Sounds Profitable

By Bryan BarlettaBusiness Technology

Sounds Profitable episodes

June 05, 2024 Discord Signs TuneIn, Canadian Tax on Foreign Streamers, & More
Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting: a new Canadian legislation will tax foreign streamers, Discord partners with TuneIn to bring live radio to the platform, and Colgate launches the first ever UK podcast advertising campaign.

Find links to every article mentioned and the full write-up here on Sounds Profitable.
5 min
June 05, 2024“My Audience Won’t Tolerate Advertising”
This week Tom Webster breaks down the upcoming Sounds Profitable study Ad Nauseam and what questions it aims to answer about podcast advertising.
Written by Tom Webster
Audio edited by Newton Schottelkotte
Hosted by Spreaker

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5 min
June 04, 2024 Spotify Signs Nebula for Video, Kids' Podcasts Cut 📱Time, & More
Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting: Spotify’s and Nebula are partnering to bring video essay content to the platform, why retailers hate that you buy big things on your laptop, and the pros and cons of publishers’ AI licensing deals.

Find links to every article mentioned and the full write-up here on Sounds Profitable.
5 min
June 03, 2024 Megaphone to Rejoin IAB, 🍁 Podcast Trend Report, & More
Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting: Spotify’s Megaphone will return to IAB certification, Triton Digital's 2024 Canadian podcasting report, and publishers and advertisers push back against Apple's new "web eraser".

Find links to every article mentioned and the full write-up here on Sounds Profitable.
4 min
May 31, 2024 Addressing Spotify, Aging Out Demographics, & More
Here's what you need to know for this week in the business of podcasting: addressing Spotify's place in podcasting, aging out age demographics, and lessons from the podcasting scene in MENA.

Find links to every article mentioned and the full write-up here on Sounds Profitable.
11 min
May 29, 2024Of Mice and Megaphone
This week Bryan Barletta takes a step back and looks at Spotify's place in podcasting not as a peer to the industry, but as the global multi-platform corporation it is.
Written by Bryan Barletta
Edited by Tom Webster
Audio edited by Gavin Gaddis
Hosted by Spreaker

Sounds Profitable: Narrated Articles is a production of Sounds Profitable. For more information, visit soundsprofitable.com.
14 min
May 23, 2024 Industry Leaders in London, Licensing in Podcasting, & More
Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting: Sounds Profitable interviewed several industry leaders on the show floor of Podcast Show London, a look at how podcasting takes on licensing, Spotify debuts new Austalian statistics for podcasts, and the rising problem of over-attribution in advertising.

Find links to every article mentioned and the full writeup here on Sounds Profitable.
4 min
May 22, 2024 Spotify Podcast Trends, Business Podcast Audience Analysis, & More
Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting: Spotify publishes trend data, Signal Hill Insights looks at the behaviors of business podcast audiences, PMPs are making a comeback in programmatic, and the Hasbro/Audible deal has produced a Peppa Pig podcast.

Find links to every article mentioned and the full write-up here on Sounds Profitable.
4 min
May 17, 2024 Politics in Podcast Ads, Spotify Removes Ad Floor, & More
Here's what you need to know for this week in the business of podcasting: Spotify gets rid of price floors for SPAN, are political ads a good fit for podcast audiences, streaming's 2024 Upfront mirrors podcasting, and advertisers are under-investing in Hispanic audiences.

Find links to every article mentioned and the full write-up on Sounds Profitable.
10 min
May 16, 2024 1/3 UK Listens to Podcasts, Spotify Tests Transcripts, & More
Here's what you need to know for today in the business of podcasting: Spotify has debuted a transcript pilot and listen data, RAJAR has Q1 stats for audio consumption in the UK, and Digiday looks at the Q1 revenue of five major publishers.

Find links to every article mentioned and the full write-up here on Sounds Profitable.
4 min

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