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April 5, 2024:
March 12, 2024:
    The top shows in the UK for Q4/23 were announced by Edison Research. The data, from Edison Podcast Metrics UK, says that the BBC has no shows in the top 10; and there’s only one US show in the top 10, too. Acast hosts the most shows in the list.
January 18, 2024:
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September 29, 2023:
    In the UK, BBC Sounds is the third biggest platform used most often to listen to podcasts, according to Edison Podcast Metrics UK. Spotify is #1. Speaking on the Podnews Weekly Review, Edison Research's Melissa Kiesche also reveals big differences with Joe Rogan's audiences in the UK and the US.
September 28, 2023:
    In the Podnews Weekly Review tomorrow - we've exclusive data from Edison Podcast Metrics UK, as well as learning more about how the ranker works and what other data the team collects. Plus - wearing headphones might be damaging to your hearing: we speak to Q104.3's Shelli Sonstein who's been wearing headphones for fifty years.
September 25, 2023:
September 22, 2023:
    Tip: we hear that the first-ever Edison Podcast Metrics ranker for the UK will be published in The Observer on Sunday.
August 17, 2023:
August 2, 2023:
    Edison Research has published the US Top 50 Podcasts for Q2 2023 - the first time that Edison Podcast Metrics has produced a quarterly ranker. The Joe Rogan Experience is #1, Crime Junkie is at #2 and The Daily is at #3; the highest new entry was Bad Friends, a comedy podcast from Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee, at #34. The survey interviewed 5,352 weekly podcast consumers in the US, aged 13+.
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May 25, 2023:
    At The Podcast Show 2023 in London, it was announced that Edison Podcast Metrics are coming to the UK. Edison Podcast Metrics UK will be the first podcast ranker in the country, and will use a quarterly survey of at least 2,000 weekly podcast listeners. The company's release includes indicative data of the top five shows (none of which are from the BBC); the first full set of data will be unveiled for subscribers in Q3.
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February 7, 2023:
    Exclusive: You'll spot a new name at the top of future Triton Digital and Edison Podcast Metrics reports: "SiriusXM Podcast Network". Previously, the company was listed as "Stitcher Media" or "SXM Media", but we're told they "saw an opportunity to unify our naming conventions across these trackers in order to improve SiriusXM's overall brand equity and recognition in the industry, and raise awareness and understanding of our robust podcast content network."
February 1, 2023:
December 7, 2022:
    SXM Media is, once more, #1 for podcasts according to Edison Podcast Metrics data for the 12 months ending Q3/22. Spotify is down to #2, while iHeartMedia is #3. The data was produced by surveying 11,675 listeners from across the US.
September 1, 2022:
August 18, 2022:
    Above: Edison Podcast Metrics has released the US top 50 podcasts, by audience size, for the 12 months ending Jun 30.
August 9, 2022:
    A ranker already exists through Edison Podcast Metrics; SXM Media is #1. SXM aren't measured by Podtrac, though.
June 30, 2022:
May 25, 2022:
    One of the biggest podcasts in the world, WTF with Marc Maron has signed with Acast. The thirteen-year-old show claims 55 million listens per year, primarily in North America, and is the 25th most popular show in the US according to Edison Podcast Metrics. It will also use Acast+, the company's paid subscriptions product. It was with SXM Media, and hosted by Omny Studio.
May 18, 2022:
May 16, 2022:
    Opinion: This 'top publisher' data is based on "the number of podcasts in the top 100", and not based on audience reach nor total downloads. While data from Podtrac and Triton Digital is incomplete, both align well with publisher data we already have from Edison Podcast Metrics, a more robust survey of the whole space, which shows SXM Media at #1, and NPR at #4. To suggest that NPR isn't in the top ten of US podcast publishers is obviously untrue; but helpful narrative for its competitor iHeartMedia. Coincidentally, iHeartMedia owns Media Monitors, a fact not disclosed.
May 13, 2022:
    The Edison Research Podcast Consumer Tracking Report has a new name: Edison Podcast Metrics. The company has released the top 50 most listened-to podcasts in the US over the last twelve months: Joe Rogan is #1 and has increased his listenership, the company says. Dateline NBC and The Ben Shapiro Show are new entries to the top ten; The Daily has slipped a place to #3. The data is unique in including all available podcasts.

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