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
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
— New Stacks (JSoundstack)
— A New Realm (Realm)
— Record Duo (Nielsen and Edison Research) Continue Reading
Nielsen has released its 2023 Consumer Survey Report. This is a consumer sentiment study which stretches across disparate aspects of life — inflation, social media, audio listening, and more. Podcasting is highlighted early in the 28-page report, identified by consumers as the media consumption category likely to grow the most in their personal listening during the next 6-12 months. Click for detail and graphs. Continue Reading
We learn from Inside Radio and The Wall Street Journal that Nielsen has changed leadership. David Kenny steps down from the CEO chair, and veteran Nielsen exec Karthik Tao takes over. Kenny remains involved as executive chairman. Continue Reading
The latest Podcasting Today report from Nielsen leverages the company’s Scarborough Podcast Buying Power resources to create Nielsen Podcast today 2023. In it, Nielsen tells a relentless story of growth: More listeners, more time spent, more podcasts consumed. Click for metrics, charts, and a download link. Continue Reading
In Nielsen’s recently released Audio Today 2023 bundle of research, we are not surprised to learn that AM/FM listening remains top of the time-spent audio sources. Among all U.S. adults 18 years and older, radio reaches 91% percent. The domination is decisive. Click for graphs. Continue Reading
In the month of July, according to Nielsen, in the U.S., streaming channels accounted for 34.8% of all views, for the first time edging ahead of cable TV, which had a 34.4% share of viewing. Meanwhile, broadcast TV was trailing… Continue Reading
Using recent data from Podsights, Edison Research, and Nielsen, Westwood One exec Pierre Bouvard has issued a new report making a case for podcast advertisers to spread their ad buys across a greater number of podcasts to increase their campaign… Continue Reading
The title of this piece over generalizes about Covid, but a newly released “Podcasting Today; Insight for Advertisers” study from Nielsen makes the broad point: Podcast listeners say they resuming pre-Covid activities that include purchases of products and services, and that is clearly good for podcast advertisers. Click for some stats and graphs. Continue Reading
Podcast listeners are doubling down: Over half of them spent more time listening over the past six months than previously — that metric courtesy of research conducted by Nielsen in partnership with global podcast company Acast for this week’s Adweek in NYC. That 52% is favorable compared to the results for other audio categories. Click through for key findings. Continue Reading
New information released from Nielsen’s ongoing Podcast Listening Buying Power survey shows that podcast listeners are twice as likely to use food delivery services, according to a research bulletin sent to RAIN. Food delivery is broken out to three types: Restaurant delivery, meal kits, and grocery delivery. Click through for details and infographics. Continue Reading