Felicia Day’s Fantasy Comedy ‘Third Eye,’ Featuring Neil Gaiman, Coming to...
Super-geek Felicia Day’s “Third Eye,” an audio original for Audible billed as a comedic love letter to the fantasy genre, is getting an assist from author Neil Gaiman. The scripted fantasy comedy is...
View ArticleAudible Promotes Rachel Ghiazza to Chief Content Officer
Audible announced Rachel Ghiazza has been appointed chief content officer, effective immediately. The four-year veteran of the audiobook and podcast platform most recently served as EVP and head of...
View ArticleJeff Daniels Musical Memoir Podcast ‘Alive and Well Enough’ to Run for Two...
Jeff Daniels’ musical, audio-only memoir “Alive and Well Enough” — blending spoken word, storytelling, original music and performance — is coming exclusively to Audible. All episodes of the 12-episode...
View Article‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Cast Reuniting for Spike-Focused Series
The original cast members of the series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” are returning for an Audible original story, “Slayers: A Buffyverse Story,” set in the same world as the original show. The new story...
View ArticleGet 4 Months of Audible Premium Plus for $5.95/Month With This Early Prime...
For a limited time, Amazon Prime is offering 4 whole mont of their premium audiobook site, Audible Premium Plus, for only $5.95/month — down from its usual $14.95/month. Of course, to take advantage of...
View ArticleAudible on ‘Elevating Everyday Moments’ for Listeners and Recording A-List...
Podcasts are now having world premieres at film festivals, shared Nick Elliot, associate director of content marketing at Audible, in conversation at Variety Studio presented by Canva at Advertising...
View ArticleAudible Premieres YA Thriller ‘Influencer,’ Starring Isabela Merced and...
Isabela Merced and Christopher Briney star in “Influencer,” an Audible original YA psychological thriller about a murderous social-media personality. “Influencer,” which premieres Nov. 2 (available at...
View ArticleAudible Promotes Three Content Executives to New Roles
Amazon’s Audible announced that three veteran content execs — Diana Dapito, Kate Navin and Rhonda Adams Medina — have been promoted to new roles at the audiobook and podcast company. Dapito has been...
View ArticleAudible ‘1984’ Adaptation to Star Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Ervio, Tom Hardy,...
George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece “1984” is getting a new audio-only treatment from Audible. The Audible original audio drama, set to premiere April 4, stars Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick…Boom,”...
View ArticleAudible Lays Off Over 100 Employees, About 5% of Workforce, Amid Broader...
Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook and podcast division, laid off about 5% of its employees, representing just over 100 staffers. The cutbacks come as other Amazon groups — including Prime Video,...
View ArticleMandy Moore Stars as Nashville Music Influencer Sue Brewer in Audible...
Mandy Moore stars in a new Audible podcast series as Sue Brewer, the unsung hero of the outlaw country music movement whose home became the epicenter of the scene in 1960s Nashville. Moore — singer,...
View ArticleAudible and Amazon MGM Studios Pact to Develop TV Series Based on Audio...
Audible Inc. has pacted with its sibling Amazon MGM Studios unit to develop TV series based on a slew of podcasts and other original audio-only content featuring such notables as Kerry Washington,...
View ArticleHigh Fidelity: Audible Rides Audio Boom with Big Investments in Original Content
Mother’s Day weekend 2019 marked a turning point in the young life of Madhuri Shekar. It all started two years before with a phone call from a woman named Kate Navin, then head of theater for Audible....
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