Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT), the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, today announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Megaphone, one of the world’s most innovative podcast advertising and publishing platforms. Together, Spotify and Megaphone will help advertisers and podcast publishers realize the full potential of podcasts. The two […]
Renowned author travels to Lexus headquarters in Japan for cultural, deep dive
Malcolm Gladwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author, long-time New Yorker writer, and host of the podcast Revisionist History®, is a self-proclaimed car nut. Which made him the perfect host to collaborate with Lexus for a six-part podcast which launched on March 5. The podcast title, “Go and See”, is an approximate translation of the […]
2019 was a huge year for the audio industry with Spotify leading a wave of investment and innovation that’s accelerating the growth of podcasting. Time spent listening to online audio reached a record high, while in the US, the number of people who are monthly podcast listeners is expected to climb to 106 million by 2023. Simultaneously, […]
Social Chain Media, part of the global social media and ecommerce business, Social Chain, today announces the appointment of Adam Middleton as a Strategy Director, with experience from LADbible Group and Zenith Media, Tom Whitlow as Head of Podcasting from Global Radio and Richard White as Head of Gaming from Hill+Knowlton Strategies. The flood of […]
The Guardian, in partnership with in-house creative agency OLIVER, has launched new advertising creatives to support daily news podcast, Today in Focus. Appearing on London Underground tube panels from April 8 and running for two weeks, the bespoke design was specially created with podcasting listening and commuting in mind. The adverts feature transcripts of audio […]
The History of Advertising Trust (HAT) has launched its first ever podcast, which reveals the stories behind some of the nation’s most celebrated ads through a series of interviews with creative legends from the golden age of British advertising. Featuring interviews with the likes of Dave Trott, Sir Alan Parker (director of Bugsy Malone) and […]
BrandContent has launched a new podcast – Outfoxed: The Disruptive Content podcast – the only podcast focusing on emerging content marketing trends. Hosted by the BrandContent team, the podcast is a series of 15-20 minute episodes interviewing industry thought-leaders from around the world analysing trends including; voice search, content automation, CRO, robot journalism, and AI. […]
Spark Foundry announced a pop-up podcast mini-series to celebrate International Women’s Day – Her Hustle. The mini-series was created in keeping with this year’s International Women’s Day theme, #BalanceForBetter, by talking to five influential women about their side hustles and how they manage to balance this with other parts of their lives, whether it be […]
Today, no less than 357 million children live in conflict zones. But, as so few of their voices are heard, it equates to around 357 million unheard stories. Many of which are stories of refugees. This insight inspired charity War Child and Amsterdam creative agency Being There to make a 3D audio campaign to […]