Podcasting

Podcasting’s Evolution Takes On SXSW: Six Takeaways from Podcast Movement Evolutions

/ Audio Update, Podcasting
Podcast Movement 2026

For the first time, Podcast Movement Evolutions landed alongside SXSW in Austin—an alignment that felt less like a scheduling coincidence and more like a signal (pun intended) of where the industry is headed. Our CEO, Paul Riismandel, and VP of Research, Matt Hird, were on the ground across all three days, tracking the conversations that […]

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Apple’s Video Podcast Impact: What the Audience Data Says

/ Audience Research, Audio Update, Podcasting, Video Podcasting
Apple video podcast

After a brief period in which “video podcasts versus audio podcasts” was not the main news story in the podcast industry space, Apple has reinvigorated the discussion by introducing a new method for viewing video podcasts. The HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) method certainly sounds like an improvement over previous methods of watching video in Apple

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Brand Lift Is the Incrementality Measure Brands Are Looking For

/ Audio Update, Brand Lift Study, Branded Podcasts, Podcasting
incremental brand measurement

It’s table stakes to measure the outcome of an ad campaign. How did it shift awareness and perception of a brand? What actions, like a click or purchase, did it drive?  But how do we isolate a campaign’s outcomes, with confidence? No attribution signal or metric is ever 100% deterministic. That is, while we can

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ATTN Ad Buyers and Ad Planners: Strategically Improve Your Podcast Genre Targeting

/ Audience Research, Audio Update, Podcasting
podcast genre target

During my days working in a podcast ad sales organization it seemed that we were always on the lookout to sign specific genres of shows based upon advertiser demand. Business and Health & Fitness are two that particularly come to mind, because there was constantly a limited supply of inventory but a surplus of B2B

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The Surprising Group of Podcast Consumers Comprising the New “Age of Acquisition” for Advertisers

/ Audience Research, Audio Update, Podcasting
podcast consumers

Brands are obsessed with youth. Much of this can be attributed to wanting to leverage the “age of acquisition.” Borrowing from cognitive science, the idea is that when a brand is encountered early in life it’s more likely to be vividly remembered. There’s thought to be a “window of loyalty” – roughly ages 12 to

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Guidance for 2026 on Video Podcasts, Promotion and Advertising from the Canadian Podcast Listener

/ Audio Update, Canadian Podcast Listeners, Podcasting
2026 Canadian podcast listener trends

Happy New Year! As we closed out 2025, Jeff Ulster of Ulster Media and I started making the rounds presenting the results of The Canadian Podcast Listener 2025 to our sponsors and subscribers. It’s always encouraging to see how eagerly this report is anticipated each year, and the variety of questions we get during the

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Three Podcasting Trends We See from Surveying 66,000 Podcast Consumers in 2025

/ Audio Update, Brand Lift Study, Podcasting
podcast trends

In 2025 the Signal Hill Insights team surveyed nine times more video podcast consumers for brand lift studies than in 2024. That’s just one of many changes we observed this past year. Overall we surveyed 29% more media consumers than the previous year, hitting 86,000 in total. The vast majority, 66,000, were monthly podcast consumers,

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Are Podcasters and Listeners Missing the Advantages of Audio?

/ Audience Research, Audio Update, Podcasting
podcast audio advantages

Dear Podcaster, when was the last time you reminded your audience they can listen to just the audio of your show? For anyone who’s been in podcasting for more than five years this sounds like an absurd question. But it’s not 2020 anymore, and it’s become abundantly clear that consumers no longer think of podcasts

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Four Ways Brand Lift Can Secure Ad Campaign Renewals

/ Audio Update, Brand Lift Study, Podcasting
podcast ad renewal

Ad effectiveness research, like brand lift, should pay for itself. As a dyed-in-the-wool researcher I find enormous intrinsic value in research, but application is where research comes alive. It’s also how the bills get paid. Brand lift ad effectiveness pays for itself in two big ways.  First, brand lift helps podcasts and networks secure campaign

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Podcasting at Advertising Week 2025: Trust, creativity, and smarter data drive audio’s momentum

/ Advertising research, Audio Update, Brand Lift Study, Branded Podcasts, Podcasting
Podcasting Advertising Week

Advertising Week New York packed the house this year — especially inside the Podcast Zone, where Sounds Profitable hosted two full days of sessions that were, quite literally, standing-room only. Our observation from the panels, and from that leaning-in audience of buyers, planners, marketers and creators in the house, is that podcasting isn’t waiting for

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