short, and WPP issues profit warning as Q2 perfomance falls below expectations.

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6 min
July 09, 2025The Podcast Preservation Paradox
Preservationists fear video stealing podcasting’s soul, growth advocates celebrate YouTube driving more to the medium. Thing is, they’re both right.
Written and narrated by Tom Webster
Edited by Bryan Barletta and Gavin Gaddis
Audio editing by Gavin Gaddis

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13 min
July 08, 2025 India's Podcasting Boom, Spotify Returns Pod.Link, & More
Today in the business of podcasting: podcasting is booming in India, Moonbug has a study into how parents consume ad-supported media, Spotify is giving pod.link back to its original developer, an explanation of the Spotify-approved generative AI "band" Velvet Sundown, and Triton Digital has a new annual study on Canadian podcast listner behavior.

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