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The new partnership will allow PodcastOne to offer advertisers audio advertising with one-to-one targeting abilities. PodcastOne will now be able to use AdsWizz’s suite of products, including Audio Ad Insertion Software for on-demand content, AudioServe for campaign management, and PodWave, a marketplace for podcast audio inventory.

iHeartMedia and TikTok are teaming up on a new singing competition, designed to turn music discovery into an interactive, community-led experience for unsigned creators that can take them from the app to the stage to the radio.

The podcast industry may be on the verge of another major consolidation as iHeartMedia reportedly prepares a bid for Audioboom, another top-five player in the global podcasting market. Audioboom has allegedly hired J Goodwin & Co. to evaluate potential buyers.

Rock’n Robin Productions and ABC Radio are producing another season of the podcast "Robin Roberts: Everybody's Got Something." The first of ten episodes of the second season will be available this Wednesday with additional episodes released every Wednesday.

In an extension of the national presence of its flagship radio brands, New York City's Hot 97 (WQHT) and WBLS will now be heard in major multicultural markets across Southern California and Texas, taking talent like Ebro, Funk Flex, and Jusnik out west.

Compass Media Networks will return this fall with its 17th season of college football coverage, featuring live radio broadcasts for top matchups across the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, and SEC with play-by-play from Gregg Daniels and Bill Rosinski.

KQED's investigative podcast On Our Watch has returned with a new season focused on revealing the dark corners of California State Prison, Sacramento. The series follows whistleblowing correctional officers Valentino Rodriguez Jr. and Sergeant Kevin Steele.

The official mobile app for Country Radio Seminar is now available for download on iPhone and Android mobile devices.

Spotify has begun notifying its US Premium subscribers of a forthcoming price increase, again raising its monthly plan rate by a dollar beginning with February billing cycles, a step that aligns with expectations set late last year.

SiriusXM issued a press release Monday that said it added 465,000 net new subscribers in the first quarter of 2016, resulting in a new total of 30.1 million subs as of the end of Q1. That's a record for the company. Self-pay net additions were 348,000 in the quarter, resulting in a self-pay subscriber base of 24.6 million at quarter's end. SiriusXM reports first-quarter revenue on April 28, 2016.