Daily news podcasts: building new habits in the shadow of coronavirus

Report

This report focuses on the phenomenon of daily news podcasts, one of the fastest growing areas of media consumption. For publishers like the New York Times (The Daily) and the Guardian (Today in Focus) these on-demand audio briefings are now attracting large daily audiences, building habit and loyalty for their brands, and driving significant revenue too. Elsewhere the daily podcast scene is more nascent, though European public broadcasters and commercial publishers have been embracing them in the last year. The report looks at daily news podcasts in six countries (UK, US, Australia, France, Sweden and Denmark) and asks how coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected listening patterns and the way these shows are produced. Daily news podcasts make up less than 1% of all those produced but account for more than 10% of the overall downloads in the US and 9% in France and Australia, according to analysis of publicly available data.

Authors: Newman, N; Gallo, N

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
• Place of publication: Oxford
• Publication date: 2020-11-19
• DOI: 10.60625/risj-25y1-wm88
• ISBN: 9781907384844
• Language: English
• Keywords: FFR