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Podcast listening by US Latinos is booming

14/10/2024

Podcast listening by US Latinos is booming with over a third more time spent than the non-Latino population according to a recent report by Edison Research. According to their Share of Ear research, persons 13 or older who identify as Hispanic or Latino spend an average of nearly five hours listening to audio each day, while the non-Latino population consumes 3 hours and 55 minutes — more than a one-hour difference. In 2014, podcasting was just […]

BBC Sounds continues to grow in Q2 2024

08/10/2024

BBC Sounds continues to grow in Q2 2024 with 608 million plays of all content across radio, podcasts and music mixes, an increase of almost 5% from the same period last year. Data shows there was a weekly audience average of 4.88 million with a peak of 5 million weekly users. The RAJAR figures for the same period show that podcast listening is at an all-time high with 12.3 million people in the UK (15+) […]

Top 50 US podcasts for Q2 2024

22/08/2024

The Top 50 US podcasts for Q2 2024 chart according to Edison Podcast Metrics has been published by Edison Research. Edison Podcast Metrics is the only podcast measurement service that measures the relative audience size and demographics of all podcast networks in the US. The Edison Podcast Metrics Top 50 Podcasts of Q2 2024 list is derived from data collected continuously during the second quarter of 2024, interviewing 5,206 weekly podcast consumers ages 13 and older in the US. The […]

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 among UK adults hits all time high

27/06/2024

Podcast listening among UK adults hits all time high with listeners spending an average of five and a half hours per week according to The UK Podcast Consumer 2024 report produced by Edison Research. The UK Podcast Consumer 2024 includes data from Edison Podcast Metrics UK. Edison Podcast Metrics UK is the only all-inclusive measurement of weekly reach of podcasts in the UK. Launched in the UK in the third quarter of 2023, Edison Research […]

BBC Sounds got over 5 million weekly users in Q1 2024

24/06/2024

BBC Sounds got over 5 million weekly users in Q1 2024 with a weekly audience of 4.97 million users across the app, website and voice activated devices, and for the first time, a peak of 5.1m. The RAJAR figures for the same period highlight how audiences value BBC Radio with 31.3m people tuning in each week for live output across the stations, with a share of 43.4% of all radio listening in the UK. Podcast […]

The Top Podcast Genres in the US Q1 2024

18/06/2024

The Top Podcast Genres in the US Q1 2024 chart according to Edison Podcast Metrics has been published by Edison Research. Edison Podcast Metrics is the only podcast measurement service that measures the relative audience size and demographics of all podcast networks in the US. The Edison Podcast Metrics Top Podcast Genres in the US Q1 2024 list is derived from data collected continuously from weekly podcast consumers ages 13 and older in the US during the first quarter of […]