Here in April, as the second quarter lurches forward, it’s supposed to be Spring in my Pacific Northwest home, even as I stare out the window desperately hoping for a glimpse of blue sky and sun. Nevertheless, despite a dark and dreary winter for many of us in the northern hemisphere, looking back at the […]
4 Bright Signs for Podcasting from 2023’s First Quarter Read More »
A decade ago, one year before the launch of Serial, you could be forgiven for thinking podcasting was destined to be another casualty along what we used to call the “information superhighway.” Monthly podcast listening had stalled at 12% among Americans aged 12+ in the Edison Research Infinite Dial – down 2 points from 2012.
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Attention. That’s really what podcasters are asking of their audiences, and therefore that’s what advertisers are buying on podcasts. It’s also why a recent blog post from Dan Misener, co-founder of the podcast growth agency Bumper, got, uh, a lot of attention from the industry. Dan proposes a method to help podcasters to “[m]easure attention,
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One of the most under-reported data points about podcasting is the popularity of news podcasts. Lost amid all the stories about Joe Rogan and true crime podcasts is the fact that a whole lot of people get their news from podcasts. The question is, why? And, more importantly, in today’s news-saturated media environment, what makes
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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
Digging the Demos in Triton’s 2022 U.S. Podcast Report Read More »
Over the last few months, the tone of a few widely circulated articles about podcasting have taken something of an abrupt turn. Unbridled optimism has been replaced by headlines projecting a rocky road ahead for podcasting or even a sense that podcasting’s best days were somehow behind us. It’s time to put the stories and
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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
A Partnership that Sounds Profitable for the Podcast Industry Read More »
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
Does Podcasting Really Need Blockbusters? Read More »
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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