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| Happy Thursday, Insiders! In today's Inside Podcasting, we discuss the winners of this year's Edward R. Murrow Awards in podcasting, Amazon Music Unlimited's raise in pricing, and Jam testing out a Podcaster Beta program. Always remember to check out our podcasts to listen to this weekend and see how you could soon own stock in a podcast company. If you find this newsletter useful, please share it with your friends and colleagues. Thank you. Christopher
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| 1 | | The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) announced the winners of the 2023 Edward R. Murrow Awards, and 17 podcasting awards were handed out nationally. The awards honor outstanding achievements in broadcast and digital journalism. More: - The winner for Network TV podcasting was Reclaimed: The Story of Mamie-Till Mobley (ABC News / New York, N.Y.), and the winner for Network Radio podcasting was Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong (American Public Media / St. Paul, Minn.).
- Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting (in partnership with PRX) won four Awards, including Continuing Coverage, Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Investigative Reporting, and News Documentary.
- Other Network Radio awards winners included NPR, ABC News, ESPN, and New York Public Radio.
- The winner for Large Market Radio podcasting was Stop and Frisk: Revisit or Resist (WHYY in partnership with Temple University Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting / Philadelphia, Pa.), and the winner for Large Market TV podcasting was KARE 11 Investigates: Cruel & Unusual (KARE-TV / Minneapolis, Minn.).
- WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Va., won for Small Market TV, and WBHM 90.3 in Birmingham, Ala., won for Small Market Radio.
- The Large Digital Operation podcasting award went to Gimlet (New York, N.Y.) for Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's, and the Small Digital Operation award went to KFF Health News (in partnership with Just Human Productions / Washington, D.C.) for Power to Police Perpetrators.
- The Student Excellence in Podcasts award went to The Maroon, Loyola University New Orleans (New Orleans, La.) for Engulfed: St. John's Fight.
Zoom Out: - The winners will be honored at the Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala on Oct. 9 at Gotham Hall in New York City.
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What the data says: YouTube Premium is one of the more expensive subscriptions that podcast listeners can subscribe to. It costs $13.99 to get rid of ads while you're watching your favorite video podcasts. Spotify Premium, which offers podcast listeners exclusive content, costs $10.99 per month. Amazon Music Unlimited comes in third on the list at $9.99 per month. The lowest price for a specialty podcast subscription is PocketCasts Plus, which lets you organize your podcasts more easily for just $0.99 per month. Relevance: Amazon announced that the price of Amazon Music Unlimited would go up from $8.99 per month for Amazon Prime subscribers to $9.99 per month. If you aren't an Amazon Prime member, a membership to Amazon Music Unlimited costs $10.99 per month. The price of a family plan is going up as well, as it is now going to be $16.99 per month instead of $15.99 per month. Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers will see this reflected on their monthly bills on or after Sept. 19. More news: This comes on the heels of Spotify upping its Premium subscription cost from $9.99 per month to $10.99. The last time Amazon raised its prices was for Amazon Prime in February 2022. | | | |
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| 3 | | LiveOne, the global digital media company, received approval from the Nasdaq Exchange to spin out PodcastOne as its own publicly traded company. The Courtside Group subsidiary, which does business as PodcastOne, was approved to be listed, but the date has not been set yet. More: - Back in January, LiveOne filed to spin off PodcastOne, which at the time was said to have over 300 podcasts.
- In April, LiveOne said that it was planning on listing PodcastOne for between $8 and $12 per share.
- Shares will be traded under the ticket PODC.
- PodcastOne will be valued at $200M.
- CEO Robert Ellin said last week that by going public, PodcastOne would be able to grow by offering potential acquisition targets.
- Shares of LiveOne traded higher after the news was announced.
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| 5 | | Acast has announced Podscribe as its preferred attribution partner in all markets. The leading independent podcast company is partnering with the data and analytics platform to provide advertisers with attribution services at no additional cost. More: - With the partnership, Acast users can measure and optimize podcast advertising campaigns across the open podcasting landscape.
- Certified by the IAB, Podscribe uses advanced technology to provide subscribers with information on how successful a podcast is in order to optimize its advertising strategy.
- Podscribe will allow Acast's advertisers to measure how well show promotion works for each show.
- Acast announced that, as of Sept. 1, it would no longer be using Spotify's Ad Analytics.
- "Working with the biggest marketplace in the open podcasting ecosystem is a natural fit for us. Our team's dedication to providing top-notch services that help advertisers make data-driven decisions and maximize their podcast ad investments matches Acast's scale and dominance perfectly," Pete Birsinger, CEO and Founder at Podscribe, said.
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| 6 | | Jam, a short audio app, has announced a Podcaster Beta program as it builds its platform for podcasts of all lengths. The app is adding community and social features to all podcasts on its app as well. More: - Short audio will remain key to the app's success, and there will be a separate section on the app's homepage for shorter podcast episodes and clips, similar to Stories on Instagram.
- The app, available on iOS and Android, was exclusively for short audio sharing and offered insights from industry experts.
- Pete Davies, Jam's co-founder, said, "We continue to be big believers in shorter audio and learned that for the format to be successful, we need to build it into the broader podcast listening experience."
- Podcasters interested in helping Jam shape its social features can fill out this form.
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- The Australian Podcast Ranker for July was released by Triton Digital.
- Higher Ground and Audible debuted the first episode of Your Mama's Kitchen, hosted by journalist Michelle Norris. The premiere episode featured former First Lady Michelle Obama.
- A U.S. District Court Judge denied Cumulus Media's temporary restraining order against a podcast called The Dumb Zone, hosted by Dan McDowell and Jake Kemp, who hosted The Hang Zone for three years for Cumulus. Cumulus claims The Dumb Zone is an identical podcast to The Hang Zone, which violates the hosts' non-compete, non-solicitation, and non-disparagement clauses.
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 | Freelance Editor | | Christopher Hachey is a freelance writer and editor based in the New York City area. He has spent most of the past 15 years in newsrooms covering all kinds of topics like sports, tech, business, finance, and commerce. He's now returning to his broadcast journalism roots by diving into podcasting news. Reach out to him at chris@inside.com | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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