Americans are expected to hit the road in record numbers this Memorial Day weekend despite sharply higher gasoline prices and rising travel costs that are forcing some households to scale back vacation spending. AAA projects that 45 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home between Thursday, May 21, and Monday, May 25, setting a new Memorial Day travel record. The forecast slightly exceeds last year’s total of 44.8 million holiday travelers. Automobile travel

The global podcast economy generated $9.2 billion in revenue last year, up 23% from 2024, as video increasingly becomes a revenue driver rather than just a discovery tool, according to a new report from Hernan Lopez’s Owl & Co. “Video is changing the picture,” he says in the latest Streamonomics newsletter. Owl & Co’s Global Podcast Economy Report is based on more than 300,000 data points across more than 1,600 publishers, along with conversations with more than 100 podcast p

Podcasters who’ve already launched a show are keeping busy, but new data shows that fewer shows are making their debut. Listen Notes reports 9,484 new podcasts launched during April. That is the smallest number in more than a year as the month delivered the fewest number of April debuts in four years. Since 2026 began, Listen Notes says more than 63,000 new shows have launched around the globe. Even as rollouts have slowed, podcasts that have already launched have been active

After months of game planning various scenarios for its future, Vox Media in the end has decided that accepting James Murdoch’s offer was the best path forward. Murdoch will buy the Vox Media Podcast Network and New York Magazine in a transaction that will see the brands become a new Vox Media subsidiary at his Lupa Systems holding company. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed. But The New York Times reports it is valued at more than $300 million. The new Vox Media