I was intrigued by an article I read last week from Sean Ross in his Ross on Radio blog. Always a keen and passionate observer of radio trends, Sean re-defined ‘radio’ and issued a battle cry for what he calls ‘Real Radio.’ As Sean sees it, ‘Real Radio’ has deep roots, though no longer necessarily […]
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The neck-snapping growth of podcast ad revenues is good news for podcasters, but it also presents some fundamental challenges as we look ahead. The U.S. ad spend on podcasting has nearly doubled every two years since 2015. From an estimated $69m in 2015 to more than $1b in 2021, the IAB/PwC’s U.S. Podcast Advertising Revenue
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It’s an uncomfortable truth for podcasters and publishers who have built their business on downloads. But it doesn’t make it any less true. A lot of podcast listeners go to YouTube for podcasts. As a podcaster, you can choose to ignore that reality or embrace it. Wishing it away isn’t a workable option. We’ve been
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Like many people, in the depths of the first COVID-19 lockdown I picked up a new hobby. Nothing too wild, but with no real excitement week to week and nothing much to spend money on, I belatedly got into listening to vinyl. I listen to a lot of music, but in the past I’d avoided
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While insulated from much of the disruption of the pandemic, podcast listening has been facing its own set of changes over the past couple of years. It was only a year and a half ago—two months into lockdown—that Joe Rogan took his $100 million payday from Spotify. Since then the pace of consolidation and acquisition
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Data has often been called ‘the new oil.’ And, like oil, it has more value when it’s been refined. IDC projects that the world will create 163 zettabytes by 2025, 10 times the amount generated in 2017. How big is a zettabyte? Put in an audio context, a single zettabyte of storage could store 7.5
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A couple of weeks ago, Spotify published the results of new research it conducted earlier this year exploring how people engage with different media. It’s an interesting read: the research uses neuromeasurement to get a sense of how the brain responds when we consume different types of content, and the results are written up in
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The audio landscape has been transformed in the past 25 years. The number of options and opportunities to listen to audio has exploded, creating a new excitement around audio in all its forms. The challenge for firms or organizations who are mapping out an audio strategy—or advertisers looking to capitalize on the growth of audio—is
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A curious thing is happening as new opportunities for audio are capturing the attention of advertisers. Instead of looking to invest new dollars in audio, it seems that most advertisers and agencies are shuffling dollars from one type of audio to another. Sadly, many of us working in audio are enabling this. Audio is hot
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I have an interesting relationship with Spotify… and it’s complicated. As someone who specializes in audio research, I’m fascinated by Spotify’s focus on data. With 365 million users, Spotify has a massive amount of data on music and podcast listening. And they use it in so many ways. As a Spotify listener, I like checking
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