Seven French Podcasters Selected for Sounds of New York
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Spotify a révolutionné l'écoute de la musique lors de son lancement en 2008. Les auditeurs de Spotify peuvent découvrir et partager gratuitement plus de 70 millions de titres, et plus de 2,9 millions de podcasts, ou de s’abonner à Spotify Premium pour accéder à des fonctionnalités exclusives, notamment une meilleure qualité sonore et une expérience d'écoute à la demande, hors ligne et sans publicité. Aujourd'hui, Spotify est le service de streaming audio par abonnement le plus populaire au monde, avec 365 millions d'utilisateurs, dont 165 millions abonnés, dans 178 marchés.
Radio France, France's leading radio group has started writing its story with podcasting since 2005: a company designed around and for audio in tune with the times and in tune with users. Radio France has been a pioneer in podcasting and is now the leading producer of podcasts in France. In 2022, its podcasts reached an unprecedented number of listenings, exceeding the one billion mark - a number twice as high as in 2017 -. Its abundant catalogue of over 1.5 million podcasts, available free of charge on its mobile application, is both the digital continuity of its radio stations and a space of great freedom, creativity and innovation in sound. The development of podcasts thus constitutes an additional space for the emergence of new talents, which Radio France has been supporting for several years: artists, authors, musicians and actors who are participating in the renewal of the audio formats and sound writings that will shape the radio of tomorrow.
The SACD is the oldest authors’ society in the world. Founded by Beaumarchais in 1777, the society is owned by its author members. It represents more than 60,000 authors in the cinema, audiovisual, digital creation, podcast and performing arts sectors. The SACD manages and defends their rights collectively, provides them with numerous services, offers them workspaces, advises them in their access to their social rights or matters related to their author status... SACD also supports contemporary creation and the distribution of works, thanks to the "private copy remuneration" system.
The Institut National de l'Audiovisuel - INA, a model unique in the world, is a media rich of 80 years of TV, radio and web Heritage. With more than a billion videos viewed every year, it archives, preserves, digitizes and gives access to all audiences one of the richest audiovisual libraries. INA produces and distributes original works, provides content to journalists, directors and experts, trains student and professional communities, develops an ambitious research and innovation activity. In a context of change, the Institute participates in the reinvention of the audiovisual and digital ecosystem by deploying expertise that makes it a distinctive medium, anchored in long time and memory, concerned to transmit knowledge and know-how of which it is the depositary.
Paradiso Media crée des podcasts originaux de fiction et de documentaire, à destination des adultes et de la jeunesse, pour la France et l’international. Drame, comédie, société, intime, thriller, science-fiction, jeunesse. Nous voulons explorer de nouveaux territoires créatifs mais aussi questionner l'époque, ses normes, ses valeurs, ses récits.
Fondé en 2019 par Lorenzo Benedetti, Louis Daboussy et Benoit Dunaigre, le studio a déjà produit plus de 20 programmes et a plusieurs millions d’écoutes à son actif avec, entre autres : L'Affaire B52, Frootch, Brut., Défense de Filmer, Mes 14 ans, Habana business club, À Propos de mon film, Chosen, Cornebidouille, L'École des Loisirs à écouter, etc. en partenariat avec Spotify, Audible, Deezer, Sybel ou Stitcher. En 2021, la série en anglais Love Under Lockdown a été nommée aux Webbys Awards dans la catégorie “Best documentary podcast”. Les programmes du studio totalisent aujourd’hui plus de 100 heures de programmes audio multilingues et plusieurs millions d’écoutes.