Audio

Australians are consuming more audio, now for more than eleven hours per week. This is a finding from The Infinite Dial 2019 Australia, a study of digital media behavior in Australia, commissioned by Commercial Radio Australia (CRA), Southern Cross Austereo (SCA), and Triton Digital.

In the first quarter of 2019, Spotify had 217 million monthly active users (MAUs) and 100 million paid subscribers.

Amazon this week launched an ad-supported music service on compatible Alexa-enabled devices.

A new app for podcast listening is available since this week. The new app is called Swoot and the app turns podcast listening into a social experience. The motto is: "Podcasts with friends :)"

Google this week announced YouTube Music is now available for free on Google Home speakers. YouTube Music is an ad-supported music service available on Google Home speakers or other Google Assistant-powered speakers.

The certification is AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder and Amazon says it's the industry's first and only certification that validates personal ability to build, test, and publish Amazon Alexa skills.

Triton today announced Stingray selected to utilize Triton’s programmatic audio marketplace (a2x) and audio Sell-Side Platform (Yield-Op) to make its audio inventory available programmatically to media buyers around the world through open and private marketplace deals.

Amazon today announced that Alexa will be launched later this year in Brazil. This is the first Portuguese market where Alexa will be made available.