Three of Spotify’s top five podcasts of the summer are exclusives to the platform. The other two are also top entries in Apple’s chart and Edison Research’s consumer survey. Continue Reading
Triton Digital has released its Australian Podcast Ranker for July. “Hamish & Andy” is in the top spot — a weekly podcast. Australian media group ARN is the top publisher for July. Click for details. Continue Reading
Edison releases the U.S. Top 50 Podcasts for the full year span of Q3-2020 through Q2-2021. It is characterized by the same level of stability shown in all rankers — eight of the top 10 shows are identical to the full-year 2020 list from Edison. But as a consumer research project, Edison’s ranker has much more reach than server-side client measurement such as Podtrac’s monthly rankers. “The Joe Rogan Experience” lands in the #1 spot … again. Continue Reading
Triton Digital has released its consolidated Streaming Rankers for June, covering the U.S., LATAM (Latin America), EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), and the Global report. Click for details and the download link. Continue Reading
In its quarterly report of smart speaker shipments, London-based research company Omdia reports that Google took the top spot from Amazon in the U.S. And interestingly, Apple’s HomePod increased its shipments from a year ago at a surprising rate. Click through for the chart. Continue Reading
In its quarterly survey of podcast listening, Media Monitors determined that iHeartRadio and NPR were the top two podcast publishers in Q2, as in Q1, based on the number of network-owned podcasts cited by survey respondents. Our comparison of the Q1-Q2 results shows much sameness in top networks. Continue Reading
Triton Digital released its latest U.S. Podcast Report, a four-week measurement. In the Top 15 Networks portion, Average Weekly Downloads dropped 11% from the previous four-week period. That doesn’t necessarily mean a drop in listening. Click for details and the list. Continue Reading
Over one-third of Australians 12 years and older own a smart speaker. And Google is the dominant operating system, with 24% of Australians owning a Google device, and only 3% owning an Amazon speaker. These metrics from The Smart Audio Report Australia, from Edison Research, CRA, and TalkVia. Click for much more and graphics. Continue Reading
Podtrac has released the June edition of its two monthly rankers: Top Podcasts and Top Podcast Publishers. Regular followers of these lists can probably recite the top three in each. Stability reigns both in the podcast and publishers list, and also in the overall measurements. Click for details and the lists. Continue Reading
Listening on the go, or when alone, or on weekends, or weeknights — how do different audio content types draw listeners? That’s one question examined by the Audacy Insights blog, in a piece authored by Idil Cakim, SVP Research & Insights. Click through for interesting metrics andc charts. Continue Reading
If podcast rankers reveal stagnation at the top levels of popularity (they do), Magellan AI’s monthly ranking of top advertisers shows the same characteristic. Looking at the just-released list of top 15 spenders in May, and comparing it to April, we see the same top five advertisers: BetterHelp, HelloFresh, ZipRecruiter, Amazon, and Geico. Click through for comparison chart. Continue Reading
Edison Research has released a research nibble from the company’s ongoing Share of Ear consumer research, as it does from time to time. This one is a measure of Americans’ keenness to pay for audio via subscription. That number has more than doubled since 2015. Click for details and a prediction. Continue Reading