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Operator
Good morning, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Podcastone's fiscal fourth-quarter and full year-ended March 31, 2026 financial results and business update conference call. (Operator Instructions) Presenting on today's call is Kit Gray, President and Founder of Podcastone, and Craig Christensen, Interim Chief Financial Officer.
I would like to remind you that some of the statements made on today's call are forward-looking and based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve various risks and uncertainties. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the future performance of the company, including expected future financial results and expected future growth in the business.
Actual results may differ materially from those discussed on this call for a variety of reasons. Please refer to the company's filings with the SEC for information about factors which could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements, including those described in its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2026, and subsequent SEC filings.
You'll find reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures discussed today in the company's earnings release, which is posted on its Investor Relations website. The company encourages you to periodically visit its Investor Relations website for important content. The following discussion, including responses to your questions, contains time-sensitive information and reflects management's view as of the date of this call, June 24, 2026. And except as required by law, the company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise this information after today's call. I'd like to highlight to all participants that this call is being recorded.
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I would now like to turn the call over to Podcastone's president, Kit Gray.
Kit Gray - President
Welcome to our fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2026 earnings call. As a reminder, our fiscal year begins on April 1. This quarter marked a strong finish to fiscal 2026 and reflected the continued execution of our strategy to grow Podcastone through premium content, strategic talent partnerships, diversified monetization and technology-driven operations.
Throughout the year, we strengthened our position as one of the leading podcast publishers in the industry while expanding our network with established creator brands, developing original content and driving meaningful growth across our advertising platform.
Podcastone continues to distinguish itself as the leading pure-play podcasting platform in the public markets through a vertically integrated model that combines talent development, content creation, distribution, analytics, monetization and operational efficiencies, all supported by our AI-powered infrastructure.
Our AI toolkit continues to enhance performance across every aspect of the business. Flightpath drives predictive profitability, booster scales, advertising management and proposal recommendations. Adobe Audition ensures best-in-class audio quality. Pod Engine supports discoverability through SEO and insights.
Magellan AI powers advertising attribution. And Opus Pro converts long-form video into short-form content that fuels audience growth across platforms. Our team constantly uses AI-based search components to discover new talent, match trending topics to specific content created on our programs and more. These tools directly support how we grow shows, monetize audiences and operate more efficiently at scale.
Throughout the quarter, we continued expanding and strengthening our content portfolio through a combination of new talent partnerships, creator renewals and original content development. We added several established creator-led podcasts to the Podcastone network, including Wellness Cafe, No Filter with Zack Peter and The Michelle Collins show.
These additions expand our reach across lifestyle, entertainment and culture categories while providing advertisers with access to highly engaged audiences. We also continued investing in original content with the development and launch of It's Okay, We're All Gonna Die with Nurse Julie, demonstrating our ability to identify emerging talent and create new intellectual property within the Podcastone ecosystem.
Across our network, Podcastone creators continue to attract high-profile guests and cultural influencers spanning entertainment, business, health and public affairs. Notable appearances during the quarter include Mel Robbins on Off The Vine, Jerry Seinfeld on The Adam Carolla Show, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Adam Carolla Show, Meredith Marks on Let Me Save You 25 Years, and Morgan Stewart on Yestergays. These appearances demonstrate the reach, relevance, and influence of Podcastone programming across multiple audience segments.
Our momentum throughout the year was further reflected in Podcastone's growing industry standing. During the quarter, Podtrac ranked Podcastone as the seventh largest podcast publisher in the United States, highlighting continued audience growth and the increasing scale of our platform.
Our monetization platform continued to deliver strong results as advertisers increasingly embraced podcasting as a measurable and scalable media channel. Programmatic advertising revenue more than doubled compared to the same January through March period of the prior year, reflecting growing advertiser demand for premium podcast inventory and the continued success of our technology-enabled advertising solutions. This growth demonstrates the effectiveness of our investment in dynamic ad insertion, inventory expansion, audience targeting and automated buying capabilities.
