According to the new Techsurvey 2021 from Jacobs Media 29% of P1 radio users listen to podcasts weekly or daily. That nearly matches the U.S. national number measured by Edison Research and Triton Digital. Are the radio-associated podcast listeners taking that time away from AM/FM listening? Continue Reading
Montreal-based global media/entertainment company Stingray has chosen Triton Digital’s Omny Studio unit to create, publish, and promote Stingray podcasts. Stingray is a giant music, media, and technology firm with offices around the world. Continue Reading
iHeartPodcast Network Australia, which is operated by radio/audio network ARN, has renewed its commercial partnership with podcast company Audioboom, re-upping the arrangement for two years. At the same time, the two companies dominate the Australian Podcast Report. Continue Reading
Masima Radio, the largest radio network in Indonesia with 18 stations, has selected Triton Digital for the delivery, monetization, and measurement of its streaming audio and podcast content. Continue Reading
Triton Digital has expanded its well-known and often consulted Streaming Metrics rankers, adding a Netherlands-specific product. The new addition is launched with reports for January and February. The new Netherlands product is more complicated than the familiar U.S. reports. Continue Reading
Triton Digital’s Streaming Metrics monthly ranker of measured streaming entities is out for January streaming, and shows iHeartRadio in its newly established leading position, but with a dip over the past two months. NPR, meanwhile, approached 100,000 Average Active Sessions (AAS), Triton’s measurement of average simultaneous streams. Click through for the chart. Continue Reading
Most podcast rankers illuminate the concentration and stability of success — in other words, they don’t change much. Triton Digital’s every-four-weeks list of ranked 100 shows provides more oxygen, enabling rising shows to breathe in the exposure. In the latest, eight new shows appear, five of them from Kast Media. Continue Reading
Omny Studio released a raft of interesting data illustrating a truism of media: Success is concentrated at the top. How many downloads does it take to be in the 1%? Or the top 50%? Click through for graphs. Continue Reading
The annual webinar release of The Infinite Dial, the annual consumer survey project by Edison Research and Triton Digital, is scheduled for Thursday. The two companies are teasing the event by releasing one result of interest: Thirty-three percent of Americans own a smart speaker. That is a 22% increase from last year’s Infinite Dial, and represents an estimated 94-million people. There is a Covid element to this. Click through for more info and webinar registration. Continue Reading
Two questions about digital audio programmatic advertising were addressed in Triton Digital’s presentation at the RAIN Podcast Business Summit yesterday: 1. Is programmatic advertising a “race to the bottom” in ad revenue? 2. What are actual CPM rates in podcasting? Triton SVP Stephanie Donovan answered both with a view of average CPM rates for podcast programmatic advertising. Continue Reading
Triton Digital is announcing that its measurement of French-language digital audio streams has been certified by the France-based Alliance for Press and Media Figures (ACPM) association, whose mission is to provide industry-standard measures to certify the audiences of any media that seeks to attract advertisers, including digital radio, websites, applications, podcasts. Continue Reading
Triton Digital’s Webcast Metrics monthly ranker of measured streaming entities turned a corner in the November data, at least for the time being. “Pandora reevaluates their third-party data partnerships as part of an ongoing process, and are not currently measured by Triton’s Webcast Metrics,” Triton informs RAIN. The sudden absence of Pandora’s supremacy in the chart, which RAIN has been caretaking since September 2009, creates room below for streaming radio to differentiate its groups. Click through for details, history, and charts. Continue Reading