Spreaker and Blogtalkradio Merger Is A Big Deal

 

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It seems like none of the big media news outlets care to discuss the huge Spreaker / Blogtalkradio merger.  The coverage is so minute I know several fellow podcasters who don't believe this story isn't fake news.  Podcasters who know recognize each of the players has great aspects and each has a few crappy aspects so the prospect of the merger represents an overall boost to the quality of the podcasts that can be produced.  Maybe this story doesn't mean much to anyone but podcasters, for now, but we're talking about 50,000 podcasts!  Podcast host Art19 is a part of the merger and has raised $7.5 million that will go a long way to ramp up the infrastructure.  Anyway, read the press release and see for yourself:

NEW YORK (PRWEB) August 22, 2017

Spreaker & BlogTalkRadio announced today that their respective Boards have approved a merger of the two companies that promises to create the leading technology platform for podcast creation and monetization. The combined entity is comprised of more than 50,000 podcasts, millions of listeners globally, and a proprietary suite of creation and monetization technologies that enable podcasters to manage each step of the creation, distribution and commercialization process with an easy to use, all in one solution.

Francesco Baschieri, co-founder and CEO of Spreaker, who will serve as President of the combined company, said, “We’re combining Spreaker’s best-in-class mobile and web content management system and creation tools with BlogTalkRadio’s first-to-market monetization platform. The merged company operates at massive scale delivering unique value to independent hosts, podcast networks, and larger mainstream publishers alike.”

Baschieri added, “BlogTalkRadio recently released its ‘big data’ audience data solution, Cortex. Through the combination of this technology platform with Spreaker’s sophisticated mobile apps and creation tools, we can deliver the ‘holy grail’ to the podcasting industry -- targeted buys enriched by analytics and audience data that provide extremely high accuracy and transparency to advertisers, while also providing rich feedback loops for content creators to improve their content. This tightly-coupled capability, supported by Spreaker’s existing promotional deals and distribution channels with the likes of iHeartRadio, iTunes and Sonos, will make our company an instant leader in the space.”

In connection with the merger, shareholders from each of Spreaker and BlogTalkRadio will be making investments in support of the combined company’s growth plan, which will be rolled out over the next several months. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Team members from both companies will be participating on panels and exhibitions at the industry’s largest event, the Podcast Movement (#PM17), in Los Angeles, CA, from August 23-25.

Contact:

Hal Bringman
hal@nvpr.com
310-210-8011

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Jewish Producer Gets Active

Yeah, Jewish Producer has kept a low-profile in the early stages of Mr. Midnight Movie's film production.  He has been putting pieces together, strategically, like a puzzle.  Recent advancements in the project have the small crew anxious and unusually busy.  Also, MMM and JP have been sporadically airing shows on Spreaker, a known online-radio network that has provided them with a modest service, for about a modest cost.  The 45-minute "podcasts" are a jamboree of thoughts and issues discussed, sometimes over and over, until some sort of consensus is reached.  The content of these shows has not been particularly thought out, but has been more of a ad-lib attempt to develop rhythm and harmony, possibly some simpatico.

Check out the app to your right to listen to our latest episode, recorded live on Spreaker.

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JP FOR JESUS

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JP and MMM on Debi Daly Network! It's a Friday, yo!

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Writer's Contest - Jewish Producer v Debi Daly (Part 2 of 2!)

PART 2 of 2 - Writing contest: The proposal calls for Debi and Jewish Producer to each write a 300 word (minimum) essay.  Each essay will be displayed without the author's name attached to the post.   You the reader will have to determine the author of each penned blog-post.  See below, read the first post and guess who wrote it in the comment section.. Is the author of the following Debi or JP????

Essay #2:  I hate Fellow Shoppers.

Today I was pulled out of my daydream by the reality of a woman asking the cashier at Macy's in Northpark Mall if they sold a certain dress in a size different than the one she was holding. How dare she distract this overworked, minimum wage, neanderthal to ask the stupid question.  "No Mam, we keep several things hidden from people like you", is what I said to myself. 

