PodcastOne, a leading publisher, podcast sales network and a subsidiary of LiveOne, has officially launched PodcastOne Pro, a full service solution that specializes in transforming podcasts into polished on-air productions for brands and professionals.

PodcastOne Pro offers customizable service, with à la carte options to meet exact production needs, or a full 360° solution. Services include access to top-of-the-line podcasting studios and equipment (audio and video) strategy, program production, editing, guest booking, distribution, paywall options and promotion across PodcastOne’s existing network of podcasts.

With global podcast listeners expected to surpass one billion by 2027 according to MIDiA Research, PodcastOne is quickly becoming the platform of choice and is currently ranked 13th in Podtrac’s Podcast Industry Top Publishers Rankings for November 2024. As reported in the Q2 fiscal 2025 financial results, PodcastOne expects Fiscal 2025 revenues to increase at least 17% to a record of at least $51.0 million.

“As the only public pure-play podcast company in the United States, PodcastOne is uniquely positioned to help brands, businesses and content creators reach their target audiences more effectively while keeping loyal podcast listeners entertained and engaged,” said Jim Lally, Head of Business Development for PodcastOne. 

“Branded podcasts are financially and logistically challenging for many companies to produce in-house. With the official launch of PodcastOne Pro, we’re able to offer a tailored podcast production solution to our clients that leverages our current infrastructure, which ultimately, drives higher margins, diversifies our revenue streams, and lowers costs for clients,” continued Mr. Lally.

PodcastOne Pro currently services category leading brands such as MotorTrend, Boost Mobile, Microsoft, and LoveSac who are leveraging podcasts to build brand loyalty and connect directly to consumers through the U.S.’s fastest growing medium, podcasting. Numerous studies have proven that podcast audiences connect with products on a level not seen in traditional advertising and marketing mediums.

Coinciding with the launch of PodcastOne Pro, PodcastOne is set to debut its new state of the art podcast production studio in Beverly Hills. Elevating the production experience with cutting-edge audio and video capabilities, this fully equipped facility offers industry-leading technology, ensuring top-tier production quality for both audio and video content.

The new studio enables creators to seamlessly produce, record, and broadcast their shows with unmatched clarity and precision. With versatile setup options and accommodating a wide range of podcast formats from solo recordings to multi-guest interviews, PodcastOne continues to push the boundaries of podcasting, providing creators to push the boundaries of podcasting, providing creators with the tools they need to deliver premium content to their audiences.

“The production behind podcasting has evolved rapidly in the last several years with the incredible uptick in consumer consumption of the medium. We are excited to be able to offer top of the line production facilities and to collaborate with our own Jackie Schimmel (host of Bitch Bible) on the design for the space, creating a dream recording environment for podcasting,” said Stacie Parra and Alaistar Walford, Heads of Production for PodcastOne and Podcast One Pro.

PodcastOne, a leading podcast platform and subsidiary of LiveOne announced that Jim Lally has joined PodcastOne as its Head of Business Development.

He will report directly to PodcastOne’s President Kit Gray and will leverage his industry expertise to expand internal sales and publishing synergies, increase talent and the company’s prominence with both media buyers and content creators.

Lally, an industry veteran, joins from Libsyn Ads, where he served as Director of Brand Partnerships. His experience spans podcasting, digital media, and advertising, with notable roles at WNYC Studios, Soundrise (PRX’s media sales partner), and The New York Times having a direct impact on the sales strategies behind shows like Freakanomics and Radiolab, Ted Talks Daily, This American Life, 99% invisible, and the entire Radiotopia roster of shows.

“I have known Jim and admired his impact in podcasting for over a decade. His wealth of knowledge and innovative sales strategies are widely revered in our industry, and we’re fortunate to have him join our team at PodcastOne. Jim’s immediate contributions to our sales and growth will further strengthen our position as an industry leader,” said Kit Gray, President of PodcastOne.

“As one of the industry’s most enduring networks and having long admired PodcastOne from afar, I’m thrilled to become part of its storied journey. With their collective sense of passion, I couldn’t be more impressed with my new colleagues and look forward to collaborating with them on ways to take the company to new heights!,” said Lally.

Lally graduated from Boston College and received his master’s degree from Baruch College in New York.

About PodcastOne

PodcastOne is a Los Angeles based podcast network founded in 2012 by Kit Gray and Norm Pattiz providing creators and advertisers with a full 360-degree solution in sales, marketing, public relations, production, and distribution delivering over 2.1 billion downloads per year with a community of 250 of the top podcasters, including Adam Carolla, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Jordan Harbinger, LadyGang, A&E’s Cold Case Files, and Varnamtown.

PodcastOne has built a distribution network reaching over 1 billion listeners a month across all of its own properties, LiveOne, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Samsung, and over 150 shows exclusively available in Tesla vehicles. 

PodcastOne is also the parent company of LaunchpadOne, an innovative self-serve platform developed to launch, host, distribute, and monetize independent user-generated podcasts.

For more information, visit PodcastOne.com

PodcastOne, a leading on demand pure play podcast platform offering a 360-degree turnkey solution, including content creation, brand integration and distribution, announced the appointment of Steve Lehman as its Vice Chairman, focusing on helping PodcastOne drive both organic and inorganic growth opportunities, as well as advising PodcastOne’s senior management with regard to PodcastOne’s mergers and acquisitions efforts and overall strategy and increasing its shareholder value.

Lehman will leverage his extensive background in business and finance, having headed both Nasdaq and NYSE companies, as well as start-up businesses in the media, entertainment, and tech industries.

