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Ken DoctorSeptember 14, 2016

Are you ready to pay for a Netflix for podcasts?

Getting revenue directly from listeners is not an immediate priority for most podcast companies. But when payment does arrive, will the money go mostly to producers, networks, or platforms? Part 3 of a five-part series on the business of on-demand audio.

Nicholas QuahJuly 12, 2016

Hot Pod: Is Audible’s big entry into podcasting innovative enough to push the field forward?

Plus: Staffing changes at NPR, a new player in podcast advertising, and iHeartRadio hearts podcasts a bit more.

Nicholas QuahMay 24, 2016

Hot Pod: We now have new, free rankings to show how podcasts stack up against each other

Plus: Parsing the RadioPublic announcement; premium podcast subscriptions; Bill Simmons oversimplifies things.

Nicholas QuahMarch 8, 2016

Hot Pod: Decoding what makes a podcast a hit on the iTunes charts

Plus: 1 in 5 Americans now listens to podcasts (sort of), Night Vale expands, and WNYC goes local and limited-run to cover gentrification in Brooklyn.

Joshua BentonJanuary 25, 2016

Facebook and adblockers, podcasts and Trump: What the big media trends of 2015 will bring for 2016

The news was mostly bad for publishers and news organizations last year.

Nicholas QuahJanuary 5, 2016

Hot Pod: Mailchimp tries a new ad strategy, behind a paywall

Plus: Reveal staffs up and revs up, another public radio hand jumps to private industry, and dynamic ad insertion: friend or foe to high ad rates?

Check out this handy interactive timeline of the history of podcasting

Nicholas QuahNovember 10, 2015

Hot Pod: About a year after Serial (and Hot Pod’s launch), what does the future of podcasts look like?

“On the one side, you have podcasts-as-the-future-of-radio, and on the other side, you have podcasts-as-an-extension-of-blogging.”

Nicholas QuahSeptember 15, 2015

Hot Pod: Podcast upfronts, 99% Invisible goes dynamic, and Freakonomics goes broadcast

“The variety of companies that were brought on-stage collectively offered a broad range of content types — thus broadening the narrative of what podcasts are and what podcasts can be.”

Shan WangSeptember 11, 2015

Midroll Media, a maker and monetizer of podcasts, bets that audio can be good enough to pay for

“There’s a transaction cost associated with podcasts for every listener. It’s a commitment, a choice. You don’t do it for something you just don’t care that much about.”