As advertisers continued shifting budgets towards digital, audio and podcasting, Podcastone remains well positioned to capture increasing demand through both direct sales and programmatic channels. Together, with our growing content portfolio, audience expansion, and creator partnerships, these monetization gains further validate our strategy of building a diversified and scalable media platform.
Craig, back to you for our financial results.
Craig Christensen - Interim Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Interim Treasurer, Interim Secretary
All right. Thank you, Kit. As a reminder, our fiscal year began on April 1, 2025, and ended on March 31, 2026. Revenue in our fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 was $15.7 million. Operating loss in the fourth quarter was $460,000 compared to an operating loss of $1.8 million in the same year-ago quarter.
This improvement was driven primarily by higher advertising revenue and operational efficiencies across production and distribution. Net loss for the fourth quarter was $460,000 or negative $0.02 per basic and diluted share compared to net loss of $1.8 million or negative $0.09 per share in the year-ago quarter. Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was $1.9 million compared to $888,000 in the same year ago quarter, driven by revenue growth and contribution margin improvement. We ended the quarter with $3.5 million in cash and cash equivalents and no debt on the balance sheet. Switching now to the full year 2026 results.
Revenue increased 18% to $61.7 million compared to $52.1 million in fiscal year 2025. Operating loss for the fiscal year of 2026 was $2.6 million compared to an operating loss of $6.4 million in fiscal year 2025. This improvement was primarily driven by revenue growth, margin improvement and disciplined cost management. Net loss in fiscal year 2026 was $2.6 million or negative $0.10 per basic and diluted share compared to a net loss of $6.5 million or negative $0.26 per basic and diluted share in fiscal year 2025. Adjusted EBITDA for fiscal year of 2026 was positive $6.3 million compared to adjusted EBITDA of negative $0.5 million in fiscal year 2025.
With that, I'll turn the call back over to you, Kit.
Kit Gray - President
Thanks, Craig. Fiscal 2026 was a transformational year for Podcastone. We expanded our network with established creator brands, renewed many of our most successful long-term partnerships, developed original content, strengthened our monetization platform and increased our industry standing among the largest podcast publishers in the country.
As we look ahead, we remain encouraged by the broader trends shaping the podcast industry. Recent industry research shows total podcast listening time has increased approximately 386% since 2016 and now exceeds 800 million listening hours per week. The continued growth of audience engagement, video podcasting and advertiser adoption reinforces our belief that podcasting remains one of the most compelling and fastest growing segments of digital media.
We are also encouraged by continued investment, strategic partnerships and innovation occurring across the podcast industry. Under Steve Lehman's leadership, we continue evaluating opportunities that can strengthen our platform, expand our creator offerings and enhance long-term shareholder value.
While we remain disciplined in our approach, we believe the continued evolution of the industry creates meaningful opportunities for growth through our partnerships, technology, content development and other strategic initiatives.
As we enter fiscal 2027, we remain focused on expanding our content portfolio, enhancing monetization opportunities for creators and advertisers, growing our audience reach and continuing to build durable value across the Podcastone ecosystem. I want to thank our team, our creators, our advertising partners and our shareholders for their continued support and trust.
With that, we'll now open the line for questions. Operator?
Operator
(Operator Instructions)
Sean McGowan, Roth Capital Partners.
Sean McGowan - Equity Analyst
My first question is regarding this Podtrac number, Kit, you and I have talked about this quite a bit over the last couple of years, but some of those numbers seem to kind of move around a little bit in terms of audience size and how it's classified. So how should we think about that move to number seven in terms of growth of podcast versus either consolidation or other stuff going on in companies that are higher, ranked more high than that? How much of this is real growth?
Kit Gray - President
Sean, good to hear from you. Thanks for the question. I appreciate it. Yes, so Podtrac, it's an interesting measure of success for how you're doing comparative to other people. Just like all rankers when it comes to what's going on in the world in terms of timing, right?
