AMPLIFI MEDIA's STEVE GOLDSTEIN offers his view on the growth of podcasting in his latest post on his "Blogstein" blog. In the piece, GOLDSTEIN attempts to address the oft-repeated question "Why isn't podcasting bigger?" by counseling that "the lens needs to be adjusted properly to see the growth."
It's a moment so celebrated that no TV drama about the Second World War is complete without it. At 11.15am on 3 September 1939, Neville Chamberlain made a live radio broadcast from Downing Street announcing that "this country is now at war with Germany".
Eddy Cue's interview at Code Media conference contained the usual dodges regarding new Apple products like VR hardware and Apple's attempts at negotiating with cable companies, but he was surprisingly blunt about Apple's interest in the podcast space. Cue said that the company is "working on new features for podcasts, stay tuned."
There are more today than ever, from legacy radio productions to new and amateur voices. The number of podcast listeners is growing steadily year over year. There's more ad dollars, both unique number of advertisers and types of advertisers, than we've previously seen.
Before he left Comcast SportsNet two months ago, veteran broadcaster Ron Burke was one of the network's most recognizable personalities due to his long stint hosting the network's morning news report Sportsrise. But like his colleagues Leslie Gudel and Neil Hartmann, Burke parted ways with CSN after 19 years, part of a shift in programming focused on opinion and debate aimed at attracting more millennial viewers.
Despite having been around since the noughties, podcasts are one of those things that you're either really into, or know next to nothing about.
Podcasters like to argue that theirs is the most intimate medium. But to grow their businesses, more and more of them are getting into live events, with producers big and small either growing or launching events operations.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Democratic legislators in both chambers have decided to take the airwaves in what has recently become a much more conventional method of communication: podcasting. Kansas City Democrats Rep. Lauren Arthur and Jon Carpenter launched their podcast, Podgressive, releasing the first episode on Soundcloud Sunday.
Editor's note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday. Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 111, published March 14, 2017. Infinite Dial 2017.
WASHINGTON ― Former Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) welcomed a reporter into her apartment, which overlooks the Potomac River in Maryland's Prince George's County, on a warm winter morning. "How long do you have?" I asked. "I have all the time in world," Edwards responded with a chuckle. "I'm not in Congress anymore."