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<li><a href="https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2026/nielsens-podcast-listen-watch-report/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-17">Audio remains the bedrock of podcasting</a>, says a new report from Nielsen. 90% of monthly podcast consumers choose to listen, the data suggests, and most of podcast consumption is still audio, by a large margin. It quotes Edison Research's Share of Ear for Q1, which sys that 20% of time spent with ad-supported audio is podcasting: radio is more than three-times larger.</li>
<li>Podcasting is continuing to grow in the UK; though Brits are disapproving of AI hosts - <a href="https://podnews.net/press-release/uk-podcast-consumer-2026">The UK Podcast Consumer 2026 was released yesterday</a> by Edison Research at SSRS. UK shows are also reaching a considerable amount of Americans, the study shows. The podcast landscape in the country is very top-heavy, with the top 10 titles reaching a third of all weekly podcast consumers.</li>
<li>The podcaster behind <a href="https://podnews.net/podcast/iucav"><cite>The Pragmatic Engineer</cite></a> has pulled his video from Spotify, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gergelyorosz_my-story-of-leaving-spotify-or-what-happens-share-7483606527388512257-JNyN/?utm_source=podnews.net&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podnews.net%3A2026-07-17">writing a long piece on LinkedIn</a> detailing the issues he's had, and suggesting that the company doesn't care about reliability or execution.
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<li>Meanwhile, co-founder of podcast production company Podmasters, Martin Bojtos, tells the <a href="https://podnews.net/podcast/i5hv2"><cite>Podnews Weekly Review</cite></a> this week that, for a while, the #1 source of revenue for the company was video income from Spotify's partner program. The company is celebrating its tenth anniversary.</li>
<li>The company's changes at Megaphone - to use a new ad server - take place today.</li>
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