Edison Research unleashes another of its recurring podcast studies this week, coordinated with The Podcast Show in London. Top 25 Podcasts in the UK details the most popular shows in Q1. Plus — RAIN’s comparison to previous results of this research focus. Continue Reading
In the latest release of its iconic The Infinite Dial UK survey report, presented at this week’s The Podcast Show in London, Edison Research reports that UK consumers embrace smart devices in-home and in-car. Continue Reading
In the newly released Q1 edition of The Record — the quarterly series measuring how consumers spend their listening day with ad-supported online audio — we learn that radio rules the time spent metric, especially in older demos. Click for details, charts. Continue Reading
YouTube has launched and announced a podcast popularity chart, awkwardly named “Weekly Top Podcast Shows: Most popular podcast shows on YouTube.” The date range for this debut weekly chart is May 5-11, establishing a reporting cadence with a one-week lag. We examine and compare this ranker to recent Edison Research data on podcast popularity. Continue Reading
The Joe Rogan Experience is predictably and regularly the top-ranked podcast in measurement studies which include all podcast platforms. Edison Research conducts one such survey, resulting in the Top 50 Podcasts In The U.S. This release represents a survey conducted in Q1, and results in a ranking of the top 50 podcasts. Click for details.
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The News/Talk format on U.S. radio received the largest share of time spent listening in the expansive 18+ age group. That finding from a new report released by Nielsen and Edison Research. Click for more. Continue Reading
In a notably exacting survey goal, Edison Research queried U.S. survey subjects about which platforms they recalled using to hear discussions about the recent U.S. presidential election. Continue Reading
Edison Research has unleashed the 2024 edition of its Latino Podcast Listener Report, the output of 2,502 interviews with US Hispanic/Latino adults 18 and older. The bilingual fieldwork was conducted in November; these are fresh findings. Click for plenty of detail, graphics, and a link to the source. Continue Reading
— Following TheMoney (Sort Of) (Milly Botes)
— Benchmark Survey; New Questions (Jacobs Media)
— Shade (Ari Herstand) Continue Reading
— A New Deal (Acast)
–The Tops (Edison Research)
— Keys, Shifts, and Trends (MIDiA Research) Continue Reading
In a lovely turnaround, it turns out that the venerable True Crime podcast category helps solve the crimes it documents. We learn this in a new study from Edison Research and podcast network audiochuck. Audiochuck publishes one of genre’s most recognized titles, Crime Junkie. In an unusual angle in podcast research, the company evangelizes the podcast’s social values, not its benefit to advertisers. Continue Reading
Nielsen has released information about U.S. audio listening habits in Q2 of this year. The research is informed by the ongoing Share of Ear project at Edison Research, and directed to radio media buyers. Click for data and the key takeaway. Continue Reading