Podcasting in 2010: The Calm Surface Obscures The Roiling Depths

I’m really excited to be presenting a significant session at this year’s Blogworld entitled The Current State of Podcasting. This one’s going to be a little different than what you’ve seen in previous years, where I’ve gone in and done my traditional bucketful of numbers augmented by folksy analogies. We’ve been tracking podcasting at Edison […]

The Infinite Dial 2010: Use of Social Media Explodes

Almost Half of Americans Have Profiles Says New Arbitron/Edison Research Study Study Also Reveals Younger Consumers Eager to Adopt Mobile Digital Radio The percentage of Americans age 12 and older who have a profile on one or more social networking Web sites has reached almost half (48 percent) of the population in 2010 – double […]

The Edison/ADM Consumer Attitudes To Podcast Advertising Study

In January, 2010, Edison Research and the Association for Downloadable Media collaborated on a significant survey of consumer attitudes about podcast advertising and sponsorships. Findings of the survey included the following: Other findings of this study included the following: *Nearly 80% of these podcast consumers agreed that “when price and quality is equal,” they “prefer […]

The Podcast Consumer 2009

This data presentation was originally delivered as a webinar in conjunction with the Association for Downloadable Media on May 21, 2009. The Podcast Consumer Revealed: 2009 is the fourth iteration of this widely-cited study of the growing audience for audio and video podcasts. Data for this research presentation is derived from the 17th Arbitron/Edison Research […]

The Podcast Consumer Revealed 2008

The Podcast Consumer Revealed 2008 is the third study in this annual series on podcast consumption, and contains data derived from the 2008 Arbitron/Edison Media Research Internet and Multimedia study. Highlights of this study were originally presented on April 16th at ad:tech SF, as a part of the Association for Downloadable Media’s “Get The Download” […]

New Podcasting Statistics – Is The Glass Half-Full, or Half-Empty?

Recently, I presented an update to last year’s Podcasting study to the Corporate Podcasting Summit in London. The most accurate thing one can say about the state of Podcast consumption in 2007, now that we have some trending under our belts, is that podcasters face some challenges ahead, but the rewards for success are great. Of course, the challenge with statistics is that people like favorable numbers to back up positions they agree with, and tend to discard the rest…