Over three million Australians listened to ABC podcasts in March, the highest ever monthly result for the national broadcaster. The ABC also had more titles in the top 200 than any other publisher.<\/p>\n
In the leadup to the Federal election, listeners are turning to ABC News podcasts, with\u00a0ABC News Top Stories\u00a0<\/em>growing its audience by 139k listeners and breaking through the one million monthly listeners mark for the first time. The podcast also maintained its No. 2 position in the Triton Podcast ranker.<\/p>\n ABC News Daily<\/em>\u00a0added 37k listeners month-on-month and rose one spot to No.9.\u00a0Politics Now<\/em>\u00a0grew its audience by 76k and climbed 10 places to No.37.<\/p>\n AM\u00a0<\/em>increased its monthly audience by 79 per cent to over 100k, advancing 45 spots to No.78.\u00a0Global Roaming<\/em>\u00a0with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald added 42k listeners and jumped up 35 spots to No.74.\u00a0PM<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The World Today<\/em>\u00a0both returned to the Top 200 for the first time since November.<\/p>\n Other ABC big movers were\u00a0Health Report<\/em>\u00a0which added 21k listeners in March, moving up 22 places to No. 85. Roy and HG\u2019s\u00a0Bludging on the Blindside<\/em>\u00a0also added 14k listeners and rose 11 places to No.91.<\/p>\n ABC Director Audio Ben Latimer said: “Reaching over three million Australians in March is testament to the impact of the ABC\u2019s podcasts. Whether it\u2019s\u00a0ABC News Top Stories<\/em>,\u00a0Health Report<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Global Roaming,\u00a0<\/em>the result demonstrates that audiences turn to the ABC for trusted information and stories that reflect their lives and interests.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over three million Australians listened to ABC podcasts in March, the highest ever monthly result for the national broadcaster. The ABC also had more titles in the top 200 than any other publisher. In the leadup to the Federal election, listeners are turning to ABC News podcasts, with\u00a0ABC News Top Stories\u00a0growing its audience by 139k … Continue reading “ABC Podcasts reach three million listeners in record-breaking month”<\/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-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","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=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}