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The New York Times Unveils Its Stand-Alone Audio App

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The New York Times released its highly anticipated audio app on Wednesday, an ambitious product whose fate could influence the future of audio journalism and whose launch represents the first stand-alone app the publisher has debuted since the Cooking app nine years ago.

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Live Audio Is Not Dead. It’s Niche

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The downturn in the fortunes of live audio, as implied by the recent withdrawal of both Spotify and Reddit from their respective ventures in this space, is not the story of a failed concept, nor a redundant platform. Instead, what we are witnessing is simply a large scale, but far from terminal, shift in response.

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CNN Cuts Down Podcast Programming, Slashes Audio Department

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Top line A tweet from now-former CNN audio. On Tuesday, CNN laid off a bulk of its podcast division, according to a tweet from an employee affected by this latest round of cuts. Parent company Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking $3 billion in cost savings since the April merger of Warner Media and Discovery Inc.

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Listeners Go Out of Their Way to Make Audio Part of Their Day, Study Finds

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Audio company Audacy released findings that show listeners intentionally setting aside time during their day to listen to their favorite audio content, adding another incentive for marketers to invest more ad dollars in the medium. Based on over 1,000 respondents, 74% say they set aside time to listen to audio.

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Predictions 2024: Audio

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The industry buzz around digital audio just keeps getting louder, and it makes sense: research has shown that audio ads outperform video ads in grabbing attention and generating brand recall. In 2023, on-demand audio overtook linear audio for the first [.]

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Integral Ad Science Brings Audio Ad Verification to Pandora

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Ad tech firm Integral Ad Science launched a third-party audio ad measurement tool, IAS Audio Ad Verification, for marketers in the U.S. to use on digital audio streaming platform Pandora.

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TikTok’s New Audio Catalog Caters to Brands on a Budget

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As an audio-first platform that rewards users who creatively adopt viral sounds, TikTok is nurturing small businesses by expediting their creative processes and.

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