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SiriusXM has released a new pitch deck to the advertising buy side of online audio. It's called CRL+Z (The Real Sound of Gen ...

Stingray, the music and video distribution and advertising platform, is announcing that it will acquire 23-year-old audio streamer TuneIn. The transaction is valued at $175 million. Stockholder ...

Kurt Hanson is Founding Editor of the daily web-based newsletter called “RAIN: Radio And Internet News” (www.rainnews.com) and speaks around the world as one of the world’s leading experts in the ...

Social media behemoth TikTok is planting its brand in podcasting, with partnership support from iHeartMedia. A new TikTok ...

In its Q3 earnings release Spotify might be daring observers to find a negative number. Perhaps there are some minuses deep ...

In the 12-month measurement at Listen Notes (HERE), new podcast production in took a sizable step downward in October 2025 ...

Global podcast company Acast has released Podcast Pulse 2025, the latest in its annual report series on global podcast trends. (RAIN's coverage of the 2024 report is HERE.) The backbone theme of this ...

Is more better? Not necessarily. Algorithms don't prioritize volume, Steve Goldstein astutely observes in his latest guest column. And he says the mandate is clear: "Make fewer things. Make better ...

Total net revenue declined 11.5% year over year, in the Q3 finance report from Cumulus Media. The company separates digital revenue from total net revenue, offering a more nuanced look at the business ...