Apple history podcast hits $60,000 funding in less than a day

• The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity later this month will feature, among others, three trade organisations for audio – the UK’s Radiocentre and Australia’s Commercial Radio & Audio have an invite-only session with Professor Mark Ritson, while Sounds Profitable are also hosting a discussion.

• The BBC World Service has announced the winners of its International Audio Drama Competition for 2026. All seems well with the genre – there were more than 800 entries from 87 countries around the world.

• Podcasts from iHeartRadio have been added to LG Radio+ on LG Smart TVs, as well as iHeart’s radio stations. LG Radio+ will also be available on LG xboom speakers.

• Streaming and podcast hosting company StreamGuys has added an automatic AI ad tagging service, to identify and place markers in their clients’ podcasts and archived content.

• Ankler Media’s Like and Subscribe newsletter this week details who at Netflix buys podcasts, and the unique terms they get you to sign.

• Nielsen published The Record: Q1 U.S. audio listening trends. Podcasts are getting 20% of all time with ad-supported audio in the US; larger than ad-supported streaming music, which gets just 16%.

• BridgeWise has added a Podcast Sentiment Analysis Feed to its Context Analytics product, which quantifies what investors are reading, disclosing and saying; now, the company is now able to measure what investors are listening to, checking what podcasters are saying about companies (grouped by ticker symbol).

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