How to Use listenership in a Sentence

listenership

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  • This is the second straight year that comedy and sports have led the pack, outranking news in third place, in terms of listenership.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2024
  • According to the Gimlet and Parcast unions, the staffers were told their shows were getting axed because of low listenership numbers.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Podcast listenership has steadily risen in the last decade; a third of Americans have listened to one in the past month, according to the Pew Research Center.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020
  • At the time of their two-decade anniversary, they were syndicated to 125 cities around the country with a listenership of nearly 5 million.
    — Philip Potempa, Post-Tribune, 12 June 2019
  • Then break down the listenership in terms of demographics.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Podcast listenership has been steadily growing in the U.S., with audiences growing about 40 percent over the last three years, per a Nielsen study.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The show was downloaded 10 million times in the first four days of its release, thanks in part to the network's built-in listenership that was directed to download the show on episodes of This American Life.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
  • The growth in the listenership of regional music is expected to only rise as more people in smaller cities and towns get online and form the next wave of the services' customers.
    — Amit Gurbaxani, Billboard, 9 Sep. 2019
  • To survive, and build listenership, the station needed a younger and more diverse audience.
    — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2021
  • His listenership more than doubled to 50 million people a month.
    — CBS News, 1 June 2022
  • New episodes usually drop once or twice a week; listenership for each usually numbers in the thousands.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Launching audiobooks on the back of its podcast platform has helped grow listenership faster.
    — Sara Fischer, Axios, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Now the two of you are direct competition for morning drive time listenership.
    — Bennett Kogon, Billboard, 18 June 2019
  • Monthly podcast listenership in the U.S. has more than doubled over the past five years to 73 million, according to Edison Research.
    — Anne Steele, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2018
  • In the past three years, podcast listenership has increased, and so has the number of murder-mystery shows in the space, including hits Crimetown, Criminal and Up and Vanished.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2017
  • YouTube listenership of the podcast grew thanks to that, and Sachs says those fans appear to be different—and younger—than those who may have found the podcast via traditional audio methods.
    — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But in the past decade — and the past three years, in particular — increased listenership for it has started in early November and even late October.
    — Wilson Wong, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2021
  • But despite the boom of podcast listenership, some companies are cutting back.
    — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 20 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a lot of overlap between that publication and maybe my listenership.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 20 Sep. 2018
  • When it was released over seven years ago, S-Town shattered podcast listenership records, gaining 16 million downloads in its first week and 40 million in its first month.
    — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2024
  • In this mode, the need for pushback is less important than getting the candidate to respond to the anxieties and interests of the podcaster’s listenership.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Revenue is up, listenership is climbing and new players are getting into the game as the industry spots another chance to broaden its scope.
    — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The company shares membership fees with partners based on the level of monthly listenership.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The effort comes as Spotify is poised to overtake Apple Inc. in podcast listenership.
    — Anne Steele, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Weekly listenership was also the highest it’s been since before the pandemic.
    — Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Building an audience and listenership or even developing your flow takes time and can ebb and flow but staying spot on with your intention and the ‘why’ is the one of the critical elements of it all.
    — Nj Falk, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Some alarm was triggered last year when the 2022 edition of the report indicated a decline in recurring listenership.
    — Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Even though those both have seen strong subscriber growth, MusicWatch found Spotify listeners spend much more time on the platform, driving its higher share of listenership.
    — Colin Stutz, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Spotify may not have to worry, then, about a dramatic decline in listenership for Rogan’s show.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The listenership has been great with feedback, Stewart said, while noting everyone misses Gold.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 22 Dec. 2022

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