Podcast listeners are listening longer

• Podcast listeners are listening longer, according to new data shared at Podcast Movement yesterday. Weekly listeners consume 6.3 hours of podcasts a week on average, according to the latest data from The Podcast Landscape - 5% higher than the previous year. The full data will be released in a free webinar on Thursday Sep 4 at 2pm Eastern.

• The 100 Greatest Podcasts of All Time were published by Left Of Dial Media. The product of votes from more than 300 audio creators, the list succeeds in containing both some of the shows you’d expect, but also containing shows from different countries and languages. Attendees to Podcast Movement were given a glossy printed version of the list.

• Congratulations to predictive analytics platform Flightpath, which is celebrating its fourth anniversary.

• Goalhanger’s co-founder Jack Davenport spoke with our Editor, James Cridland, at Podcast Movement. He told a story of discovering via the company’s email inbox that one of the fans of The Rest Is History is Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney - who was listening to an episode with Tom Hanks. The moral of the story - put your email address on your podcast’s website: and check your inbox: you never know who’s listening.

  • Fun fact: Goalhanger uses Riverside among its recording tools. That question wasn’t cheekily asked because of our current newsletter sponsor, honest. But - if you’ve not spotted it already, Podnews readers save 20% off a Riverside Pro annual plan today and tomorrow only - use the code PODNEWS to save.

• At Podcast Movement, Triton Digital released its “Next-Gen” podcast ranker and planning tools.

  • The data now includes additional information from the company’s Demos+ service, including the top 200 podcasts (calculated via survey, so including every show and platform). Comparing the top 9 shows in both Triton Digital’s survey-based tool and Edison Research’s existing survey-based top 50, all shows appear in roughly the same order; Joe Rogan is #1 in both of them. “Focusing spend on just the Top 50 podcasts limits total possible reach to only 49% of all monthly podcast consumers,” Triton says.

• Secret free movie: Age of Audio will have a special screening at Podcast Movement tonight at 6.30pm in the Sounds Profitable Lounge (available to everyone). The film details the history and changes in the podcast industry, featuring interviews with many of podcasting’s greats. Podnews has seen it - it’s worth a watch (and see if you can spot our three-second, audio-only cameo!)

Moves and hires

• Hannah Southern has joined podcast marketing agency Podcast Discovery as the company’s Commercial Lead. She joins from Lower Street and Message Heard.

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• We’re recording our podcast on the move this week. Here’s all the kit we use.

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