Audio Ink

After making hints in their Q1 earnings call, Spotify has joined a number of subscription services, including YouTube Music, in raising its monthly prices. The company has announced a $1 per month increase.

Audio App TuneIn has signed a new multi-year deal with Major League Baseball to become the official audio partner of MLB. The games will be available to paying TuneIn Subscribers.

The upcoming iOS update from Apple is set to introduce native transcripts to its Podcasts app. This feature, leveraging automatic transcription technology, will be for podcasts in English, French, German, and Spanish across more than 170 countries and regions.

Megaphone is a podcast hosting and ad-serving platform from Panoply. Clients include BuzzFeed, WBUR, and Gimlet.

The new weekly podcast is called EmmeStyle and is hosted by Supermodel Emme, who's known for her advocacy of a positive female body image and lifestyle. The podcast is co-produced by AdLarge and Hangar Studios, and will include guests from fashion, beauty, art, culture, money, politics, business, and health.

NASCAR and SiriusXM have inked a multi-year broadcasting agreement renewal, keeping 24/7 NASCAR content on the platform. This includes live broadcasts of every race, daily NASCAR talk shows, and interviews with industry voices on SiriusXM’s NASCAR Radio channel.

Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud comedy brand is launching three new programs. Among the new offerings, a podcast from Hart called Inside Jokes.

The WFAN afternoon drive host returned, in part, because he was launching his own app and would be able to use the show as a way to promote it. The Twitter newbie posted a message to his 83,000 followers that the launch is still on track for next month. "The Mike’s On app is right on schedule. It will debut the last week in August. Get ready!"

Dan Abrams is linking up with SiriusXM for a new radio show starting October 29. The Dan Abrams Show: Where Politics Meets The Law will air live, weekdays on P.O.T.U.S. (channel 124) at 2:00 p.m. ET.

That's according to research from the soon-to-be-released Infinite Dial 2016 study from Edison Research and Triton Digital. Edison reports that the percentage of Americans 12+ who say they have listened to a podcast in the last month is now 21%, up from 17% last year. That number represents about 57 million Americans. Edison and Triton will be hosting a webinar on the study this Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern.