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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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Radio Times – Boxing Day 2025
It’s my final selection of choices during the festive season from the double issue of the Radio Times. In truth, I’m not sure that anyone has really pulled the stops out for Christmas this year, perhaps saving their best stuff for New Year’s Day. Alternatively, the channels have decided that we’ll all be watching Stranger…
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Radio Times – Christmas Day 2025
Another year, another look at the Christmas double issue of The Radio Times to see what’s worth watching (and what’s not). As usual, click through to see the fullsize versions of the images if you can’t read them. Previous versions can be found here. Come back tomorrow for a look at Boxing Day.
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Radio Times – Christmas Eve 2025
It’s the end of 2025, and I’m back again for another of my annual annotated look at the festive line-up of television and radio. I’ve been doing this since around 2009… I’m not sure that this year’s line-up is necessarily the most exciting, and the advent of streaming means that even something scheduled for BBC1…
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Media Mergers/Takeovers
There are three different media mergers or takeovers happening right now that could seismically upset the existing media ecosystem to a greater or lesser extent. These are: While each of these three is different, in scale, and importance, whether they go ahead seems to me to rest on how you define the markets they operate…
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Spotify’s Top 50 UK Podcasts
Spotify Unwrapped is the company’s big promotional push at the end of each year, which dutifully allows listeners across the world to share their listening habits from the previous year (well – 11 months). As well as providing listeners with their own personal lists, Spotify also publishes a lot of cumulative data. Here’s what Spotify…
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