11 April 2024 Spotify has made two moves in Australia this week. Firstly, they’ve increased premium pricing by $1 a month.
30 March 2024 The 2024 Infinite Dial Report for Edison Research has been released, and shows the percentage of Americans who listen to podcasts, audiobooks and 'online audio'...
13 March 2024 What could possibly go wrong if Spotify let The Inspired Unemployed, aka Matt ‘Falcon’ Ford and Jack Steele, do the marketing for the podcast themselves?...
28 February 2024 I'm not sure if the Workplace Gender Equality Act Data Explorer information about the gender pay gaps for 5000 odd Australian companies was deliberately released...
14 February 2024 Comment by Jen Seyderhelm With so much heated discussion about the value of a playing songs on radio, the monumental sum that the Sony Music...
14 February 2024 Meghan Markle has put Spotify and the rumoured $20 million partnership she and Harry once had with the platform behind her, and has signed with...
2 February 2024 There is an increasingly deep line in the sand being drawn between Australian radio and its music industry, where a relationship once as intertwined as...
20 October 2023 After three months of Beta testing TikTok Music is now publicly available in Australia, Singapore and Mexico. It works in a similar subscription fashion to...
4 October 2023 Spotify has launched its Premium Audiobooks feature in Australia and the UK today, giving users access to a catalogue of 150,000 audiobooks. The Spotify Premium Audiobooks feature allows...
25 September 2023 KIIS 1065 Sydney's #1 Hit Music Station. Not really.
10 August 2023 In a week where Senator David Pocock has sought to introduce a bill seeking to remove 1% cap on broadcast sound recordings, with an immediate...
6 August 2023 Edison Research has released a Podcast Metrics ranker showing the top 50 Podcasts that reach the most people age 13+ in the U.S. for Q2...
26 July 2023 After 12 years Spotify this week finally increased its premium service from $9.99 to 10.99 a month ahead of its Q2 earnings report. That was...
8 July 2023 So much has happened with rival social media apps and services in the last fortnight that it felt time to evaluate, check in with everyone...
22 June 2023 One of the charming things about Spotify is their unpredictability. You never know if what they say will happen will happen, whether they’ll stick with...
21 June 2023 If you have ever worked in radio guaranteed you will have heard comments like: “I was the FIRST to play X artist/Y song on air...
8 June 2023 ON Tuesday and Wednesday June 5 & 6, while we in Australia were all enmeshed in analysing the new GfK Radio 360 Survey measurement system,...
17 June 2022 Following their acquisition by Spotify in December Whooshkaa is encouraging users to migrate their podcasts onto Anchor. As Spotify’s podcast host, Anchor offers a generous free...
31 January 2022 Opinion from Jen Seyderhelm and Peter Saxon. Did you know that Neil Young is technically a one hit wonder in Australia? I’m going to presume that the...
2 December 2021 Spotify has unveiled its annual 2021 Wrapped campaign and personalised user experience. At the same time, they have unveiled the top artists, albums, songs, playlists...
15 November 2021 News.com.au, has launched a weekday news podcast, I’ve Got News For You. Hosted by journalist Andrew ‘Bucky’ Bucklow (pictured above), the 20-minute podcast dives into...
21 October 2021 The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for the 66th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The Walkley Awards, Australia’s pre-eminent national journalism awards,...
20 October 2021 ARN’s iHeartRadio Australia has boosted its already extensive content offering by adding NPR’s podcast slate to the app. NPR is America’s leading independent, non-profit media...
5 October 2021 Spotify is playing podcast matchmaker with Find the One a new digital experience that introduces fans to some of the podcasts they think they’ll be most compatible...
2 September 2021 Spotify is helping friends put their music compatibility to the test with the official launch of a personalized shared playlist called Blend, perfect to connect...
20 August 2021 Spotify believes that "streaming is the future of all audio. "Responding to podcast listeners who have "have pointed out to us that their favorite...
3 May 2021 Comment from Peter Saxon. I’ve done it.
27 April 2021 By James Cridland - Podnews First look: Spotify and Facebook are introducing a new miniplayer experience that allows listeners to enjoy music and podcasts from...
15 April 2021 Spotify have unveiled new and more detailed Podcast Charts along with and highly shareable features so podcasters and listeners alike can share the word of...
6 April 2021 In 2020 Spotify saw a 100% growth in podcast listening hours locally*, with Aussies taking advantage of the 2.2 million podcasts currently available on the...