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Spotify has developed a new array of subscription offers. Rather than the traditional in-or-out model, Spotify is testing a ...

SiriusXM has released a new pitch deck to the advertising buy side of online audio. It's called CRL+Z (The Real Sound of Gen ...

Stingray, the music and video distribution and advertising platform, is announcing that it will acquire 23-year-old audio streamer TuneIn. The transaction is valued at $175 million. Stockholder ...

Social media behemoth TikTok is planting its brand in podcasting, with partnership support from iHeartMedia. A new TikTok ...

Global podcast company Acast has released Podcast Pulse 2025, the latest in its annual report series on global podcast trends. (RAIN's coverage of the 2024 report is HERE.) The backbone theme of this ...

In its Q3 earnings release Spotify might be daring observers to find a negative number. Perhaps there are some minuses deep ...

Is more better? Not necessarily. Algorithms don't prioritize volume, Steve Goldstein astutely observes in his latest guest column. And he says the mandate is clear: "Make fewer things. Make better ...

In the 12-month measurement at Listen Notes (HERE), new podcast production in took a sizable step downward in October 2025 ...

Kurt Hanson is Founding Editor of the daily web-based newsletter called “RAIN: Radio And Internet News” (www.rainnews.com) and speaks around the world as one of the world’s leading experts in the ...

When does podcast listening happen? That question posed and answered by Edison Research in one of its snackable Weekly Insights. “Podcasts can be listened to or watched at any time of day,” Edison ...