I would say these sports networks may be coming off of football and, it's a cyclical thing, right? Summertime is not as heavy for sports, although this year with the World Cup and stuff like that, it's an interesting time. But it's typically cyclical based on what's going on. I mean if we have shows we're covering that are live right now, those typically get some good numbers. So hard to tell where it's really coming from.
I look at it as exciting for us as a group in terms of our presence in the podcasting world. And I think that, as we continue to grow up the ranker and grow, that's a good thing. That's a good thing for talent to see when we're going out there and acquiring them that we have significant scale. We are a big player in that space. So that's a good thing to say, and it's a good thing to say to advertisers.
But at the end of the day, that's not where we're paid, and that's not where we make our money. Our money is on, are the shows growing? Are we getting our CPMs higher? Are we getting our fill rates higher? That's where we're all graded on, to me, the real crux of the business. It really doesn't come down to Podtrac. It really comes down to how are the shows performing, are we getting more ad dollars on and that's how we look at it.
Sean McGowan - Equity Analyst
So that's helpful. So I guess related to my next question is, so if it isn't just Podtrac, what are some of the other metrics that you use internally to measure how you guys are doing relative to the overall industry?
Kit Gray - President
Yes. Well, when it comes to the industry, Podtrac is a good reference. It doesn't have all the podcasts or podcast networks out there. It's still finding its way through the video side of things and social media side of things. And they've got some things coming out this year that we'll try to incorporate some of that stuff.
I can't really, I look at our competition, obviously, and what they're offering shows that maybe were not and, so forth like that and what's working out there. But really, my job and the team's job is to look at the shows that we have, the shows that we're trying to acquire and it's the whole block, tackling, running and doing the right things that we do every time with the show. What are the sellout rates? Can we get the CPMs up? Is the show growing? Are we marketing it the right way? Are the shows marketing it the right way? Are we getting them on other podcasts to grow? That's really important.
So every two weeks, we as a team look through all our shows and how they're doing, what they're doing in the marketing side of things as new things pop up, whether it's PodRoll or new video, social media techniques that are working. We are looking at how every show on our network can use those tools to go forward.
Sean McGowan - Equity Analyst
A couple of questions of a different nature. Again, we've talked a lot about using stock as a way of compensating the talent and keeping them kind of more aligned with shareholders. So what should we expect for nonemployee stock-based comp going forward? Should we expect the fourth quarter to be an indication of what we would see each quarter? Or will it fluctuate going forward?
Kit Gray - President
Yes. Again, the ones that we're able to do those type of deals with are seeing great value, right, and something that's unique that no one else can offer really. So the partners that have jumped on early on that have reaped the reward in a sense that the stock has gone in the last three or four months. That's been a great payout to those guys. So we see them all, the ones that are currently doing that, continuing.
But I believe you're going to see a lot more jumping into the fray, right, because we now have the case studies have been working and people making more money and having some great upside on it and enjoying the process. So I think we're going to see more of that over the next 12 to 24 months.
Robert Ellin - Executive Chairman
And just to jump in there for a second, Sean, this is a game changer, right? And that what you always want is your talent to get behind your company, right? We want everyone rowing in the same direction. You'll see my brother was on Adam Carolla this morning. Yes, I'm going on Carolla, I think in two weeks on Fox with him, right?
We're going to start to get our talent getting behind the company as well as behind the stock. And when that happens, you get these big social media stars with big audiences. It's a great help to everybody here. It's a great help to building the network and building the audience and continue to grow.
So we're really proud of this and it gives us a huge leg up for negotiating with talent to be able to offer them a currency, right, and a pretty liquid currency now that they can now jump into. And eventually, if the stock has a big run like it deserves, eventually, they'll make money, they'll make additional money, but they'll also create enormous liquidity for the company.
