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Panoply officially rebranded as Megaphone in early 2019.
I asked Richman about his thoughts on this, and of course, he disagrees.
Were not operating from a position of here comes programmatic advertising!
but from a position of trying to fix problems while preserving whats great about podcast advertising.
The steady drumbeat of consolidation in the podcast business continues.
This development comes not long after SiriusXMs acquisition of Stitcher,which was completed in October.
We have been met with delayed bargaining dates.
These practices purposefully delay substantive bargaining that could lead to contract ratifications.
We are committed to working toward them together.
We call for prompt and good-faith negotiations at the bargaining tables.
News, broadly…
Pushkin Industries announced a new sales and production partnership with iHeartMedia yesterday.
They were previously repped by Cadence13, now owned by Entercom.
Decoderwith Nilay Patel, the successor toRecodeDecodewith Kara Swisher, launches today.
NPRs podcast-to-radio pipeline deepens.From Current: NPR will begin offering stations radio versions of its podcastsCodeSwitchandThroughlinebeginning next year.
A New Union for the U.K. A union gives workers power, she said.
Lets take it seriously, Myles continued.
The case for unionisation can be broadly broken down into two components, Emond argues.
Theres sort of having an official community.
I think thats number one, he said.
And so weve been able to make a demonstrable difference, despite them all being freelancers.
You know, this is still a living.
Youre not here for your health.
You have to make a good, happy life for yourself.
Just because youre passionate about something doesnt mean you should be exploited for it, he said.
This echoes something that Myles told me about the changing nature of the UK audio scene.
you could even see that in the day rate.
These included mental health issues, long hours, and pay that isnt representative of the work being done.
With a Zoom meeting, people can decide to come literally last minute.
They dont have to plan whos going to look after their two year old.
I think its great.
Its made my life a lot easier.
In tomorrowsServant of Pod…Marc Smerling is on the show this week.
(Or maybe, you know, youre from there.)
(I killed them all, of course.)
Both those efforts were made through his new production company, Truth Media.
Share, leave a review, so on.
A premium podcast plan for Spotify?Lets not get too ahead of ourselves with this one.
The survey specifically asks the recipient to visualize a service that stands separately from Spotifys existing music-focused plan offerings.
The Verge spotted Wallensteins observation, spinning it out as a blog post thatyou can find here.
And neither should you, frankly.
At least, not yet.
Such a move would also set the company to directly face off with a fully bundled competitor like Audible.
At this point, they are all well within each others space of competition.
I highly recommendthis write-up by the dude Josh Bentonover at Nieman Lab, who has some thoughts.
A deal is expected in coming months, but theres no guarantee that the discussions wont fall apart.
The specifics of this development shouldnt be terribly surprising.
Whatmightbe surprising, at least to some folks, is the presence of Apple among the reportedly interested parties.
A smaller related question is whether potential acquirers put much weight on Wondery CEO Hernan Lopezs current legal situation.
He continues to face corruption chargesaround the 2015 FIFA scandal, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
