Some interesting new podcast usage stats, as reported in eMarketer: Research from Bridge Ratings looked at the abandoment [sic] rates of podcasts among US listeners. A quarter of US podcast listeners abandoned podcasts that ran 45 to 60 minutes, though a lower 15% of respondents abandoned podcasts longer than 1 hour. Shorter podcasts had significantly lower abandonment rates. For example, just 5% of listeners abandoned podcasts that were less than 5 minutes long. I’d like to

With a great flourish, the powers-that-be behind the NextRadio app have announced that this week shall begin a thunderous effort to enlist one constituency so far utterly lacking in enthusiasm for NextRadio’s product: Consumers. And so begins an onslaught of over-the-air radio spots designed to lead consumers to download an app that will not work on most of their phones, meanwhile attempting to incite rage that the “choppy, buffered streaming radio” that wireless companies “w

“Radio does not get its fair share [of ad revenue],” says Radio Ink. That’s based on a new eMarketer report indicating that consumers aged 18+ spend 12% of their media time with radio, while radio receives only 9.3% of the ad spend. Radio Ink’s premise is flawed in two ways: First, there’s no such a thing as a “fair” share of ad dollars; Second, ad dollars should not necessarily match time spent. “Fair” is a value judgment in a world where life generally isn’t. From the adver

Here are some stats from a brand new eMarketer report on U.S. digital media usage changes from now to 2013. I’ll focus on some highlights relevant to broadcasters: Facebook users:  147 million, up 4% Twitter users: 36 million, up 14% Smartphone users: 138 million, up 19% Mobile Internet users: 144 million, up 18% Mobile video viewers: 23% of the population, up 20% Smartphone video viewers: 22% of the population (and more than half of smartphone users): up 22% Online movie vie

I think most broadcasters are thinking about mobile all wrong.  The thinking goes like this: “We need a dedicated mobile app for our station!” Or… “We need to get our stations on mobile apps that already exist, like Tunein or IHeartRadio!” Both of these are wrong (or at least vastly insufficient) for the same reason:  They are about you, while mobile is about the consumer – her problems, needs, and interests – and the advertiser – who wants more than reach in a world where yo

The average time spent per day with radio has declined by 2% from 2009 to 2010. Meanwhile time spent with mobile is up almost 30% and Internet time is up more than 6%. That’s one highlight of a new report by eMarketer, which summarizes… a meta-analysis of data from dozens of research firms using a variety of methodologies. The result is a series of estimates of how much time consumers spend with all major media, regardless of multitasking or simultaneous usage, from 2008 to 2