Canalys shared its third-quarter statistics about global smart speaker shipments. Amazon continues to lead the pack, while Google has ceded second place to competitors from China. Amazon saw 65.9% annual growth, with worldwide shipments numbering 10.4 million. Continue Reading
Edison Research and NPR have released the results of a new survey into consumption of spoken word audio content. It includes five years of previously unreleased data about audio, including podcasts, news, sports, talk radio, and audiobooks. The Spoken Word Audio Report found that 73% of the U.S. population listened to spoken word audio in the past month. Continue Reading
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) published an online whitepaper today as a guide to marketers for leveraging digital audio in non-screen environments such as smart speakers, and any delivery system for audio where the user might not be using a screen to see or interact with a marketing message. Continue Reading
BIA has released a new report about U.S. local advertising, with a forecast that political and over-the-top advertising with be critical for growth next year. The report projected that total local advertising revenue will increase from $152.5 billion in 2019 to $161.3 billion in 2020. Continue Reading
CISAC, the organization representing authors’ and composers’ societies, announced that it collected a record-high €9.65 billion in global royalties during 2018. Digital sources were responsible for €1.64 billion of that total. Continue Reading
The October podcast publisher ranking from Podtrac includes a new entry. NBC News made the top ten, landing in ninth with its 24 podcasts. Continue Reading
Stream listening slipped about 4% month-over-month in June, according to the Triton Digital Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker. Pandora, leader of the pack, dropped three percent from March, at just over 2-million average active sessions. Continue Reading
Triton Digital has announced a partnership with Nationaal Luister Onderzoek to launch Podcast Reports in the Netherlands. This report will detail insights on the top podcast networks and top podcasts and audio on demand in the market. Continue Reading
The European Union Intellectual Property Office has released a new report on trends in digital consumption and piracy. The assessment found that overall music is the digital content most commonly accessed by people ages 15-24, with 97% streaming or downloading music. Continue Reading
eMarketer analyst Eric Haggstrom shared some recent forecasts for Pandora. He noted that U.S. mobile ad revenue for Pandora is on the rise, and is growing faster than eMarketer had previously predicted. Continue Reading
Integr8 Research has released a series of blog posts highlighting research into the habits of Spotify listeners, and how they relate to trends seen in broadcast radio. The company analyzed the top 200 tracks on the Spotify charts in the U.S. each week from the beginning of 2019 through August 1. Continue Reading
Germany has been one of the slower markets to transition to streaming music, and a new study found that the trends toward new technology is continuing to gradually rise. A study conducted by the University of Hamburg for a collection of music industry bodies found that about a quarter of German listeners are paying for a music streaming service. Continue Reading