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Futuri's social media discovery tool TopicPulse has added several new features. They include alerts for breaking news and social bursts, and viral predictor, which predicts social trends that are about to go viral based on their engagement and growth trends.

Registration is now open for an Edison Research webinar that explores "the unique audio listening habits of U.S. female sports fans and show how they interact with sports beyond the field." 

iHeartMedia has launched a news podcast called The Daily Dive – a 15-minute podcast that posts each weekday at 6 a.m. ET. The Daily Dive is hosted by iHeartMedia’s Los Angeles-based producer, writer, and editor, Oscar Ramirez.

Premiere Networks has unveiled 24, a new weekly election coverage podcast hosted by Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. The podcast will be a part of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network, offering listeners a concise compilation of the past week's election news.

The fan-voted 2018 CMT Music Awards will be simulcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, June 6, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The live radio broadcast of the Awards telecast will air on more than 120 iHeartCountry music radio stations.

As Techsurvey 2024 and the latest Infinite Dial have shown, audio continues to play a vital role in American life. Even as AM/FM leads the audio landscape in reach and engagement, more data shows how podcasts are rapidly winning over new audiences.

It’s called This Pod Is Your Pod and it's the product of a collaboration between Pantsuit Nation and DGital Media. This Pod is Your Pod is a community-based podcast that supports Pantsuit Nation, a non-profit organization dedicated to political advocacy, civic engagement, and a more equitable democracy.

The three companies are launching a new attribution product for radio that will offer marketers a combination of iHeartMedia’s reach and Jelli’s programmatic buying capabilities, with the attribution and insights tools from location technology company Foursquare.

A top-tier streamer is adding a new level of audio to the up-and-coming social media app, BeReal. The companies have partnered to allow users to share what they're listening to on their BeReal posts by connecting accounts. The app is designed to defeat the "staged" aspect of social media.

Chris Jericho launched Talk is Jericho, in 2013 with PodcastOne. This month, Jericho decided to move his show over to Westwood One where he'll produce two shows every week (Wednesday and Friday). Jericho is a six-time WWE champion, a musician, and New York Times bestselling author.