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Mid-Year Check-in: AM/FM Radio Listening via Streaming Remains at 13%

The most recent Share of Ear® study from Edison Research finds that 13% of all AM/FM radio listening in the U.S. is via the radio station streams, while 87% of listening is done to a traditional, over-the-air radio signal. Listeners can choose how they consume AM/FM radio content in the U.S., as the programming is now available through a […]

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07.12.2023 Weekly Insights: The Mobile Phone Keeps Chomping Audio Shares

This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. Last year, total listening to audio on a phone surpassed listening on a ‘radio set’ for the first time.     Looking inside the data, we can see that mobile listening had surpassed ‘radio set’ listening long ago in every […]

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The Infinite Dial 2023 Australia from Edison Research

Podcast and Online Radio Listening See Gains in Latest Australian Audio Study Seventh Annual Infinite Dial Australia Highlights Audio Trends  Click here to download The Infinite Dial 2023 Australia report Somerville, NJ, June 26, 2023 – Findings from The Infinite Dial® 2023 Australia, a comprehensive study of audio listening behaviours from Edison Research, show growth […]

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Weekly Insights 06.14.2023 Post-Pandemic, More U.S. Kids Are Listening To Audio Books

This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. Edison Research recently conducted the Audio Publishers Association (APA) 2023 Consumer Study. Among the findings of the research, we know that half of the 18+ U.S. population has ever listened to an audiobook, and listeners are likely to […]

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Weekly Insights 06.07.2023 Your Purchase, Delivered By Podcasting

This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. Podcasts have evolved into a mainstream medium whose hit shows have the jaw-dropping ability to reach millions of podcast listeners, as was the subject of our Weekly Insights email last week. Popular shows are healthy for a creator-first ecosystem because […]

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Weekly Insights 5.31.2023 How many shows to reach the majority of podcast listeners in the U.S.?

This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. When advertisers look at the podcasting space, they are met with the reality of a world filled with hundreds of thousands of shows, many of which have valuable, loyal audiences. All across the spectrum there are effective podcasts […]

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Weekly Insights 5.24.2023 Radio on a Radio

This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. Until rather recently, the word “radio” could be used interchangeably to denote either the device — the ‘radio set’ — or the sounds emanating from that set. There was only one way to listen to radio and that […]

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The Top 50 Podcasts in the U.S. Q4 2022 – Q1 2023

Top 50 Podcasts in the U.S. for Q4 2022-Q1 2023 Revealed from Edison Podcast Metrics     Edison Research is proud to announce the latest rankings of the podcasts that reach the most listeners in the U.S. from Edison Podcast Metrics.     The latest ranker from Edison Podcast Metrics shows the Top 50 Podcasts […]

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Weekly Insights 4.26.23 Gen Z and In-Car Radio Listening

This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. If we had a nickel for every time we get asked about Gen Z media habits, we could fund a new study on Gen Z media habits (actually, we are doing a new study on Gen Z and […]

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Gen-Z In-Car Listening presented at the 2023 NAB Show

Earlier this week we attended the 2023 NAB Show in Las Vegas and presented findings from our Share of Ear dataset along with other research. You can download the presentation deck below, and watch our Weekly Insights next week for more details if you missed the presentation. Click here to download Gen Z In Car […]

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Hit Play, Boomer! Podcasting’s Age 55+ Opportunity from NPR and Edison Research

Click here to download Hit Play, Boomer! Podcasting’s Age 55+ Opportunity  from Edison Research and NPR Scroll down to see a replay of the webinar Boomers are Podcasting’s “Opportunity Demographic” New report from Edison Research & NPR reveals that targeting the age 55+ audience could deliver tens of millions of new listeners Somerville, NJ (April […]

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Weekly Insights 4.12.23 The Top Three U.S. Podcasts Launched in 2022

This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email.  Please click here if you would like to subscribe In last week’s edition of the Edison Research Weekly Insights newsletter, we talked about how True Crime and Comedy have the highest “batting averages” in podcasting, meaning they are the categories most likely to put shows in the top […]

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