PodcastOne True Crime Programming Receives Over 7 Million Monthly Downloads
Featured Shows Include Bad Bad Thing, I Survived, Trust Me and The Prosecutors
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(NewMediaWire) - October 05, 2023 - PodcastOne (NASDAQ: PODC), a leading podcast platform and a subsidiary of LiveOne (NASDAQ: LVO), announced today the debut of True Crime Tuesdays with PodcastOne, a campaign to celebrate true crime genre podcasting. Bad Bad Thing: The Blackstone Sisters is set for True Crime Tuesdays initial spotlight.
Kicking off during the year’s eeriest month, PodcastOne has set plans to highlight fresh content and classic episodes from some of the leading true crime podcasts available. From Bad Bad Thing to I Survived covering everything from murder and mayhem to blood and bodies and everything in between, True Crime Tuesdays is sure to scare up thrilling content.
“True Crime Tuesdays will give you goosebumps as we expose some of the creepiest cases available to listen to in podcasting. Audiences just might want to start sleeping with the light on as we share scary content from the vaults of PodcastOne,” said Kit Gray, President and Co-Founder of PodcastOne.
Spine chilling, jaw dropping and gasp-inducing content from PodcastOne includes CrimeCon Clue Award winning The Prosecutors, A&E’s Cold Case Files, I Survived, Court Junkie, Trust Me, True Crime All the Time Unsolved, Civil and Crime Salad. These shows and more collectively receive over seven million monthly downloads and are available on PodcastOne, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Amazon and wherever podcasts are heard.
About PodcastOne
PodcastOne (Nasdaq: PODC) 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, I’ve Had It, and A&E's Cold Case Files. PodcastOne has built a distribution network reaching over 1 billion listeners a month across all of its own properties, LiveOne (Nasdaq: LVO), 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 and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter at @podcastone.
About LiveOne, Inc.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, LiveOne, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVO) is an award-winning, creator-first, music, entertainment, and technology platform focused on delivering premium experiences and content worldwide through memberships and live and virtual events. The Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries include Slacker Radio, PodcastOne (Nasdaq: PODC), PPVOne, Gramophone Media, Palm Beach Records, CPS, LiveXLive, Drumify and Splitmind. LiveOne is available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Spotify, Samsung, Amazon Fire, Android TV, and through STIRR’s OTT applications. For more information, visit liveone.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter at @liveone.
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