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- Jul 24: Podcast listening continues to grow, says Edison Research’s Podcast Consumer 2025 study, and the report contains significant data about video podcasts. Over half of the US population (aged 12+) has now watched a video podcast; 37% have watched one in the last month. Since 2015, the total time spent with podcasts has grown by an astounding 355% to 773 million hours per week.
- Jul 23: After he leaked his earnings himself in June, it’s official - this year The Joe Budden Network has earnt more than $1mn/month on Patreon from podcasting, according to a (susbcription-needed) feature from The New York Times. The network has around 70,000 paying subscribers. Budden is the top earner on Patreon, who told us that Joe shared the level of his earnings “to make a broader point: it’s possible for creators to maintain control over their IP and audience, stay independent, and still build massive, sustainable businesses on Patreon”. The network also earns “several million” from advertising.
- Jul 22: Sounds Profitable has won an award for Best Data Storytelling at the Content Marketing Awards. The CMI award is the second for Sounds Profitable partner Tom Webster, who directed the work: he first won with Edison Research in 2019.
- Jul 21: Exclusive: The Spanish public broadcaster RTVE is blocking podcasts from its national radio station RNE in third party podcast apps - and breaking how open RSS works altogether. One app that it’s blocked, AntennaPod, is free on Android and open-source, but its users can see but can’t download RNE shows - in a country where over 80% of people use Android. As we write in a special report today, it’s the latest in a series of public broadcasters trying to limit how the public listen to their shows.
- Jul 18: Podcast Movement made its first keynote speaker announcements for Podcast Movement 2025 in Dallas, TX this August. Jack Davenport, co-founder of Goalhanger (above), the UK’s biggest independent podcaster, will give us his “lessons from across the pond”; Gabriel Soto from Edison Research will share what we know about podcasting’s new listeners; and Lauren Passell and Arielle Nissenblatt (who love our podcast) will speak about the best podcast growth tips.
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