“Podslop” is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows
“Podslop” is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows
Over the past nine days, 39% of new podcasts were likely AI-generated, according to the Podcast Index. — Welcome back to Soundbite.
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
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg :
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
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide : Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social and @alexwilhelm.bsky.social . Twitter: @c0up See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Rich Stroffolino / @mranthropology.bsky.soc...
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 …