James Cridland In this week's column, James assesses innovation in radio. American: no innovation for 19 years. Other part of ...

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Podcast advertising analytics platform Magellan AI has released the Q3 edition of its quarterly podcast advertising benchmark ...

Podcast production house Audiochuck, which was founded by Ashley Flowers, is being sued by the Anatomy of Murder podcast, in a case of a client bringing a lawsuit against its service provider. At the ...

Here's the pitch: "Spotlighting the people, connections, and stories behind your music." Spotify is enhancing one of its ...

London based research consultancy MIDiA Research has released a brief, densely packed infographic titled The Future of Labels ...

It’s a collision of values. The pride of podcasting is its personality. The value of AI is its automated replicability. Unstoppable force meets immovable object. That’s one way to frame the launch of ...

Royalty collection and distribution agency SoundExchange has won a judgment of $9,765,396, plus legal fees, from the Slacker Radio division of LiveOne (formerly LiveXLive) in the U.S. District Court ...

Spotify has released a Music Economics Report for 2024. In it, we see interesting metrics about the platform’s reach, payouts to participating artists, metrics pertaining to songwriters and composers, ...

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 ...

Following its acquisition by Audioboom in July of this year (RAIN HERE), we learn that Adelicious has merged its sales and partnership teams with the corresponding teams at Audioboom. The action is ...

Spotify has developed a new array of subscription offers. Rather than the traditional in-or-out model, Spotify is testing a system of three Premium offerings: Light, Standard, and Platinum. Each one ...