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David Roberts Bids Farewell to ESPN After Two Decades of Influence

"I trusted him. He believed in me tirelessly. He put me front and center with everything. I've never had an executive believe in me as much as he did."

Why Howard Stern Doesn’t Need Daily Radio Anymore

"Howard was the ultimate slave to the art. Perhaps he finally doesn't want to be anymore"

Why Curtis Sliwa Refuses to Be a Donald Trump Echo Chamber on 710 WOR

"I made that very clear in coming back: I was not going to become an echo chamber for Donald Trump. It's proven to be very successful for us."

Inside Andrew Perloff’s Reunion With Paul Pabst To Launch ‘Not So Fast’ on NBC Sports NOW

"There’s a lot of people I would love to work with, but doing something with Paul would have been great... This was in the works for a long time, so a big chunk of the last eight months was developing this show."

New Podcast Atlas Survey: Clips On Social Become Top Podcast Discovery Tool

"Clips put podcast content into the same feeds where the mass-reach money is already going, which makes them the one piece of the podcast world that operates at social-platform scale."

Audio Podcasts Have Higher Trust Levels Than Video Podcasts, New Sounds Profitable Data Shows

Audio rates highest for being "accurate and factual" at 58%, edging out video's 55%.

Political Talk and News Podcast Listeners Evenly Split Down Party Lines, Sounds Profitable Data Shows

"If you were designing a genre from scratch to perfectly mirror the podcast audience, you couldn’t do much better than News."

Blubrry CEO Todd Cochrane Dies

Todd Cochrane, the CEO of podcast firm Blubrry, has died at the age of 61, Barrett Media has learned. In a statement, the company confirmed...

What’s Next for the Podcast Industry After the Pivot to Video?

The next two years will almost certainly bring another seismic change. It could be technological, it could be cultural, and it could come from outside the podcast industry entirely.

Podcast Movement, Sounds Profitable Announce Plans for Merger

As part of the new deal, Sounds Profitable partners Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster will remain shareholders and will also operate independently.

The Podcast Industry Reacts to Amazon Instituting Mass Layoffs at Wondery

"This consolidation reflects a broader shift happening in the industry: the move away from high-cost, narrative-first podcasting toward more scalable, monetizable, and creator-driven formats."

Sounds Profitable’s Tom Webster Believes the Time is Right for the Podcast Industry to Have a Cohesive Message to Advertisers

"Podcasting is the most versatile medium, and I think more and more we're learning that the same people will dip back and forth between audio and video versions of their favorite shows. And I think that's a message that we haven't really talked about in podcasting."

Average News Podcast Listener Nearly 25 Years Younger Than Cable News, Sounds Profitable Data Shows

"News podcast consumers aren't passive - they're active evangelists who drive discovery through word-of-mouth."

More Than 1/3 of Business Podcast Consumers Come From 18-34 Demographic, Sounds Profitable Data Shows

15% of weekly podcast listeners shared that they spent time with business podcasts in the past 30 days.

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Why Howard Stern Doesn’t Need Daily Radio Anymore

"Howard was the ultimate slave to the art. Perhaps he finally doesn't want to be anymore"

Why Curtis Sliwa Refuses to Be a Donald Trump Echo Chamber on 710 WOR

"I made that very clear in coming back: I was not going to become an echo chamber for Donald Trump. It's proven to be very successful for us."

Inside Andrew Perloff’s Reunion With Paul Pabst To Launch ‘Not So Fast’ on NBC Sports NOW

"There’s a lot of people I would love to work with, but doing something with Paul would have been great... This was in the works for a long time, so a big chunk of the last eight months was developing this show."

Four Things Music Radio Can Learn from the Savannah Bananas

"What I saw was part circus, part radio festival, and part New England sports fans reunion. I couldn't help but sit there and think about how radio should be taking notes."