In Q3 2025, Swedish households together held approximately 5.3 million music, audiobook and podcast subscriptions — the highest level recorded in Mediavision’s analyses. This corresponds to an increase of about 250,000 subscriptions in a year, mainly driven by music and podcast services. “Willingness to pay for audio continues to rise in Sweden. We see a […]
Netflix has approached North American pay-radio broadcaster SiriusXM to license its video podcasts as part of its major push into the space, according to multiple reports. The deal – unconfirmed – could likely involve exclusivity of the video podcasts on the platform, meaning they would not appear on the likes of YouTube, a source told […]
North American pay-radio operator SiriusXM published its financial numbers for the quarter-year to September 30th and reported it now has 33 million subscribers, and, thanks to services such as its streaming platform Pandora, some 170 million listeners in the US and Canada. Total revenue for the quarter was down 1 per cent at $2.16 billion […]
BBC World Service English is launching a new visualised podcast, which will deliver analysis and expertise on stories from across Asia-Pacific. Launching on November 19th, Asia Specific will bring Asian perspectives on the biggest global news stories, original journalism, and big picture insights on the political, social and economic trends shaping the region. Airing twice […]
News Broadcasting has achieved another set of strong RAJAR results for the Q3 survey period ending September 15th 2025. The group, including national brands talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio and Talk, as well as U105 in Northern Ireland, delivered 6.3 million weekly listeners, with cumulative listening hours of 44.4 million. News Broadcasting is leading […]
The PIA (Syndicat des Producteurs Professionnels et Indépendants de l’Audio, France) and AudioUK (the industry body for the podcast and audio industry) have announced the launch of the International Podcast Alliance (IPA), a collaborative transnational platform uniting professional organisations representing podcast and audio producers, businesses and publishers globally. The IPA aims to strengthen dialogue, share […]
Through an extended partnership with Zeno Media, BBC World Service and BBC News Hausa content is now available on Zeno’s global audio platform, Zeno.FM. Audiences around the world can now access BBC World Service English and BBC News Hausa audio streams on Zeno FM, featuring popular English-language programmes such as The Newsroom, The Documentary and […]
Channel 4 has announced two new podcasts aimed at Gen Z audiences. Untangled fronted by Stacey Dooley and Ben Zand and A News Thing hosted by the comedians of A Comedy Thing by Channel 4, will offer young audiences duly impartial and fact-checked response to the week’s biggest news stories. A News Thing is an enlightening weekly […]
LG Electronics has partnered with Stingray Music to upgrade its free ad-supported audio streaming service, LG Radio+. Available on LG Smart TVs running webOS 6.0 and above in the UK, the US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Korea, LG Radio+ will provide over 200 music channels and thousands of songs to suit diverse tastes. Accessible […]
An application by lawyers for pay-radio operator SiriusXM for a court to dismiss a Class Action which concerns allegations that the satellite broadcaster deliberately hid a 21.4 per cent ‘US Music Royalty Fee’ from subscribers, and where the accusation is of alleged deceptive pricing, has failed, and the Action can proceed. A federal judge (District […]