So we're really excited about this and it's something that Kit and I have been working on for the better part of five years. But now the talent is getting so excited about where the company is going. And as we head towards, as we break $50 million revenues, now we break $60 million, and we start to talk about getting to $100 million, there's going to be more and more talent that want to join and want to join our platform. And when you see guys like Dr. Phil join the platform, it's a great indication of how the equity can really be a game changer in locking down talent.
Sean McGowan - Equity Analyst
Okay. That makes sense. And just to clarify, for nonemployee stock-based comp for Podcastone, are all of those shares Podcastone shares? Or are there any LVO shares as well?
Craig Christensen - Interim Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Interim Treasurer, Interim Secretary
We've used both of them.
Robert Ellin - Executive Chairman
Right now, it's all Podcastone, but we've used both along the way, Sean. Right now, all of these are in Podcastone.
Operator
(Operator Instructions)
Leo Carpio, Joseph Gunnar.
Leo Carpio - Analyst
A couple of quick questions. First, on the fiscal 2027 guidance, could you break it down in terms of what is going to be organic growth driven versus acquisitions in terms of new talent that you're going to bring on to the platform? And I have a few follow-up questions.
Kit Gray - President
Sure. That's a little fluid in terms of where exactly that's going to come down to. But we've kind of, like I mentioned in the call, three or four really exciting M&A opportunities that we don't know which ones are going to fall, but we know some of them will. And we also have some really big shows and some other tech things that are in the works. Now I can't tell you like if it's going to be 10% this or 15% this or 70% this.
But what I will tell you is that we're seeing good growth. Even as we're charging through the end of Q1 this year, we're seeing some good things on the sales, just organic growth just based on the medium and you can read it in the trades. I don't even have to make it, these aren't secrets. The podcasting world is doing great. The ad spends are continuing to grow.
The programmatic numbers are continuing to expand. The world is embracing not only the video side of things and the audio side of things with social media, how to buy into communities better. So it's really going to be a blend of all those three things to get us to where we need to be. There's always different things that come along the way, too. We talked a little bit about some of the AI content licensing opportunities that are really exciting as well. So we don't really know exactly how it's going to go to a T, but we're pretty confident by a blend of all those things, we're going to get to the number we need to get to.
Leo Carpio - Analyst
Okay. And then turning to the...
Robert Ellin - Executive Chairman
Just to add to that for one second, in that guidance is not acquisitions. It's acquisitions of talent because we continue to acquire talent every month. We probably add one to two new pieces of talent every month. We probably added 20 last year, but that does not include an acquisition of a company. That includes acquisition of talent. And so we're really excited about the pipeline. And maybe, Kit, you just want to talk a little bit about the pipeline right now and how robust it is.
Kit Gray - President
Yes. On the M&A side of things, we're not only talking to small podcast companies, but bigger podcast companies in the media space, which are all really exciting. There's a bunch of tech aspects that we're looking at too in terms of them being a part of Podcastone in interesting ways.
And then really the talent side of things is strong, if not stronger than it always has been. And again, it comes down to how are we going to make the right decisions for the company that we can continue to grow on both the top line revenue and then in terms of just making big money.
So we've got a lot of things that we're really excited about. I'm traveling a lot. My team's traveling a lot. We're meeting with some really great people that have big aspirations and we think would be great fits for Podcastone.
Leo Carpio - Analyst
Okay. So turning back to in terms of M&A of platforms, are you seeing a robust opportunity in terms of platforms that are available at a rational cost? Or is it just the same conditions that we saw in the prior year?
Robert Ellin - Executive Chairman
I wouldn't call it robust, I mean, I think, let me just jump in for a second, Kit, in that, it's not that there are a lot of smaller, just like we are, we're the microcap of podcasts, right? We're acquiring those podcasts that are doing less than $10 million revenues. The same thing in terms of networks, The networks that we are seeing that are out there are too small for the big guys to gobble up.
