Episode Details

Today in the business of podcasting:

• Sounds Profitable’s Tom Webster finds that the share of monthly podcast consumers who name just one genre grew from 12% to 16%, and explains why hosts should spend a minute of every episode promoting another show.
• A Brazilian university lab launches an interactive map of more than 200 narrative podcasts, showing where each show’s story is set versus where it is produced.
• Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman reports that podcasters’ election night streams were far smaller than in 2024 and several big voices sat it out, a sign of a fractured media landscape.

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