Exclusive: On Air Fest reveals 2025 schedule

Exclusive: On Air Fest has revealed its 2025 schedule, which it calls the most expansive lineup yet. The event, between Feb 19-21 in and around Brooklyn NY, will include more than eighty performances, podcast tapings, panel conversations and workshops. Among the third wave of featured talent announced today is Anderson Cooper, Jemele Hill and Anna Martin. There is also an invite-only Podcast Business Summit with Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman. This will be the event’s eighth year. Tickets are available on the website.

Podcast monetisation company Audioboom published a 2024 Trading Update. In 2024, the company beat analyst forecasts to show an EBITDA profit of $3.4mn. Total revenue for the year was up by 13% to $73.4mn. The company has signed new content partnerships and renewed existing ones, but also managed to reduce minimum guarantee obligations by more than $3mn. The company’s CEO, Stuart Last, joins us in the Podnews Weekly Review this Friday.

For the first time, the Australian Podcast Ranker has a clear, uncontested #1. ARN’s iHeart is number one for podcasting in podcast publishers and in sales representation. It comes as the BBC, represented by ARN’s iHeart, joins the Australian Podcast Ranker for the first time. The BBC is the tenth biggest participating publisher, with 3.3mn downloads. (The ranker is calculated using monthly listeners; the #1 publisher for monthly downloads remains the ABC, who’s podcasts are commercial free in the country.)