So it's a great opportunity for us to pick up, one, two, or three of these, and really take this to over $100 million dollars quickly. And as we said, we're very excited about the M&A side of it and what is going to happen very shortly about accretive add-on acquisitions to it, right?
Separately, Kit was talking about the pipeline of the amount of podcasts, the actual talent that's coming to us. And some of that is because of our stock-based comp, but some of that is also because the industry is getting rolled up. So a lot of acquisitions have happened for the first time in five years, they're starting to buy a podcast networks very aggressively again. So OpenAI just paid a fortune, paid 13.5 times revenues for a podcast network. And Fox just bought two major networks, including Vox, and they're paying huge multiples again.
So for the bigger networks, right, they're going to take those out of the way. For us, we're sitting in the sweet spot where Kit and his team, right, really gives such an advantage to talent because of that 360 play that those smaller networks really need our services in order to really stay in the game. And so I think it's probably the most robust lineup of smaller acquisitions we've seen in the last five to seven years.
Leo Carpio - Analyst
Okay. And then in terms of just the advertising environment, it sounds like it's pretty rich and robust in spite of the economic backdrop we've been hearing in the last few weeks. And is that, do you think that will persist in the coming quarters?
Kit Gray - President
Everything is pointing towards good things in the podcasting front just because brands are seeing great results. They have the ability to do their digital attributions to see uptick and what shows are working and where their budgets are working, what demographics are working for their brands. So we've seen great things on that.
As always, when we go out to advertising agencies, we're not a spots and dots company. I mean, we do that, but really where you get your value is being able to buy into these communities that we offer and not only buy into them, make sure that the campaigns are done the right way. And that's the key, right? That's what we offer that's different than everybody else is that we're meeting with talent. We're working on campaigns that fit into their community the right way and the brands feel comfortable about it, and that's where they'll pay premiums on that.
So it's hard to do. There's a million companies out there that say they can do it, but actually getting the talent to do what the brands need to do, that's the name of the game and that's where you're going to get paid higher CPMs and get more, and get better brand splits, things like that.
The talent that we have, whether they've been with us for seven, eight, nine years, like a lot of them have been, or some of these new ones, they are telling us that, I literally had lunch with one of our shows on Monday in New York City, and they were with two or three other companies before us, just how they're loving the experience, the relationships, the working hand-in-hand with the team to really understand the business that we're partnered in and has been great to them.
So I think you're going to see more and more of that. And I think you're starting to see agencies, ad agencies and brands just buy the ones that they're comfortable with and making the right deals based on proven track records of doing what you'd say you do. And that's our business.
Leo Carpio - Analyst
Okay. And then last question. Can you provide us an update on the Amazon relationship with ART19? I recall you've been moving in terms of the volume activity, as you've been moving up on the thresholds for the contract. Does that momentum continue?
Kit Gray - President
Yes. So the Amazon relationship has just been a great one. Andy and his team over there have been more than just amazing partners. The technology and the efficiencies that we've just been able to use by working with them has been just tremendous. We don't have to spend nearly as much time perfecting that and working on that.
So just the efficiencies alone have been great. But the connection to their sales platform, and their sales team at Amazon took a little bit of a bumpy start over the last year, over the first couple of months just in terms of getting set up and having their team package our programming and podcasting programming into what their offerings are.
But we're really hitting our stride, and we look at sellout percentages and CPMs almost daily and they're all going in the right direction. So we're really happy with that. If we can acquire some of these shows and networks that we're talking about, it'll keep moving us up on the next tier of the minimum guarantee, but we're really excited and happy about where that is right now.
Operator
Barry Sine, Litchfield Hills Research.
Barry Sine - Analyst
First question should be an easy one. I didn't see the number of shows in the press release. How many shows do you have, did you have in the March quarter that you're reporting? Where are you now in terms of the number of shows? What are your top three? And I'm particularly interested in how the Dr. Phil show is going given the high hopes you had for that when he first came on?
