Tag: podcast

Spotify Buys Megaphone for $235 million – Who is Losing Out? Consumers

Post author By Steve
Post date November 11, 2020

It was confirmed that Spotify is buying Megaphone for $235 million.

Megaphone is a podcasting hosting and advertising company – it’s easy to see how this fits into Spotify’s plans for world domination in the podcast market, but it will throw up a lot of concerns on how powerful Spotify is in this market now and how they plan to control all the data around podcasts.

These podcasts should be platform agnostic – like music. However, they seem to be getting acquired and then made exclusive for either Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal or whoever has the most money at the time.

Who is going to lose out? CONSUMERS!

Tags advertising, apple music, deezer, hosting, megaphone, podcast, podcasts, spotify

Tech

How can I copyright my podcast, and is this important?

Post author By Steve
Post date September 4, 2020

Copy writing your podcast isn’t that important. It is far more important to think about Trademarks when your podcast brand becomes valuable to make sure no one can copy you and gain from your brand.

Tags audio, copyright, copyrights, podcast, trademarks

Tech

Is Spotify Trying to Takeover the Podcast Market?

Post author By Steve
Post date August 25, 2020

Yes.

Spotify has very quickly become the largest player in the world for Podcasts. Spotify has been signing exclusive deals with Podcasters, buying studios and also the world’s largest distribution service specifically for Podcasts.

Spotify wants to own the audio spectrum – music, podcasts, etc (I’m sure audiobooks are next).

Tags music streaming, podcast, podcasting, podcasts, spotify

Tech

How much can you earn from a Spotify podcast?

Post author By Steve
Post date July 25, 2020

Podcasts are completely free on Spotify at the moment. Thus, Spotify won’t pay you any royalties no matter how many times your podcast is played or downloaded.

How Do I Make Money on Podcasts?

Advertising / Sponsors is the main way to monetize a podcast at present. You will need to create a podcast with listeners and then go out and find Sponsors.

Tags advertising, audio, download, monetization, money, podcast, royalties, sponsors, spotify

Tech Video

Jeff Housenbold Interview – How Softbank Vision Fund Deploys $100 billion

Post author By Steve
Post date April 3, 2020

I have been watching This Week in Startups – with Jason Calacanis – pretty much since the beginning. The video series / podcast provides a great insight in to some of the leading minds in the technology world.

Jeff Housenbold (Softbank Vision Fund) recently sat down with Jason to talk about the Softbank Vision Fund and some of its portfolio companies.

The comments about Growth vs Profit were very interesting and provided great insight.

Tags interview, jason calacanis, jeff housenbold, podcast, softbank, softbank vision fund, tech, this week in startups, video, vision fund