It's even higher for English-speaking Canadians.
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Podcasts in Canada now reach more Canadians than ever before, according to Triton Digital’s fourth annual Canadian Podcast Report, which recorded the largest single-year increase in listeners to 46% a month. (For English-speaking Canadians, that number is 49%.)
Triton Digital also released its Australian Podcast Ranker for May 2026. Hamish & Andy are yesterday’s men; they’ve lost the #1 slot to Mamamia Out Loud. The highest new entry was from NOVA Podcasts at #88, with a show we’ll call DYFM.
AMP’s proposed cross-platform measurement framework might solve a measurement problem; but it won’t fix the money for independent podcasters, suggests Losh Moodaley, writing for Podnews today. She argues that podcasting’s costs are going up with the advent of video, and while the production standard has moved closer to broadcast, the monetisation model has not; and she makes suggestions of other ways to build revenue.
Mission Media has launched Mission Media Content Hub, a planning tool for programmatic podcast advertising. The tool offers live inventory and pricing, a contextual layer to better target advertising, and a unified dashboard. (The company has three vacancies in our jobs board).
Lachlan Murdoch’s FOX has bought Roku for $22bn. FOX owns Tubi, which has done a number of deals for video podcasts recently; and Red Set Ventures, which owns a number of podcasts as well as podcast membership company Supercast.
IAS announced a new episode-level pre-bid optimisation solution for programmatic podcast audio and video as part of its strategic partnership with Spotify. It marks the first time that buyers on The Trade Desk can apply contextual classification at the individual episode level.
A new show from Serial is to be launched tomorrow. The Last 12 Weeks takes you behind the scenes as a death penalty defense team races against the clock to try to stop an execution 30 years in the making.

With Airwave: AccuWeather Daily brings you the top trending weather story of the day - every day. Yesterday - scientists are a bit perplexed about a patch of water in the North Atlantic, south of Greenland and Iceland. What is this mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the ocean? And should we be worried?

SiriusXM’s Fantasy Footballers has announced a live show, The Megalashow, in August in front of a live audience in Phoenix AZ. It’ll be held in the 1,800 capacity Van Buren Theater, and has secured sponsorship from GMC and PetSmart.

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