Kit Gray - President
Okay. A lot of good questions there. I don't know the exact numbers of where we were when we ended the quarter to where we are exactly right now. But it's in that 200 to 185 show range, give or take one or two. The podcasts that still remain top of the world in podcasting for us, Adam Carolla, Jordan Harbinger, the A&E properties, those remain our top dogs.
Stassi has been doing really great. So there's a good solid group of those that continue to remain at the top of the Podcastone ranker. And I don't know if I got all your answers in there for all your questions. Did I miss something?
Barry Sine - Analyst
Dr. Phil McGraw.
Kit Gray - President
Oh, Dr. Phil. Yes. And Dr. Phil, it's been good. Dr. Phil has two really good shows, right? He's got the Dr. Phil podcast that he does a bunch of times a week. And then, the Murder and Mystery or Mystery and Murder show.
I always get that back the wrong way, but that's been doing great, too. So they fit well into the network we continue to promote in our lifestyle and really our mail network, the Dr. Phil show, and then the Murder, the Mystery and Murder show fits really well in our crime network and we go out and sell the crime space. So it's been a good one. He's under big demand.
We have high hopes that he does a tour through Austin in the next couple of months to hit up some of those big podcasts that he has great relationships with. So those have been amazing. We're really happy with that relationship to date.
Barry Sine - Analyst
Okay. And then Sean asked about the Podtrac data. And I know you said there's some better data items, but things like CPMs, you guys don't report. So it's kind of the best we can do, and it does come out monthly. One flaw that we've talked about with the Podtrac data is, and you just alluded to it, is it does not pick up all of the viewing sources.
And in fact, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't believe it picks up the largest viewing source, which is YouTube. So what percentage do you think of viewing do they pick up? How might we adjust the Podtrac numbers upward to get a broader number?
Kit Gray - President
Yes. So we're in constant contact with the Podtrac team. And they're in a world where they're testing some things to include video as well. So YouTube, Rumble, all those, or even looking at social reach, which now that will include everything from LinkedIn to Active to TikTok, Instagram, all that. So that number is going to get wild. It's hard for you guys to do full analysis on that because it doesn't correlate from impression to impression in terms of sales.
So what we, again, the Podtrac world is just, it doesn't have all the shows, it doesn't have all the networks, but we look at it as at least a good tracker in the industry for where we are and our continued growth. Really, it comes down to the internal side of things, which I know you guys don't see, but the sellout rates, the increased CPMs, the growth of the marketing and the backlog content to monetize that. That's where we live and that's how we try to do the best that we can. You're seeing more and more video numbers. And we have seen a little bit of press on how video can't be quantified as strong as maybe the audio experience.
That seems to be evening out recently in some of the press out there and some of the attribution on it and seeing really good sales results or ROI results just on the video side of things, which is great news for the industry, right? So again, really hard to answer and give you all the information because Podtrac just doesn't have that. They just do the best that they possibly can. They're continuing to evolve. So you'll have more information to look at.
But I would hesitate to say the millions and millions of social media followers that we have is going to kind of just grow our revenue exponentially when you do see that stuff. It's more how we use it to package individual sales deals and buying into communities. And really hard to kind of like quantify for you guys, but that's our world.
Barry Sine - Analyst
Okay. Just to clarify on that Podtrac point. In the past, I think you've said to me that YouTube is the largest source. They're not in there, and they represent about 22% of viewing. Are those three data points still directionally correct, do you think?
Kit Gray - President
I think so. But it really, it's hard because not every show has YouTube, right? Where if they do, they put it out on YouTube as still imagery, right? Because look, we have A&E, Cold Case Files, and that network of shows is one of our biggest groups, right? And they're not on YouTube, right?
And the reason they're not on YouTube is because they're on A&E. And we don't do the video side of things. So they lose out on some of the discovery to that. Other crime shows, they're not conversations that you can just put on YouTube. There are a lot of research, a lot of writing, a lot goes into it behind the scenes.
