How to Use listenership in a Sentence

listenership

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 22 Dec. 2022
  • According to the website, KAAM already has a broad online listenership and has been credited with being the most listened-to nostalgia format in the country.
    — Robert Philpot, star-telegram.com, 20 May 2017
  • Though Spotify has not disclosed listenership data for its live shows, the standalone Greenroom app did not have significant downloads in the early days of its launch.
    — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Podcast listenership has been on an essentially upward trajectory since the medium first emerged alongside the iPod in the mid-2000s.
    — Katie Deighton, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The rapid growth of podcast listenership coupled with the intimacy of long-form audio has opened up opportunities for deep dives on subjects that would have previously seemed far too niche for mainstream media.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
  • And by infusing many of his traditional country melodies with rap cadences and beats and alt-rock guitars, Wallen has expanded his audience far beyond country’s typical listenership.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2023

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