Triton Digital: US podcast downloads dip into the holidays

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• Triton Digital’s US Online Audio Consumption report says that podcast downloads slipped a little again last week: down from a high from the week of Nov 9. The data also says that Tuesday is the most popular day for downloads.

  
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• Spotify’s Jay Richman, who is Head of Global Advertising Business & Platform at Spotify, says that Spotify’s ad business is different to the rest. “I think the space is starting to bifurcate between our approach with streaming ad insertion versus what I see [the] rest of industry doing, which is flooding podcasts with radio style and programatic style ads,” he says in an interview with Axios.

  
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• Are we charging for ads the right way? We may want to adopt an (advertising charging) formula that truly reflects how much people actually listen, suggests Juleyka Lantigua-Williams in NiemanLab.

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