This check sheet is from SearchEngineGuide.com, Jennifer Laycock, author, provided during seminar session at Podcamp Ohio in Columbus, Ohio, June 27, 2008.
Ever since podcasting was introduced, the question has been the same: Will anyone listen?
The answer is definitely “Yes.”
eMarketer estimates that the total US podcast audience reached 18.5 million in 2007.
The Infinite Dial 2008: Radio's Digital Platforms,The
latest study by Edison Media Research and Arbitron, is the third in a
series of annual Infinite Dial studies exploring the digital audio
platforms (online radio, satellite radio, HD Radio, and podcasting
among others) that expand the radio market, their impact on AM/FM
radio, and implications for advertisers and media planners.
From Pew Internet & American Life Project: "As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later. This most recent percentage is up from 12% of internet users who reported downloading podcasts in our August 2006 survey and 7% in our February-April 2006 survey. Still, podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few internet users download podcasts on a typical day."
The Podcast Consumer Revealed 2008 is the third study in this annual series on podcast consumption, and contains data derived from the 2008 Arbitron/Edison Media Research Internet and Multimedia study. Highlights of this study were originally presented on April 16th at ad:tech SF, as a part of the Association for Downloadable Media's "Get The Download" event.
Today there are nearly 1 billion hungry people around the globe. yet in only 50 years, our growing global population will require an esti- mated 100 percent more food than we produce today.
