Digital audio has undoubtedly benefited from the UK lockdowns. Even with reduced commuting likely eating into their time spent with mobile audio, UK listeners still tuned in to digital audio elsewhere and will continue doing so.

Hispanic consumers have endured exceptional financial volatility—mostly bad—during the pandemic. Even in normal times, this population is a moving target, with its diverse components evolving in financial strength, degrees of acculturation, and digital engagement.

New audio formats, such as social audio in apps like Clubhouse, will continue to boost usage, but the real drivers will remain podcasts and streaming music, which are both continuing to grow. Social Networks. The pandemic left many people isolated, so it’s no surprise that social network apps had the biggest jump in average use.

Following an announcement from YouTube Premium that they've hit 50 million subscribers worldwide, we have updated our US forecast to reflect the platforms uptick. We now forecast YouTube Premium will hit 29.5 million US subscribers by year-end 2021.

Total time spent with media per day in the US will decline slightly in 2022, but most pandemic-era gains will be retained. Digital video, subscription OTT services, and smartphones will be among the bigger winners this year.

And in July 2020, the number of hours spent streaming music and performing arts content on Twitch reached 17.6 million, up 387% YoY, according to StreamElements and Arsenal.gg. Low Impact: Esports. The growth in live video and in video game viewers has not extended to esports, however.

Time spent with digital audio surpassed that of radio for the first time in 2021.

This second annual benchmark evaluates seven Canadian financial institutions across six feature categories and weights their scores according to the results of a survey of mobile banking users in Canada.

Twitch’s deal with the National Music Publishers’ Association must be the first of many: The platform will need to ink deals that actually let streamers use copyrighted music in order to fend off competitors and support its growing music community.

Digital Radio Ad Spending: Includes digital advertising revenues for local and national broadcast radio stations, satellite radio services, purely online radio stations, and streaming music services like Spotify and Pandora; includes podcast advertising and sponsorship; includes audio and nonaudio ad formats.

TV ad spending takes a hit as marketers adjust their budgets amid a recession.

US adults spend significantly more time listening to terrestrial radio than to any other ad-supported audio format.