Category: Podcasts
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Edison Research Top 25 Podcasts in the UK: Q3 2025
Edison Research has released its latest UK podcast rankings for Q3 2025. A reminder that this survey is conducted amongst at least 2,000 weekly podcast listeners each quarter, and they are counted regardless of which platform they listen (or watch) podcasts on. The methodology is the same as that used in the US, where they…
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Spotify, The Ringer, Netflix and YouTube
I am intrigued by the recent announcement from Spotify that a range of their podcasts from The Ringer (which is owned by Spotify) will be coming to Netflix. In recent years, The Ringer has leant heavily into video for their titles. And now, complete episodes will air exclusively on Netflix – in the US initially.…
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Edison Research Top 25 Podcasts in the UK: Q2 2025
Last week, Edison Research published their latest list of the Top 25 podcasts in the UK for Q2 2025. This is the most visible chart of which podcasts are being listened to, since the charts from providers like Apple and Spotify aren’t true charts for the whole industry, and tend to be tweaked for newness…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…