December to February was the ABC\u2019s strongest summer on record for listeners across our on demand audio content.<\/p>\n
Engagement with our audio on demand content has grown throughout January with the first two weeks of February the strongest ever for on demand content. There were 2.38 million stream starts in the week commencing 2 February and 2.37 million in week commencing 9 February via the listen app, according to our internal measures*.<\/p>\n
ABC SPORT was a significant driver of audiences across December and January. Audiences peaked in the week commencing 29 December during our coverage of the Australia v India test series with 744,000 live stream starts. Across the summer period there were a total 59.7 million streaming minutes for ABC sport content**.<\/p>\n
ABC and Australian exclusive\u00a0Bluey Listen Along<\/em>, audio-only versions of favourite\u00a0Bluey<\/em>\u00a0episodes delivered 1.76 million listening minutes via the ABC listen app across January*.<\/p>\n ABC Director Audio, Ben Latimer said: \u201cThe ABC prioritised original, distinctive Australian content for our audience across the traditional non ratings summer period. We\u2019re delighted our content has connected with more Australians than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n The latest Triton results***, released today also demonstrate the strength of the ABC\u2019s podcast offering. The ABC continues to be Australia\u2019s 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0most listened to podcast network adding 140,000 listeners for 2.5 million listeners across January, up\u00a0275,000 listeners when compared to January 2024.<\/p>\n The ABC has more titles in the top 200 than any other publisher, with 27 of our titles featuring in the January ranker.\u00a0ABC News Top Stories<\/em>\u00a0was the second most listened to podcast in January and we had 3 podcasts in the top 10 for the first time since October 2024, with\u00a0Conversations<\/em>\u00a0improving by one rank to #6 and\u00a0ABC News Daily<\/em>\u00a0climbing three ranks to #8.<\/p>\n Other highlights from our podcast slate were\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0ABC Tennis Podcast<\/em>\u00a0which returned to the ranker at #85 thanks to our partnership with the Australian Open and\u00a0ABC SPORT Daily<\/em>\u00a0up 44 places to #36.\u00a0Radio National Breakfast<\/em>\u00a0also jumped 31 places to #104 and added 15,000 listeners.<\/p>\n The full Triton Australian Podcast Ranker can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Audiences can enjoy all the ABC’s podcasts, live radio and sport content for free and ad free on\u00a0ABC listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n *Source Snowplow.<\/p>\n **Summer period defined as (15\/12\/24 \u2013 25\/01\/25).<\/p>\n *** The Triton Australian Podcast Ranker is a regular monthly snapshot of Australia’s most popular podcasts. The Ranker has been reporting podcast listening in Australia since 2019 and includes a wide cross section of Australian podcast publishers, from both radio and non-radio backgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December to February was the ABC\u2019s strongest summer on record for listeners across our on demand audio content. Engagement with our audio on demand content has grown throughout January with the first two weeks of February the strongest ever for on demand content. There were 2.38 million stream starts in the week commencing 2 February … Continue reading “ABC audio on demand has a record-breaking summer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}