Tracking YouTube Engaged Views, How Super Spenders Support Podcasts, & More
Notas del episodio
This week in the business of podcasting:
- Right Side Up and Sounds Profitable host a free October 28 webinar on how AI use and discovery affect podcast ad budgets, drawing on The Podcast Landscape 2026 research.
- Tom Webster breaks down the Super Spenders report, finding that the 11% of podcast consumers who spend $300 or more account for roughly 62% of recalled podcast-driven spending.
- Spotify launches Memberships, letting creators keep 90% of earnings from paid fans, while YMH Studios explains why 12 of its comedy shows launched on day one.
- Bumper releases a free tool for sharing YouTube engaged views with advertisers, after YouTube’s change to how it counts a view nearly doubled views for the average podcast.
- AudioStack argues podcast buying has outpaced podcast creative and makes the case for dynamic creative matched to each episode’s content.
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