Audioboom posts record revenue

Дата публикации: 16-04-2026 11:29:26

More revenue, more profit, but how's video helping?.
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• Audioboom released a trading update for Q1/26. Revenue is up +30% year-on-year to another record of $22.5mn; the company made $4.8mn profit (up +41%). However, Audioboom describes video - up +70% in views - as “lower-yield”; revenue per thousand downloads is down from $60.83 to $45.10 as a result of more video and more downloads within the UK, which historically monetises less well than the US. The company recently signed Crooked Media and true-crime show RedHanded.

• Sounds Profitable’s Tom Webster is running a free webinar today at 2pm ET, looking at Audio Primes: the people who listen to podcasts. The report, sponsored by RSS.com, look at podcast consumers who prefer audio, not video: and “they defy every stereotype you might have about them”, we’re told. You can sign up free, here.

• Which are the best true crime shows - for advertisers? Where are the ads in those shows working the best? Oxford Road has released data today from ORBIT which draws from more than $1.6bn in campaign data. The research shows that advertisers are timidly investing in the genre; and not properly committing. “The nuance of this genre rewards those who explore it.”

• Crooked Media’s Pod Save The UK is to switch production company to Intelligence Squared. The podcast has been produced by Reduced Listening; shows from the new co-production team start on May 7.

• Noiser is to launch The Hound of the Baskervilles, a nine-part podcast series narrated by Hugh Bonneville. The show launches on April 27.

• Podcast hosting and SEO platform Ausha has a new “brand signature” - amplify your voice. The company says it reflects its ambition to help every creator be heard by more people.

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