Recently, Triton Digital released their 2022 U.S. Podcast Report, and it’s chock full of tasty data and overall positive news for podcasting. The top headline is that overall downloads are up 20% over 2021. Moreover, the average listener downloaded 1.1 more hours of content a week, too. The report also reveals some very strategic demographic […]
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I vividly remember when Bryan Barletta first pitched me his idea for Sounds Profitable. It was August 2020, and I was heading up podcast research at Stitcher, just a couple months before the company was acquired by SiriusXM. Being the height of the pandemic, of course we were on a Zoom call, but I barely
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I am very excited to join the Signal Hill Insights team, especially right now. I think there is some vital work to do in support of growing podcasting, and Signal Hill is in a central position to do this. I cannot overstate the importance of independent third-party research in the development of any media platform.
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Being a researcher is always most rewarding when we get to collaborate with smart people who want to learn something—not just checking off the research box, but really getting to some kind of truth. This happened most recently in a brief research survey that came about in a rather out-of-the-box way. The study was a
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It’s been a crazy and a challenging year for audio. Dampened by recession fears, radio revenues have been slow to return as we emerge from the pandemic. Podcast ad dollars are still growing, yet the need for some podcast companies to scale back their grand ambitions has led to some layoffs. One of the fortunate
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‘Got milk?’ may be the most iconic marketing campaign of all time. For 25 years through 2018, Annie Leibovitz took 180 photos of celebrities from Dennis Rodman to Taylor Swift to Kermit the Frog to Bill Clinton and Robert Dole, all proudly sporting a milk mustache. The campaign stood out for a number of reasons,
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Did the pandemic slow down the growth of podcast listening? Or is podcast listening dropping as everyone goes back to everyday life? The answer to both questions is a clear no, based on what we see from early results from The Canadian Podcast Listener 2022. Gains in podcast listening during the pandemic are holding and
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To repeat ads, or not to repeat ads. That is the question that has been making the rounds of the podcast advertising blogosphere the last couple of months. In early July, Pierre Bouvard of Cumulus Media posted a blog citing what was at the time the most recent Podsights Benchmark Report showing that podcast ad
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We recently lifted the hood of our podcast content research to get a better idea of what is the most important thing you need to do to make your podcast so appealing it brings listeners back for more. As you know, when you’re competing with millions of podcasts, standing out is more than just getting your podcast a single download.
Digging Deeper: Making Your Podcast more Entertaining Read More »
Whether you agree that podcasts have a ‘discovery problem’ or not, there’s no doubt that the big players in the space are spending a lot of time, money and inventory to promote their shows and stand out from the (literally) millions of competing podcasts out there. The truth of the matter is all the promotion
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