Category: Audio

  • Ofcom Podcast Survey and Audio Report 2025

    Ofcom Podcast Survey and Audio Report 2025

    Ofcom has just published it’s annual Podcast Survey for 2025, alongside its wider Audio Survey. Regular readers of this blog will know that Ofcom has been publishing this data for several years now, and I’ve always been keen to dig into the data here. This year, the release has coincided with The Podcast Show where…

  • Edison Research Top 25 Podcasts in the UK: Q1 2025

    Edison Research Top 25 Podcasts in the UK: Q1 2025

    On the eve of The Podcast Show in London (Note: I’ll be speaking! Come see me at 14:10 on Wednesday on the Talking Podcasts 1 Stage), Edison Research has just published its new Top 25 list for UK podcasts. A reminder that this data is based on a survey of at least 2,000 weekly podcast…

  • RAJAR Q1 2025

    RAJAR Q1 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…

  • RAJAR MIDAS Report – Winter 2024

    RAJAR MIDAS Report – Winter 2024

    RAJAR has published its Winter 2024 MIDAS report, with fieldwork carried out over two weeks of November/December 2024 sampling 1668 former RAJAR respondents aged 15+. They each completed a 7-day online diary recording their listening habits. Most of the measures show no real changes since the Summer 2024 release. But podcast listening has risen from…

  • Edison Research Top 25 Podcasts in the UK: Q4 2024

    Edison Research Top 25 Podcasts in the UK: Q4 2024

    Edison Research has just published its Q4 2024 list of the top podcast titles in the UK. A reminder that this data is based on a survey of at least 2,000 weekly podcast listeners in the UK using the same methodology that it employs for its US survey. And the survey is based on recall,…

  • RAJAR Q4 2024

    RAJAR Q4 2024

    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…

  • Edison Podcast Metrics UK Q3 2023

    Edison Podcast Metrics UK Q3 2023

    The latest Edison Podcast Metrics UK have just been published for Q3 2023. What has changed? Well Joe Rogan still tops the charts, while The Rest Is Politics climbs to number two pushing The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett down to number three (not number 90). Edison Research notes the following: Edison Podcast…

  • More UK Podcast Charts

    More UK Podcast Charts

    NOTE: I’ve added a significant update below (22/11/24) You know that I love a list! Well over the past few days, a couple more podcast charts for the UK have emerged. First, Podtrac has released its October 2024 chart for the UK and a number of other countries. I dug deeper into Podtrac’s first chart…

  • More on Podtrac: Australia

    More on Podtrac: Australia

    This is a follow-up to a piece I just published which looked at the newly launched Podtrac ranker for the UK and compared it with Edison Research’s equivalent ranker. Even allowing for the variability of these kinds of things with different methodologies, there were some profoundly questionable results. And to be clear, recall surveys like…

  • A New UK Podcast Ranker

    A New UK Podcast Ranker

    Last week Podtrac announced the availability of its podcast tracker in 30 countries including the UK. Podtrac has for a while been publishing US figures including a list of Top Podcast and Top Publishers, but this is an opt-in methodology. In other words, the publishers that appear on those lists have chosen to let Podtrac…

  • RAJAR Q3 2024

    RAJAR Q3 2024

    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…

  • The Podcast Listener Landscape – Acast/Nielsen

    The Podcast Listener Landscape – Acast/Nielsen

    Acast has just published some research carried out by Nielsen in the UK based on podcast listening, called The Podcast Listener Landscape. The research dives into the role of podcasting in UK media, how people engage with podcasts and what listeners attitudes are towards podcasts. The full report is available on request from Acast. According…