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• iHeart’s common weekly downloads within the Podtrac ranker for June are 78mn, 18% greater than Triton’s number, regardless of each options being IAB Licensed. During the last month, attempting to grasp why they’re totally different, Podnews spoke to Podtrac, Triton, iHeart and the IAB – and learnt:

  • Not all iHeart reveals are measured by each Podtrac and Triton. Triton works by logfile evaluation, Podtrac works by redirects, and never all reveals help each. (Triton doesn’t report the full variety of iHeart reveals that it measures).
  • Moreover, Podtrac measures a calendar month; whereas Triton measures a four-week interval. (June, as one instance, has an extra weekend and three fewer weekdays than Might this 12 months, which modifications common numbers considerably).

• The Asia Podcast Awards are because of shut by the top of this week – so for those who’ve not but entered, get to it! After they shut, listeners will have the ability to vote for his or her favourites within the Folks’s Selection class.

• The most popular podcasts in Singapore are educational shows, in accordance with analysis from On Gadget. It claims 55% of Singaporeans pay attention month-to-month to podcasts. In the meantime, in the UK, comedy podcasts are the most popular, with 61% listening month-to-month.

  • The information relies on 800 respondents in every nation, and present considerably greater attain numbers than different analysis. By press time, the corporate hadn’t informed us how they had been recruited.

• In Spain, the Podcast Days Awards are now open for entry. You’ve till Sep 8.

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• What number of energetic podcasts are there? As above, there are 322,004 (outlined as any feed with at the very least one episode over the past 30 days). Podnews has stored day by day knowledge from The Podcast Index over the past 18 months (JSON), and whereas that quantity has decreased year-on-year, it hasn’t decreased by a lot. Fascinating to notice each the low-point (the top of the Christmas holidays) and the high-point (mid-March for some cause).

• Google has a brand new AI instrument known as Illuminate, which takes a scientific paper and turns it right into a 5 minute (dual-hosted) “podcast”. Youssef Ismail gives it a go, and posts some examples.

• All the time attention-grabbing to examine in on our web page displaying podcasters switching their show to a different podcast host. During the last thirty days, the most important winners are Megaphone, Spotify for Podcasters, and Acast. The most important losers are Spreaker, SoundCloud and Libsyn.

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