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YouTube is now the most popular service used for podcast consumption in the UK – two years after YouTube overtook Spotify in the US for the first time. Apple Podcasts is the fourth most popular app in the country, after the corporation-owned app BBC Sounds. The data is from Edison Research at SSRS, which presents the UK podcast Consumers 2026 in a free webinar on 16 July.
- The data says that 29% of weekly British podcast listeners, aged 15+, “choose YouTube as the most used service to consume podcasts”. 28% chose Spotify, 15% chose BBC Sounds, and only 10% used Apple Podcasts. This doesn’t mean that only 10% of podcast consumption occurs on Apple Podcasts – just that Apple Podcasts is “not the service they use the most”.
- However, Apple Podcasts is still #1 in terms of podcast downloads in the UK. Data from OP3, analyzed by Podnews and shared today, shows that 37.5% of all downloads in the country go to Apple Podcasts; Spotify gets 31.7%, while Amazon Music gets 4.1%. But, there’s one big caveat: This kind of data doesn’t measure YouTube at all; And Spotify won’t measure video, or BBC sound.
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Apple Podcasts’ video push “shows early promise,” Bloomberg reports in a paid article. The article reveals that shows including videos are seeing high consumption numbers. Part of this is attributed to Apple’s promotion within its apps. However, Ashley Carman also reports that the proliferation of videos by creators within Apple Podcasts is slow: only ten shows in the top 200 charts in the US currently offer videos.
- Part of the Bloomberg story notes that Acast is showing a 25% increase in consumption of shows with video on Apple Podcasts. companies are working Very Up Close – Apple Podcasts appearance at The Podcast Show in London sharing the stage with Acast executives and talent; Acast was quick to publicize that it was earning revenue from video podcasts (revenue in which Apple would share); And Apple Podcasts’ recent “Creators We Love: UK & Ireland” feature Only This includes Acast video-enabled podcasts. 🤔
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Riverside has enabled integration with Apple Podcasts HLS Video for those hosting podcasts on the platform. The service is available to those on the Grow plan or above, and is considered part of Riverside 2.0 – the company’s “biggest release to date”.
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Spotify Shoot! Spotify Score! The company told us that soccer podcast listening in the US has increased by over 380% since the start of the competition, making the US the #1 market for soccer podcast listening globally for the first time. red card? Which red card?
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PodPages, a tool that creates websites for your podcast, has what it calls its “biggest update ever,” including SEO features that can “autofix” your SEO to make sure more people find it, an “autopilot” to produce more SEO metadata to make sure Google (and other things) can find your show, and a lot more coming this week, we promise.
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Podtracks released its rankers for June. crime junkie There’s a brand new entry from Audiochuck at #1 for most US unique audiences. (This has been previously reported by PodScribe).
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What are the biggest shows of 2026 according to AI? Given that clearly a lot of people rely on AI tools for everything these days, Podglomrate tested them to find out which one he would choose. The indications given by the company also included the need for press coverage.
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CEO Podcast Diary co-founder Jack Sylvester has left the company. He has been out of the company for the last three months and is traveling around South America. “At the moment I don’t know what will happen next”. (We interviewed him in October 2024.)
Voices of cleaners from across Europe
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TODAY – A new documentary podcast explores the human stories behind one of the world’s most essential – and most overlooked – jobs: cleaning.
UNI Europa’s Unsung: Cleaners bring together Voice of cleaners across EuropeTelling their stories in their own words – from invisible labor and night shifts to organizing for dignity and change. We hear from people like Hayat Elhor, a cleaning worker at the European Parliament in Brussels; Or Lisa Stenson, a hospital cleaner in Ireland who was assigned to the first COVID ward.
The podcast is released at a critical moment As the EU changes its public procurement rules Control of €2,000 billion in annual expenditure. set the rules Working conditions of millions of sanitation workers Those who are employed by private companies but perform public contracts.
As you’ll hear in a four-part podcast, a surprising proportion of cleaners in many European countries come from migrant backgrounds. This is not a coincidence. It is a pattern shaped by discriminatory immigration policies, labor market barriers, and a systematic failure to recognize qualifications and skills acquired elsewhere. Cleaners are skilled workers who deserve to be paid fairly.
Unsang: sweeper is a podcast by UNI Europa, co-funded by the European Commission.
Listen to Unsung Now: The Cleaners on Spotify or find the “Macrodose” podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
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