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Any way you look at it, podcasting is up. And today, 210 million Americans are podcast consumers.
For the first time, the Infinite Dial from Edison Research has reported that over 50% of Americans are listening to podcasts each month. The research, now in its 27th year, shows that 55% of Americans aged 12 plus consume podcasts every month. The study has an enlarged survey size and now asks about watching podcasts as well as listening. (Podcasts grow whatever question was asked).
The monthly splits show that video podcasts are still trailing audio podcasts, with 48% say they'd listened to a podcast in the last month and only 37% having watched one. The webinar presentation was co-presented by Edison Research VP Megan Lazovic and me. And you can watch it as well as download the report from a link you'll find in our show notes and our newsletter at podnews.net. Sam Sanders will be honoured with the Podcast Academy's Impact Award at the Ambies on March 31st.
The host of the Sam Sanders show, he was praised by Christy Mirabal, the chairperson of the Podcast Academy, as having the ability to challenge perspectives, celebrate culture in all its complexity and make audiences feel truly seen. In the Boston Globe, New England's 50 fastest growing companies include podcast production and marketing agency, The Podglomerate. Congratulations to them.
Open AI has announced a number of new audio-related AI tools, a better text-to-speech model, and some new transcription tools. Simon Willison takes them for a ride to see how they work. We'll link to that today. Stephen Goldstein is celebrating 10 years of Amplify Media. And we link to the kind of podcast review everyone wants. It's about Alex Goldman's Hyperfixed, and it's written by Matthew Hohey, the founder of Metafilter. An interesting thought of Matthew's.
I used to say, he says, that every podcast takes about 10 episodes to find its voice. And in podcast news, crowdfunding now until April the 17th, In Every Universe is a queer, polyamorous show about three people meeting each other over and over in different places, times, and lives. This audio drama spans multiple genres, visiting worlds of royalty, pirates, zombies, spaceships, and more.
Clubhouse is still going, it turns out, and podcasting Morning Chat uses it every day for a talkback community of podcasters. It's at 7 in the morning, New York time, and then they publish it as a podcast. Mark Ronick is the host. Today's episode is all about how you keep podcasting fun. In Pod News Weekly Review this week, a chat with Matt Medeiros about his views about new podcast app features, and a chat about the results of The Infinite Dial.
It's hosted by Sam Sethi and I, and it's supported by Buzzsprout. And National Park After Dark is celebrating nearly 300 episodes, four years, and 42 million listens. The show delves into the creepy history, tragic events, and inspiring stories hidden within some of the world's most beautiful places on Earth. The show has recently covered a newlywed who went missing in Glacier National Park only eight days after tying the knot, casting suspicion on his new wife.
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