ICYMI: 94% of Americans now listen to online audio weekly - what it means for ads: Edison Research data shows 94% of monthly online audio listeners now tune in weekly, up from 57% in 2006, a shift advertisers cannot ignore in budget planning. https://ppc.land/94-of-americans-now-listen-to-online-audio-weekly-what-it-means-for-ads/ #OnlineAudio #DigitalMarketing #AdvertisingTrends #MarketingStrategy #MediaConsumption

ICYMI: Podstock data: Spotify drives 1.5x more podcast listening time than YouTube: Podstock benchmarks show Spotify podcast streams generate 1.5x more minutes than YouTube views, but discovery spikes push average time spent down across shows. https://ppc.land/podstock-data-spotify-drives-1-5x-more-podcast-listening-time-than-youtube/ #Podcasting #Spotify #YouTube #Podcasts #MediaConsumption

ICYMI: Australians spend 21 hours a week streaming - and the data shows where: Ipsos iris and IAB Australia's March 2026 Digital Landscape Report maps 22.66M online Australians, their devices, and streaming habits across all age groups. https://ppc.land/australians-spend-21-hours-a-week-streaming-and-the-data-shows-where/ #StreamingAustralia #DigitalLandscape #OnlineHabits #MediaConsumption #StreamingReport

FYI: Irish digital audio hits COVID-era highs, and advertisers are noticing: IAB Ireland's Listen Up 2026 finds 76% weekly reach, 16.6 hours consumed, and digital audio ads ranked second for claimed attention across all media in Ireland. https://ppc.land/irish-digital-audio-hits-covid-era-highs-and-advertisers-are-noticing/ #DigitalAudio #COVID19 #Advertising #IABIreland #MediaConsumption

ICYMI: 96% of advertisers back audio as Bauer study exposes glaring investment gap: Sound Check Europe 2026: 96% of advertisers will hold or grow audio spend, yet audio captures only 5% of ad investment despite one-fifth of media consumption. https://ppc.land/96-of-advertisers-back-audio-as-bauer-study-exposes-glaring-investment-gap/ #AudioMarketing #Advertising #MediaConsumption #DigitalMarketing #AdSpend

Zap! What television programmers invented and Silicon Valley perfected - part 2 www.linkedin.com/pulse/zap-what… #history #mediaConsumption #television #SocialMedia #moralPanics

Zap! What television programmers invented and Silicon Valley perfected - part 2 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zap-what-television-programmers-invented-silicon-valley-bitfe #history #mediaConsumption #television #SocialMedia #moralPanics

Media producers have a #bias. Would be nice to have a #tool that assists with our #mediaconsumption. Not so much as a #censor, but as an informer. An #app that pre-digests #content, and then serves it with additional information to understand what and why something is presented to us, in a specific manner. All with the aim to reduce #cognitiveload and supporting #criticalthinking powered consumption of media consumption, in a #content #saturated #environment.

The Absurd Wall Around Picture‑in‑Picture for Music on YouTube

There is something uniquely frustrating about running headfirst into a limitation that feels completely artificial. Not a technical constraint. Not a hardware shortcoming. Not even a genuine legal impossibility. Just a wall, quietly erected, that exists because someone decided it should. YouTube’s refusal to allow music content to run in Picture‑in‑Picture mode on iPhone and iPad is one of those walls. It stands there, immovable, while everything around it suggests that it should not […]

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