iHeartMedia: America's Leading Audio Company

iHeartMedia, the leading audio company in America, reaches over 250 million people each month. It is number one in both broadcast and digital streaming radio and number one in podcasting, with more downloads than the next three podcast publishers combined; has the number one social footprint among audio players, with seven times more followers than the next audio media brand; and is the only fully integrated audio ad tech platform. With a commitment to creativity, popular culture, constant innovation and community connection and service, the company fosters and embraces a culture that supports and empowers employees of different backgrounds and experiences.

iHeartMedia’s business groups include:

• The iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group, the number one podcast publisher in America; iHeartRadio, the number one digital radio service, available across 250 platforms and 2,000 devices; and the company’s digital sites, newsletters, digital services and programs.
• The iHeartMedia Multiplatform Group reaches 9 out of 10 Americans every month. It includes 860 live broadcast radio stations in over 160 markets; the company’s National Sales organization; its live and virtual events business; Premiere Networks, the industry’s largest networks business; BIN: Black information Network, the first and only 24/7 national and local all-news audio service for the Black community; and the audio industry’s only fully integrated audio ad tech platform.
• The Audio & Media Services segment, including Katz Media Group, the nation’s largest media representation company.

iHeartRadio Live Events

iHeartMedia annually produces seven nationally-recognized live music events and 20,000 other events which build a dynamic connection between stations, artists and fans.

Management Team

The executive management team at iHeartMedia includes people of diverse backgrounds and incredible talent. You can click here to learn more about our company’s senior management.

Recent Success Story

iHeartMedia is now the No.1 podcast publisher globally according to Podtrac, with more than 336 million monthly downloads. The iHeartPodcast Network houses more than 750 iHeartRadio Original shows across a wide variety of genres, including “Stuff You Should Know,” “The Ron Burgundy Podcast,” “Paper Ghosts,” “Fake Doctors, Real Friends,” “Atlanta Monster,” “The Laverne Cox Show,” and “Las Culturistas,” and over a hundred shows from iHeart’s on-air talent – like the “The Breakfast Club” and “The Dan Patrick Show.”

iHeartRadio has partnerships with the top creative talent and brands in media, sports and entertainment, including Shondaland Audio and Shonda Rhimes, Big Money Players Network (Will Ferrell), The Black Effect Network with Charlamagne Tha God, My Cultura, the NFL, the NBA, Bloomberg Media, Sports Illustrated, Pushkin Industries (Malcolm Gladwell) and more.

Two years ago iHeartMedia pledged that 50% of the new podcasts it launched would be from female and diverse creators; the company has achieved almost 70%.

iHeartMedia generated revenue of $3.433B in the last 12 months.

Acquisitions

Voxnest: Tools that give content creators and advertisers a platform to showcase their work in the podcast industry.

Unified: Leverages purpose-built technology to deliver operational excellence and insights across various audio types.

Triton Digital: Provides innovative technology to deliver operational excellence and insights across various audio types.

Jelli: The first programmatic radio advertising platform that provides advertising and analytics solutions for radio.

Stuff Media: The podcast pioneer behind many successful podcasts, including How Stuff Works.

Community Participation and Charity Affiliations

Serving communities across America is the core of what we do.

In 2020, iHeart contributed over $358 million in media to numerous organizations that serve the communities in which our employees live and work.

iHeartMedia Communities, the community engagement division of iHeartMedia, Inc., focuses the company’s ongoing efforts to address critical issues affecting the local communities we serve.

Over the several years we also strengthened our environmental efforts launching iHeartRadio Earth, a long-term sustainability initiative designed to inspire iHeart’s millions of listeners to take action to positively impact the environment.

As the nation navigates the ongoing emotional, social and economic concerns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, iHeartMedia stations have run more than 1.35M spots since March 2020 valued at nearly half a billion dollars of free public service announcements for nonprofit organizations, providing resources, services and information relating to the COVID-19 crisis.

iHeart is the number one media voice for vaccination education and awareness in America. By September 2021, iHeart had delivered more than 4.5 billion impressions, reaching 88.4% of Americans, 49.8 times on average, with messages around slowing the spread of the virus, education and encouraging vaccination through science-based messaging and interviews with public health officials and doctors – particularly to the highest-priority populations and vulnerable communities.

In December 2020, iHeart launched the “iHeartRadio Communities Spotlight Media Grant Program,” an initiative to support organizations that are making a positive impact within the communities iHeart serves – using iHeart’s multi-platform media network to deliver messaging that is timely, relevant and hyper-targeted to most effectively serve underserved communities. Since inception, the company has committed nearly $4M worth of media to organizations fighting against hate and racism.

iHeartMedia publishes an annual Community Impact Report that provides a snapshot of the significant contributions made by iHeartMedia’s employees and 860+ broadcast radio stations to a wide range of causes in the communities in which we live and work.