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Media Mergers/Takeovers
There are three different media mergers or takeovers happening right now that could seismically upset the existing media ecosystem to a greater or lesser extent. These are: While each of these three is different, in scale, and importance, whether they go ahead seems to me to rest on how you define the markets they operate…
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Sports Streaming Update 2025/26 Season
Long-time readers of this blog will know I’m slightly obsessed with TV coverage of sports, and the rights situation. As football begins its new seasons across most of Europe, I thought it would be interesting to see the state of play across a range of leagues and look at some of the themes. Premier League…
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RAJAR Q2 2025
This post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the many years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details on the product, contact Deryck Pritchard via…
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What Is Adobe Doing About Audio?
I can’t help thinking that Adobe isn’t giving audio as much attention as it might. More specifically, the software giant is not giving its audio products as much attention as it should. Adobe makes a lot of software, and much of it is available to subscribers of their Creative Cloud bundle. I’ve been paying for…
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Archiving Podcasts
This week, it was announced that WTF with Marc Maron would be ending its run after 16 years. The show will end sometime in the autumn (aka ‘fall’) having produced more than 1,600 episodes over that time. Maron’s podcast was one of the big early titles, and it’s fair to say that although Maron was…
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Ofcom Podcast Survey and Audio Report 2025
Ofcom has just published it’s annual Podcast Survey for 2025, alongside its wider Audio Survey. Regular readers of this blog will know that Ofcom has been publishing this data for several years now, and I’ve always been keen to dig into the data here. This year, the release has coincided with The Podcast Show where…
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The Infinite Dial UK 2025 – Teaser
There is a wealth of podcast data coming out for the UK at the moment. During this week’s Podcast Show, Edison Research’s Senior Director of Research, Gabriel Soto, and AdsWizz’s Regional Director, UK & Ireland, Ollie Chadwick presented some early findings from The Infinite Dial UK 2025 survey. This is a report that Edison runs…
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Edison Research Top 25 Podcasts in the UK: Q1 2025
On the eve of The Podcast Show in London (Note: I’ll be speaking! Come see me at 14:10 on Wednesday on the Talking Podcasts 1 Stage), Edison Research has just published its new Top 25 list for UK podcasts. A reminder that this data is based on a survey of at least 2,000 weekly podcast…
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RAJAR Q1 2025
This post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the many years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I am delighted that I continue to be able to bring you this RAJAR analysis in association with RALF. For more details on the product, contact Deryck Pritchard via…
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6 Nations Remaining Free To Air
When I recently wrote about the end of Eurosport, I also referenced once more, the then ongoing discussion about what would happen with the Six Nations. The good news is that yesterday a four-year deal was announced for 2026-2029 between the Six Nations and the BBC and ITV. The tournament will continue to be available…
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Licencing One Streamer’s TV Show For Your Streaming Service
There seems to be a bit more of this happening: licencing your service’s programming in a “second window” to either a broadcaster, or now more commonly, a streamer. This week I read that ITVX is licencing Suspicion, an Apple TV+ original for its service. This seems to be the first time that an Apple TV+…
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RAJAR MIDAS Report – Winter 2024
RAJAR has published its Winter 2024 MIDAS report, with fieldwork carried out over two weeks of November/December 2024 sampling 1668 former RAJAR respondents aged 15+. They each completed a 7-day online diary recording their listening habits. Most of the measures show no real changes since the Summer 2024 release. But podcast listening has risen from…
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Edison Research Top 25 Podcasts in the UK: Q4 2024
Edison Research has just published its Q4 2024 list of the top podcast titles in the UK. A reminder that this data is based on a survey of at least 2,000 weekly podcast listeners in the UK using the same methodology that it employs for its US survey. And the survey is based on recall,…
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