Spotify unveils 2025's top 50 most popular US podcasts, led by The Joe Rogan Experience for the fifth consecutive year; 24 of the top 50 now offer video content
Almost half of the most-listened to 50 shows now have video available on Spotify — Spotify, as part of the annual Spotify …
Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners aged 13 and up say they use YouTube the most to listen to podcasts, passing Spotify at 27% and Apple Podcasts at 15%
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal :
A look at Apple Podcasts' fading dominance, as an April 2024 study of 603 podcast consumers found 31% use YouTube, 21% use Spotify, and 12% use Apple's app
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Podcasting is becoming an industry of megastars with huge deals and the biggest audiences; Edison: the top 25 podcasts reach nearly 50% of US weekly listeners
The top shows are adding video, merchandise and live tours and signing megadeals with Spotify, Sirius and Amazon.
Antenna: Spotify users are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services in the US, with a ~2% monthly churn rate, similar to Netflix
Its customers are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services. — Good afternoon from Chicago …
Study: just 2% of Spotify “super listeners” drive over 18% of monthly streams on average for an artist, with the number rising to 30% for the biggest artists
The National Music Publishers Association: in February 2023, Spotify had 44.4M US subscribers, Apple Music had 32.6M, Amazon Music had 29.3M, YouTube had 8.5M
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Source: Apple is on track to spend ~$300M on Google Cloud storage services in 2021, up ~50% from 2020, dwarfing ByteDance, Spotify, and other large customers
Apple executives have taken swipes at Google in the past over its privacy practices. But the iPhone maker trusts Google enough …
Spotify says TV and game console usage is up by 50% due to the pandemic, with increased consumption of wellness podcasts and searches for terms like “chill”
New York (CNN Business)The coronavirus pandemic has upended consumers' lives and behavior, including the way they stream music.
Gaana, the most popular music streaming service in India, has 152M monthly users, over half of Spotify's global user base and double Apple Music's global count
Gaana, which means ‘song’ in Hindi, has used its large library of local music and low prices to beat the competition