Tag: podcasts

  • 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…

  • RAJAR MIDAS Report – Summer 2024

    RAJAR MIDAS Report – Summer 2024

    [UPDATE – 2 October: After I asked a question about the Need States chart, RAJAR published a revised version of the Podcast chart, and this is now included below.] RAJAR has just published a summary of its Summer 2024 MIDAS report. The research was carried out amongst 2,048 previous RAJAR respondents across two weeks in…

  • Testing Google’s NotebookLM with RAJAR

    Testing Google’s NotebookLM with RAJAR

    Google has a recent-ish AI tool called NotebookLM. The idea is that you throw a lot of information into it, and it can sift through it, answer questions based on what you’ve told it and so on. Recently they added the ability to auto-generate a podcast! So I decided to test it. I gave it…

  • Edison Podcast Metrics UK – Top 25 Q2 2024

    Edison Podcast Metrics UK – Top 25 Q2 2024

    The latest Edison Research Podcast Metrics for the UK has just been published with a top 25 based on reach during Q2 2024 This follows previous releases for Q1 2024, Q4 2024, Q3 2024 and Q2 2024. The top four podcast remain the same and in the same order this quarter. Then we get a certain amount of re-shuffling…

  • Episode Artwork vs Show Artwork on Podcasts

    Episode Artwork vs Show Artwork on Podcasts

    In recent weeks and months, a lot of major podcasts have belatedly started adding “Episode Artwork” to their titles. Podcasts have long had artwork of course – a square shaped image that is used to accompany the title of a podcast and is seen in most podcast apps. This is what Apple refers to as…

  • The UK Podcast Consumer 2024 – Edison Research

    The UK Podcast Consumer 2024 – Edison Research

    Earlier today, Edison Research held a webinar releasing the results of their 2024 UK Podcast Consumer research. This builds on some of the findings that they have already released as part of their Edison Podcast Metrics reports. Gabriel Soto, Senior Director of Research at Edison Research, presented the findings, which Edison has made available on…

  • RAJAR MIDAS Report – Spring 2024

    RAJAR MIDAS Report – Spring 2024

    RAJAR has just released a summary of its latest MIDAS report for Spring 2024. The fieldwork was carried out in April 2024 amongst 2,143 former RAJAR respondents aged 15+ who were asked to complete a 7-day audio diary. The report compares all forms of listening: live radio, catch-up radio, podcasts, on-demand music service (e.g. Spotify),…

  • Edison Podcast Metrics UK – Top 25 Q1 2024

    Edison Podcast Metrics UK – Top 25 Q1 2024

    The latest Edison Research Podcast Metrics for the UK have just been published with a top 25 based on reach during Q1 2024. This follows previous releases for Q4 2024, Q3 2024 and Q2 2024. Here’s the full chart: The top four titles are unchanged compared to last quarter. But here’s the list again with…

  • The Podcast Show 2024

    The Podcast Show 2024

    The 2024 edition of The Podcast Show in London has just wrapped up, and I thought it was worth jotting down some thoughts, some things I learned, and some themes that seemed prevalent this year. I should add the proviso that there were lots of sessions taking place at any given time – perhaps 8-10…