Audio

Rubicon Project this week was rebranded to Magnite. Rubicon Project says Magnite is “the world’s largest independent sell-side platform for every channel and format.” Last year, Rubicon Project and Telaria announced a merge to capture growth in Connected TV. The name change was expected for both companies, now merged.

SiriusXM this week announced the acquisition of Simplecast, a podcast management platform, created in 2013, that enables podcasters to publish, manage, and measure their content.

Deezer today announced it has launched podcasts in Turkey. Deezer says users in Turkey can now access their favorite podcasts in the dedicated “Shows” tab in the app.

Deezer this week introduced podcasts to Israel. Podcasts are available in Israel in the podcast tab “Shows.”

Deutsche Telekom today announced the launch of a new Smart Speaker, that comes with Deutsche Telekom’s new voice assistant, and also with Amazon’s Alexa, as second voice assistant.

Podhero was launched last week, on 4th of June, and the app has the mission to help podcast creators get paid. Subscribers pay $5.99 per month, and the subscription is divided and shared among the shows they choose to support.

70% of Canadians are listening online audio; 37% of Canadians age 18 and older are monthly podcast listeners; 18% have listened to online audio in-car; 26% of those in Canada age 18+ own at least one smart speaker.

Sonos last week launched Sonos Radio, a free and ad-supported streaming radio service, in France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, and New Zealand.