“We are pleased to welcome Steve Lehman to PodcastOne. His unique knowledge of content and media, and his successful track record and history in merger, roll-up, and consolidation, perfectly aligns with PodcastOne’s strategy and vision for its long-term growth. We continue to launch new revenue channels with high margins atop of our existing strong infrastructure, and we look forward to leveraging Steve’s experience, leaning into his expertise and relationships as PodcastOne further builds its global brand,” said PodcastOne President and Co-Founder, Kit Gray.

Lehman has extensive experience on both boards, and advisory boards, with companies including Vymedic Biotech, Valkyrie Bitcoin ETF (Nasdaq), CoFoundersLab, DocuSign, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy, Code and multiple other start-ups to series A companies.

Lehman was a first round investor in Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com, a partner in merchant bank Broadstream Capital Partners, and a seasoned investor, entrepreneur, and lifelong business leader. Lehman was the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the largest radio network in the US, Premiere Networks (Nasdaq), which is now part of iHeartRadio’s empire of audio companies.

PodcastOne, a leading podcast platform and a subsidiary of LiveOne, announced today that the network has experienced unprecedented growth in 2022 across total episode downloads, YouTube subscribers, and social media engagement.

PodcastOne continues to see considerable growth in several key areas of podcast consumption and interaction through the strength of targeted and paired marketing campaigns, episodic launch strategies, and its video strategy.

PodcastOne’s dedicated YouTube channel has seen a 45% increase in views and is up 106% in subscribers in Q3 ’22 compared with total growth at 128% since the start of the calendar year.

On social media, Instagram engagement is up 13.7% over the last 90 days vs the previous 90 days and PodcastOne’s dedicated TikTok account has amassed over 1.5 million views since its inception in July 2021 giving network hosts and podcast advertisers a direct path to promote content to a dedicated fanbase.

“We’ve built a full-funnel marketing operation at PodcastOne that allows us to leverage our current podcasts to grow and launch new shows in both the audio and video spaces. Data coupled with our custom creative strategies and off-network relationships have grown our network audience exponentially and consistently lands our shows in the top 100 chart rankings,” said Ilana Susnow, Head of Marketing & Audience Development of PodcastOne.

With the success of focused marketing and creative and integrated strategies, podcast in key categories such as True Crime, History, TV & Film, Self-Improvement and Society & Culture have seen double- and triple-digit growth in audience downloads. Successes include:

Trust Me, which has grown a remarkable 85% in audience since the beginning of the year.

Cold Case Files has expanded to two weekly episodes due to the overwhelming demand for content. Each week, fans are now treated to an original episode as well as a classic episode replay.

The Dr. Grundry Podcast has shown a 30% uptick in listeners since the beginning of 2022.

American Nightmare Season 2 has relaunched as part of the strategy to launch Season 3 with double digit downloads.

The Prosecutors recently debuted a spin off show, The Prosecutors: Legal Brief, in the wake of the success of its 14% episodic audience growth since onboarding with PodcastOne in January 2022.

“We were getting a few thousand downloads an episode when we first started PodcastOne, and our audience has grown significantly and continues to grow since. Cross-promoting our show with other related shows has been critical for that growth, as well as generally having a team that cares about reaching the right audience and making sure our content is valuable for listeners,” said Lola Blanc, creator and host of Trust Me.

Additional strategic marketing successes include:

Our Fake History has experienced a 25% increase in audience sizes since January 2022.

The Jordan Harbinger Show has had a 25% increase in episodic downloads numbers.

Melissa Gorga On Display and Kail Lowry’s Coffee Convos have each grown over 125% in August alone with On Display climbing to #19 on the All Categories chart on Apple.

Namaste B$tches from Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice and co-host Melissa Pfeister debuted in the Top 100 on Apple’s top podcast chart.

Since early 2022, PodcastOne has consistently charted in the top ten of all reporting podcast networks, and Podtrac reports that the network grew from 6.148M unique US downloads in July 2022 to 7.303M downloads in August for an increase of nearly 19% in overall audience.

PodcastOne, a leading podcast platform and a subsidiary of LiveOne, announced today that it has signed a high seven figure renewal deal with podcast host and former Wall Street attorney Jordan Harbinger that keeps him and his top rated The Jordan Harbinger Show with the network for the foreseeable future. The Jordan Harbinger Show launched with the network in 2018 and is available on PodcastOne, Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Facebook and wherever podcasts are heard.

With download numbers nearing 11 million monthly and over 300 million all-time, The Jordan Harbinger Show is a leading interview podcast featuring in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game from business leaders, entertainers, scientists and athletes to an eclectic array of fascinating minds, from art forgers and arms traffickers to global spies and psychologists. Previous guests have included AirBnB’s entrepreneur Mark Cuban, television journalist Anderson Cooper, Academy Award winning author Matthew McConaughey, musician Moby, hip-hop artist T-Pain, rapper Rick Ross, scientists Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye, and athletes like Kobe Bryant, Dennis Rodman and Tony Hawk.

“Jordan embodies what podcasting is all about. His impeccable interviewing skills, his unmatched rapport with guests, his integrity and his knowledge of marketing and the business of podcasting are keystones in the growth of The Jordan Harbinger Show and his audience is ever expanding. Not only is Jordan a dream partner in podcasting, he’s also a dear friend and we are looking forward to, and anticipating, even bigger things in 2022 and beyond,” said Kit Gray, President of PodcastOne.

The Jordan Harbinger Show has been named one of the “Best Of” and “Most Downloaded Shows” by Apple and has been on the iTunes Top 50 Chart in the U.S., Canada, UK and Australia. The show has been nominated for AdWeek’s Podcast of the Year Awards, Digital Hollywood Award, Discover Pods Awards.