If the headline seems startling, it’s for good reason. Over a ten-year span podcast listening has gradually overtaken ...

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In Spotify’s just-released earnings report (Q4 2025) we see good news on the top lines motivating a vigorous bounce in stock ...

Apple is trumpeting upgrades to its video podcasting tools for creators, and the podcast listening experience for users. The company is calling these new specifications “a transformative update.” Cont ...

After we recover from the rush of yesterday’s successful RAIN Summit Orlando event (and today’s iTunes Radio launch), we’ll get cracking on our own coverage of the Summit. In the meantime, our ...

Global podcast company Acast has released Podcast Pulse 2025, the latest in its annual report series on global podcast trends. (RAIN’s coverage of the 2024 report is HERE.) The backbone theme of this ...

In this week's column, James declaims: "While the Americans have, sadly, stopped innovating in radio as far as I can see - and I’ve evidence that they stopped 19 years ago - other parts of the world ...

A new research report from Coleman Insights and Amplifi Media is titled From Explosion To Evolution: The State Of Video Podcasting. Findings were released and presented in a webinar hosted by Jay ...

Measurement company Podtrac has released Top Podcasts By Country, which lists the single #1 podcast in each of 48 countries. (The inaugural list, covered by RAIN HERE, ranked only 30 countries.) The ...

In two surveys organized by non-profit trade group Audio Publishers Association, conducted by two research companies, we learn: The work behind these numbers is from Edison Research, which queried ...

This is part two in our coverage of the Audio Listening in the UK report from London-based UK communications regulator Ofcom, 2025 edition. The survey-based study examines audio listening preferences, ...