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Podcast listening hits all-time high in US

14/04/2024

Podcast listening hits all-time high in US up 12% year on year according to The Infinite Dial 2024. The Infinite Dial is produced by Edison Research with support from Audacy, Cumulus Media, and SiriusXM Media and is America’s longest-running survey of digital media consumer behaviour in the US, published annually since 1998. It provides survey data on a number of important media channels, including streaming audio, podcasting, and social media from a representative sample of the US […]

Radio Paradise adds a podcast channel

08/03/2024

Radio Paradise has added a podcast channel called Radio 2050 which started in January 2024 and now has 24 episodes all of which are available in lossless FLAC. According to the station the channel is about “Our Future. Radio 2050 is a flow of music and conversation – exploring ideas, new perspectives and boots-on-the-ground efforts for a better future in the year 2050 and beyond. Be inspired.” Launched with 8 episodes, the aim of the […]

Apple introduces transcripts for Apple Podcasts

08/03/2024

Apple introduces transcripts for Apple Podcasts which provide a full-text display for each episode and is available for English, French, Spanish and German language podcasts. With transcripts, users can read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or phrase, and tap on the text to play the podcast from that point in the episode. As an episode plays, each word is highlighted, making it easy to follow along. Users will […]

Top 50 US podcasts for Q4 2023

16/02/2024

The Top 50 US podcasts for Q4 2023 chart according to Edison Podcast Metrics has been published by Edison Research. Edison Podcast Metrics is the only podcast measurement service that measures the relative audience size and demographics of all podcast networks in the US. The Edison Podcast Metrics Top 50 Podcasts of Q4 2023 list is derived from data collected from 9th October 2023 to 23rd December 2023 December 23, 2023 and is based on surveys of 5,356 weekly podcast […]

40.3% of Americans listen to podcasts regularly

31/01/2024

40.3% of Americans listen to podcasts regularly with a 12% growth in the number of listeners in the past 2 years according to Triton Digital. Triton Digital’s U.S. Year-End Podcast Report provides key insights into the growing US podcast landscape over the course of 2023. Key findings from the U.S. Year-End Podcast Report The number of monthly podcast listeners in the US has increased by 12% in the past 2 years. 40.3% of the US population are monthly […]

Spotify’s Gen Z users streamed 560 Bn songs in first half of 2023

23/10/2023

Spotify’s Gen Z users streamed 560 Bn songs in first half of 2023 according to Spotify’s annual Gen Z trend report – Culture Next Volume 05. The report based on an international survey of Gen Z (15-24) Spotify users as well as their Millennial (25-40) counterparts in June 2023. In the first half of 2023, Gen Z listened to over 560 Bn songs and more than 3 Bn podcast episodes — a 76% increase over […]

RTL+ gets entertainment upgrade

10/08/2023

RTL+ gets entertainment upgrade making it an all-inclusive multimedia app with Deezer continuing to provide it with music streaming. The new service from RTL Germany will include TV series, reality TV, live sports, films, music, audio books and podcasts. The package includes over 55,000 hours of video and TV entertainment, over 120 million music titles, more than 100,000 audio books and radio plays from top publishers and authors, as well as several thousand podcast formats, […]