The Advertising Landscape 2025: Reach

The Advertising Landscape 2025: Reach

The Advertising Landscape - Reach is the first part of the largest survey of podcast advertising effectiveness in the US.

By Tom Webster

April 16, 2025

Sponsored by

Join Sounds Profitable’s Tom Webster for the first look at The Advertising Landscape 2025, our newest flagship study of the ad-supported media landscape. This is the largest cross-media study of advertising in podcasting in America, and provides the most comprehensive picture to date of podcasting’s strengths and weaknesses as an advertising vehicle.

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Registrants will be the first to receive the latest report from this project, which will dive into the Reach story – what ad-supported media channels do Americans use every day, and how are those most active users different to each other?

This project used a novel survey design that compares podcasting to fifteen other ad-supported media channels, from audio, to video, social media, and even gaming. This is also the first project to isolate the audience for ad-supported podcasts – which is different to the overall podcast audience – and how they perceive ads in other channels.

 

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Audio Primes: The People Who Listen to Podcasts

Thursday, April 16th at 2PM EST

In this webinar, Sounds Profitable unveils Audio Primes, a new audience segment sponsored by RSS.com and drawn from The Podcast Landscape 2025 study. These are podcast consumers who listen to at least three-quarters of their content as audio, and they defy every stereotype you might have about them. We'll walk through who they are, how they consume media, what drives their remarkable loyalty, and why they function as the word-of-mouth engine of the entire podcast ecosystem. Join Tom Webster, Partner at Sounds Profitable, and Alberto Betella from RSS.com as they present original research you won't find anywhere else. Whether you sell ads, make shows, or build platforms, you'll leave with a clearer picture of the audience that matters most and a better understanding of what to do about it.

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