So it's not something that you could add video to. You can just put the still imagery out there and put your commercials in and use YouTube for discovery and shareability and consumption, but it's different, right? So everything is a little different. So again, it comes down to the shows, how much can we package them together, video, audio, social media, and just go from there.
Barry Sine - Analyst
Okay. And then my last question is regarding the competitive environment versus the other podcast publishers? And if I look at the rankings, the guys that are, the bigger guys that are above you, are they getting more or less aggressive in going after talent? It seems to me that a lot of the ones that are above you are really just only doing their own content, not third party as you do.
And then below you, the smaller podcast publishers, historically you've had a competitive advantage because you just give your podcasters a lot more data and they're able to run their business more effectively. So what are you seeing both above you in terms of competing for talent and above you, your ability to perhaps take talent away from some of the smaller publishers that are below you?
Kit Gray - President
Yes. So above us, when you look at the ranker, I mean, iHeart has got the top two spots there, I don't know. They've just explained that to me a couple of times on how that works. But I think what it is their original shows and then the ones that they represent in air quotes, right? So there, and some of those other shows that you see above us, Libsyn is a lot of hosting, large run of network-type sales that they do on their end, but they also have shows that they work with hand-in-hand.
We're stealing from a bunch of those companies. IHeart has their own financial issues that they're working through. Every time you listen to them on what they're talking about on their earnings calls, it's really strong in terms of podcast growth, right? So that's probably picking up for a lot of the other lagging verticals in their world. So they're concentrating on podcasts, and they can make different deals than we can just because they can funnel money different ways and show growth in certain things.
So they like to do that. But they're a great place for us to go and steal content. And we say that in the right way because we just are, we're very connected. I mean, if you look at all the shows that they have, it's almost impossible to manage all of those the right way. So when we go to the podcasters that are with them, we talk about what we do and people really like it. They like the attention. They like the things that you mentioned earlier about being able to see the numbers and run their business that way based off of that. I think that's a real competitive advantage for us.
When you look at some of the smaller ones behind us, I think it's the same story, right? It's the handholding ability to use all our marketing, our talent booking, our hosting, our sales team, that's still attractive to some of these other shows that are with some of these smaller networks, and we're able to offer scale, right? So it's nice to be able to say, well, you're going to get all of that attention, but you're also going to get scale where we can offer you 30 million or 25 million downloads a month, right, and genres and get you on a bunch of podcasts in our network and off our network to grow. So we look at, we like to kind of, I guess, for lack of better words, attack both the bigger ones and the smaller ones just by knowing what we do best.
Operator
There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call back to Kit Gray for closing remarks.
Kit Gray - President
Thank you, everyone. I really appreciate your time today. It's been a tremendous Q4 and year. We learned a lot. We continued to grow. We made some great relationships. It's been just really a thrill to get Podcastone stock heading in the right direction. We feel really good about where we are and huge upside. Rob mentioned it earlier when he was talking, but we think we're a great value play, a great growth play. We're a great company and a great medium.
So we're really excited about the next year and what we're going to do with Podcastone and the industry. But we just wanted to say thank you for your time today. We appreciate you guys following us, listening to our podcasts and understanding our media. So thank you so much for your time today, and I look forward to talking to you guys throughout the year and updating you as we continue to grow and have great success. So thank you so much and have a great day.
Robert Ellin - Executive Chairman
And just adding one last thing. LiveOne will continue to buy back a substantial amount of Podcastone stock every quarter. We're extraordinarily proud of Kit and the team and what they've done. This is a world-class team that has really held us together this year in a tough year coming off of Slacker. Podcastone has just shined and done a great job.
And so we will continue to do buybacks and continue to add to it. And if the stock can trade way below the industry levels, we'll just keep buying back as much stock as we can, and we'll start again next week. So thank you, everyone, for joining, and thanks, Kit.
Kit Gray - President
Thanks, Rob.
Operator
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