What does it mean to be a “hit” podcast? And is this even a useful concept? To dig into this, we’re going to attempt to rightsize our perspective of podcast audience sizes. But first, a question about the one podcast that very likely qualifies as a “hit.” Think about the podcast that has for years […]
Redefining what’s a “hit” podcast. But does it even matter? Read More »
“Vanity metrics are dead.” I don’t think anyone would be surprised if I said this was heard on stage at a podcasting event. But in this case these words came out of the mouth of Sara Badler, Chief Advertising Officer, North America for The Guardian, at Branded Content Days NYC 2026. The event brought together
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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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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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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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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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
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
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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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
Are Podcasters and Listeners Missing the Advantages of Audio? Read More »