The #2 radio advertiser is also the #2 podcast advertiser

• The #2 radio advertiser in 2017 is now also the #2 podcast advertiser, according to data from Magellan’s podcast ad report for January. Magellan details all 110 ads the company found in the US top 2,000 Apple Podcasts trending chart. The top three: #3 Indeed, #2 Geico, and #1 ZipRecruiter. While this does show that US radio’s $15.9bn annual revenue is beginning to come to podcasting (which stands at a more meagre $314m), none of radio’s other big advertisers are yet visible in the podcast top 15.

  
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• Apple Podcasts, the default app on iPhone, gets a “mark as played” feature on the latest version of iOS 12.2.

• Bruce Wawrzyniak of Now Hear This Entertainment has posted a blog post covering what he’s learnt in five years of podcasting. More than just good marketing, he says.

• Wil Williams writes “how to keep your listeners coming back”.

• The Guardian tells us that wedding podcasts are a thing.

Podcasts

Parentland is a truly global podcast that aims to tackle the dilemmas parents all over the world face, using science and research. According to the press release, the first episode’s questions come from AbdulRasheed in Nigeria and Chiara in Italy. (BBC)
Chapter One is a simple but brilliant idea: hear the whole first chapter of new books every episode. (Nearly / Omny Studio)

Knuckleheads with Darius Miles and Quentin Richardson is released today - the NBA veterans talking sports and culture in a new podcast. (Player’s Tribune / ART19)

Thing we enjoyed listening to over the weekend in a drive to the beach: David Walliams’s Marvellous Musical Podcast. A fun way to spend a little time learning about rockstar composers like Franz Liszt. (Global)