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Analysis: Threads’ nearly 100 million MAUs after three months dwarfs Mastodon and Bluesky’s userbases.

Sachin Doshi, chief content officer at Podimo, tells the The Media Leader why the podcast market is more similar to news media than music, and what that means for the future of its monetisation.

No, the label ‘podcast’ doesn’t lend itself to a targeted advertising business model. But despite that, it works, argues Publicis Media’s associate insights director.

Host Jack Benjamin is joined by reporter Ella Sagar and editor-in-chief Omar Oakes to discuss this quarter’s Rajar figures and earnings results for Spotify, Netflix, and media agency holdcos.

Smart speaker listening slightly declined quarter-on-quarter, now accounting for 13.8% of all listening, according to the latest Rajar audience data.

The BBC has taken some share of listening back from commercial radio, a small buck of a trend that has been happening for the previous three quarters. 

Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio has overtaken Global’s Capital in terms of weekly breakfast show listeners, according to the latest Rajar audience figures.

Ken Bruce’s Greatest Hits Radio mid-morning show attracted 3.7 million weekly listeners, up 124% year-on-year, according to the latest Rajar figures.

This month’s The Future of Gaming event was full of advice for marketers on how to avoid the common pitfalls around investment in what has become the biggest entertainment medium in the world.

The Covid Inquiry has been lost in the news cycle as news media, and especially Conservative-friendly outlets, are ignoring the scandal.