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- First Look: Podtrac has expanded its service to list the top 100 podcasts in 30 different countries. Shows from Podtrac are automatically considered for the country-specific rankings, which are “made possible by Podtrac’s proprietary download measurement and estimation systems which include all podcasts in a region”. You’ll find the Top Podcasts By Country lists on the Podtrac website.
- Top shows include The Rest Is Politics in the UK; All Ears English in Saudi Arabia; O Assunto in Brazil, and Conversations in Australia. The UK chart has three shows from the BBC in the top ten, and four from Goalhanger - Joe Rogan is the top US show at #10.
- Apple Podcasts has just crossed over 100,000,000 available podcast episodes, says the Podcast Industry Insights website. The site has also removed the paywall for historic graphs.
- What are typical Spotify traffic conversion rates? Here are Podnews’s - 4.4% of people who see Podnews’s podcast in Spotify clicked on it; 41.2% of those listened to at least 60 seconds. Is that good, or bad? Bad, it turns out: The Podcast Marketing Academy is aggregating podcaster-submitted Spotify discovery data to help all of us measure how our shows are doing - and help make them better. Want to share your data? There’s a link in the page.
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