SiriusXM Set to Broadcast MLB 2024 All-Star Week In Arlington
SiriusXM has prepped its coverage of Major League Baseball's 2024 All-Star Week from Arlington, TX, running Sunday, July 14, through Tuesday, July 16. Programming will cover the MLB Draft, the T-Mobile Home Run Derby, and the 94th All-Star Game.
Spotify Rolls Out Comments For Podcasts
To compete with YouTube's growing dominance in the podcasting space, Spotify has added the ability to comment on podcast episodes to its app. The new Comments feature builds on the existing Q&A and polls capabilities that Spotify introduced in 2021.
TuneIn Becomes Official Audio Home of the Big 12 Conference
The Big 12 Conference has announced that TuneIn will be the official audio home of the conference. This collaboration includes the creation of a 24/7 Big 12-branded audio station ahead of the college football season opener on August 29.
Audiohook and Barometer Advance GARM Standards For Audio
Audio ad platform Audiohook is harnessing Barometer's AI contextual targeting engine to introduce a set of brand suitability definitions that improve upon the existing Global Alliance for Responsible Media categories by tailoring them specifically for audio content.
YouTube Overtakes Spotify and Apple as Top US Podcast Platform
After years trailing competitors like Spotify and Apple, YouTube has emerged as the most favored platform for podcast consumption in the United States according to Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights' Spring 2024 Podcast Download Report.
Spotify Tests Possibility Of Adding Emergency Alerts To App
As radio continues to be the most reliable platform for the Emergency Alert System, Spotify is experimenting with integrating an EAS into its streaming platform. The music streamer is initially testing this feature in Sweden, as revealed through app code insights.
Podcasting Closes Gap with AM/FM in Spoken Word Audio
In 2017, radio dominated spoken word consumption with 66% of the audio market, but now Edison Research’s latest Share of Ear data is showing podcasting increasingly rivals AM/FM as the preferred platform for spoken word audio.
Edison, SiriusXM, Group M Place A Spotlight On Female Sports Fans
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."
Adthos AI Audio Program Expands Languages, Dialects
AI voice generation has taken on a whole new level, with the addition of "a multitude" of new voices in some 200 languages and dialects now available to users of the Adthos audio platform.
Houston’s Patriot Talk Debuts Radio.Cloud Platform
Hispanic Broadcasting Inc.'s Patriot Talk (KYST-AM) in Houston is the first to launch Radio.Cloud's cloud-native automation and programming model. This allows the Conservative talk station to fully operate from its transmitter site.