The cashier said without even looking at the dress "Nope".  I could sense that the cashier was actually happy that this poor woman would now have to scour the Earth for her precious size 22.  It simply amazes me the way people are so rude.  They seem so "deserving."   The cashier , who was young and a little asexual, offered (without looking up, naturally), "I think there's another place somewhere around here, but I think they moved. I'd Google it if I were you." The poor, overweight woman was nearly sweating. We could all then see that she didn't speak English very well and didn't understand any of what cashier  had said. But she could smell the tension and didn't dare ask for it to be repeated.  She turned away, bowed her head and moved on with her life, dress-less and broken. My heart softened and I wanted to shout after her, "I will help you Google it!" but I couldn't speak. There was no more water in my decaying body and my mouth would not open.
Forty-five minutes later, I was barely carrying a pulse when the unthinkable happened.   The cashier spoke to me and said "Did you find everything okay?"  It was time. I was the chosen.  I peeled myself off the end cap I'd been laying on and rolled the squeaky stroller to the heart of the hell-mouth. I was faced with a dilemma; Now that I was in the driver's seat, should I dish back the unfriendly filth this demon had spewed over all of us, or should I take the high road. I thought about my family whom I'm sure would've immediately laid into this cashier, so I resisted my DNA and chose the high road. I didn't know where this was coming from, it was as if I was possessed or had forgotten the 45 minutes of my life that had just been pillaged from me, but I was actually friendly with cashier . It must've been that I knew I would be getting my life back soon. How the faintest glimmer of hope can lift the soul. I spoke in concise sentences so that those whom came after me would not be burdened by my needs or extra chatter. Because of this, I was pretty sure I got the wrong amount of fabric, but fuck it, there was no going back.  The cashier  mumbled about their "system" needing to reboot and my knees buckled, and I thought…."I hate fellow shoppers."

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White Guilt Podcast - Our First IheartRadio Podcast!

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The Laziest Man On Earth

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Our Martin Luther King, Jr. Show

Well, as per usual we suffer through some awful sound problems but if you carry on, particularly to about a 1/3 of the way in and take it all the way home from there you'll feel enlightened.

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We had a decent New Movie Thursday show this week

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Jewish Producer Goes to the River

It would have been a typical day at the river had not a giant gang bangin' alcoholic weed-freak "jumped" off a boulder. Observe as the big man literally runs down the side of the rock before making an atomic splash. I'd be lying if I said this didn't help make the day more special than it already was. Thank you, gang bangers.

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Stop White Guilt: This One's for America

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Jewish Producer Gets Railroaded by Debi Daly

EDITOR'S NOTE:  THIS RECORDING HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN AT THE URGING OF THE MR MIDNIGHT MOVIE TEAM DUE TO THE FACT IT WAS ALLOWING EASY ACCESS TO A SHOW THAT NO LONGER STRIVES FOR GROWTH, THUSLY IT SHALL REMAIN STUCK IN MEDIOCRITY.  WHILE JP BELIEVES THE SHAME SHOULD BE DIRECTLY PLACED ON MR. SOLUTIONS FOR HIS PARTICIPATION IN A REPUTATION BURSTING, REPULSIVE, INDIGNANT, INTELLECTUALLY VOID  SHOW THAT ATTEMPTED TO BE PLAYED OFF AS A SOME SORT OF DEBATE, MR MIDNIGHT MOVIE INCORRECTLY BELIEVED THAT DEBI HAD MORE CLASS.  MR MIDNIGHT MOVIE WAS WRONG. DEBI HAD ALREADY GIVEN THE TEAM ALL THE CLUES THEY NEEDED PRIOR TO THE SHOW AIRING.  #BUTTHURTDALY

Debi misrepresented when she advertised this as a debate.  Instead she resorted to personal attacks starting upon bringing me on the air, but still good fun.

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