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The Four Worst Things About FIFA’s TV Coverage of the World Cup
The 2026 World Cup has been pretty decent as a football tournament. I’ll leave aside the politics of the US, Trump and FIFA. The TV coverage has been mostly excellent too, even if during the first semi-final, we got a good look at the Sony mirrorless camera settings that FIFA is using for some of…
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Ofcom Podcast Survey and Audio Report 2026
Sorry – this year’s version of this summary is a little late coming out! At this year’s Podcast Show in London, Ofcom launched the results of their 2026 Podcast Survey and Audio Report. Once again Mark Pearson, Senior Analyst at Ofcom presented some of the findings in a session at The Podcast Show alongside Francesca…
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US TV Rights for 2030 and 2034 Men’s FIFA World Cups
If there’s one story in the US media that is coming out of this World Cup, it’s that Fox and the Spanish language Telemundo are having an absolute field day with the enormous ratings they’re generating, even though all the host countries were out by the round of 16. More than 50m people watched USA…
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Merger Talk
In the last few hours, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lisa Nandy has said that she is “minded” to intervene on public interest grounds in the Paramount acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery (WBD). This is potentially a major hurdle in the deal which has been passed in the US. But I…
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Are Podcasts on Netflix Working?
As mentioned in Podnews today, there have been a few stories about whether podcasts on Netflix are actually doing the business for the streamer. This is a subject that I’m very interested in, and covered a little in my recent Signals in the Static presentation at The Podcast Show. In essence, my argument was that…
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Edison Research Top 25 Podcasts in the UK: Q1 2026
Edison Research at SSRS has just published its Q1 2026 Top 25 podcasts in the UK, from Edison Podcast Metrics. This is their regular quarterly survey of UK podcast listeners. A reminder that this chart is based on at least 2,000 weekly podcast consumers in the UK. Respondent data is collated throughout the full quarter…
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Signals in the Static from The Podcast Show 2026
This year was the fifth edition of The Podcast Show in London, and I have been to all of them. In fact, I have spoken at three of them, including this year when the subject of my talk was Signals in the Static: A Data-Driven Guide to the Podcast Landscape. The objective of the talk…
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RAJAR Q1 2026
This post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the many years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details on the product, contact Deryck Pritchard via…
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Edison Research Top 25 UK Podcasts – Q4 2025
Edison Research has just published their Top 25 Podcasts in the UK for Q4 2025. As ever, this chart is based on recall from 2,000 online interviews with weekly podcast listeners in the UK. As ever, I’m going to take the long view on this and show how the chart has changed over time. This…
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RAJAR “MIDAS” Winter 2025
A couple of weeks after the regular RAJAR release, and we now have the most recent MIDAS release from RAJAR. First, a reminder that this uses a different methodology to the regular RAJAR release, based on a sample of 1,538 former RAJAR diarists who completed a 7-day online diary. 96% of the population consume some…
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Apple Enters the Video Podcast Fray
Apple is getting into the video podcasting action announcing support of video podcasts within the Apple Podcasts app. Since Apple Podcasts is the #1, #2 or #3 podcast app in the world, depending on where you live, which data to believe, and how you actually count podcast consumption, that’s a big deal. The technicalities are…
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RAJAR Q4 2025
This post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the many years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details on the product, contact Deryck Pritchard via…
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Streaming Most, But Not All Episodes
I’ve just enjoyed watching the second series of The Night Manager, which [spoiler alert] features in its cast, Hugh Laurie. And that made me want to go back and watch House, Laurie’s hit US hospital drama that shares a sprinkling of DNA with Sherlock Holmes. The series aired originally on Channel 5 in the UK,…
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