2024 Archives

Radio listening in UK hits 20-year high

22/08/2024

Radio listening in UK hits 20-year high according to a recent report by Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator. Their annual report – Media Nations 2024: UK covers all aspects of TV, video and music streaming, radio and podcasts. The first quarter of 2024 saw the highest number of weekly radio listeners across all devices in the past twenty years with an average of 49.9 million adults (88.6%) listening each week, passing the previous high of […]

Podcast listening hits all-time high in US

14/04/2024

Podcast listening hits all-time high in US up 12% year on year according to The Infinite Dial 2024. The Infinite Dial is produced by Edison Research with support from Audacy, Cumulus Media, and SiriusXM Media and is America’s longest-running survey of digital media consumer behaviour in the US, published annually since 1998. It provides survey data on a number of important media channels, including streaming audio, podcasting, and social media from a representative sample of the US […]

World Radio Day 2024

13/02/2024

Today, the 13th February is UNESCO’s World Radio Day which this year celebrates’ Radio: A century informing, entertaining and educating’. Proclaimed in 2011 by the member states of UNESCO it was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 as a UN International Day and the 13th February became World Radio Day (WRD). On 13th May 1897, Guglielmo Marconi sent the world’s first radio message across open water but it took until 1906 for […]