Esther Manito, a British Lebanese comedian and podcaster, is to host the Independent Podcast Awards as soon as extra this 12 months, it’s been introduced. Greater than 450 entries have been acquired this 12 months; the occasion is in London in three weeks, on Oct 23.
Sequence exhibits make up the vast majority of the most-shared and prime new exhibits annually, says Apple Podcasts, which has launched a new chart, for Series. The chart is on the market “with iOS 18” in the USA, Australia, Canada, Eire, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden, and United Kingdom. (It additionally exhibits up on Mac OS 15.0). The corporate’s recommendation if you wish to seem on this chart is to, amongst different issues, mark your present as Serial, use Episode and Season tags, submit Full Web page Present Artwork, and embody a trailer. The corporate can also be to “rejoice one collection every month” in a feature called Series Essentials. – the primary is Ghost Story, which was first launched in October 2023.
Within the UK, RAJAR has released its MIDAS study for Summer 2024, exhibiting audio consumption within the nation. The variety of British adults listening to podcasts each week is as much as 23%, says the info. The bulk hearken to podcasts to “broaden my horizons”. Podcasts account for six% of all time with audio; 77% say they hearken to between 1-3 episodes every week.
- This information is compiled by recontacting those that took half in a radio listening examine; it persistently undercounts podcast listening when in comparison with Edison Analysis’s Infinite Dial. As ever, the development is most necessary.
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