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On today’s podcast episode, host Bill Fisher is joined by our forecasting writer Ethan Cramer-Flood and analysts Paul Briggs and Matteo Ceurvels to examine the podcast landscape around the world, looking at changes in listenership and the advertising opportunities that the format affords.

Connected TV (CTV) is revolutionizing television advertising by combining engaging content with targeted, data-driven strategies. With 75% of the US population watching OTT video, according to Ä¢¹½AV, advertisers have a golden opportunity to reach their ideal audiences.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss the likelihood that news influencers will replace traditional media, whether in-store sampling can make a comeback, how many ads are enough ads, what the science says about social media being addictive, why more brands don't encourage consumers to recycle, where daylight savings time actually comes from, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our vice president of content Suzy Davidkhanian and analysts Bill Fisher and Carina Perkins.

Snapchat champions positivity as Meta faces teen safety challenges: Snap's platform aims to balance user well-being with ad revenue growth.

Reddit finally sees the value in being a search engine: Improvements to its in-app search are crucial if it wants to capture more user attention.

Social users in the US will spend more than half their daily social time watching videos in 2023—up from one-third pre-pandemic. But social video’s growth is slowing, suggesting there’s a limit to the amount people want to consume daily.

Meta is one of the two most successful ad publishers in history (along with its duopoly rival, Google), but its ad dominance does not come in tandem with an equally dominant hold over consumers’ time. In fact, Meta’s share of ad revenues is surprisingly out of step with how much time people actually spend on its platforms, particularly when compared with competitors like YouTube and TikTok

The overall adult population will spend an average of 1 hour and 43 minutes (1:43) per day listening to digital audio this year. Among active listeners (monthly users), the figure will leap to 2:20. That’s not much more than last year, however.

By 2025, US adults will spend more time on TikTok than on Facebook, according to our June forecast. This marks a major milestone for TikTok, which is on track to become the largest social platform in total daily minutes by the same year.

US adults will spend an average of 230.3 minutes per day on mobile in 2023, according to our forecast. While they will spend less time with connected TV (CTV), at 114.9 minutes per day, the gap between CTV and mobile is shrinking.

Consumer attention is fragmented and getting shorter. At the same time, digital ad spend growth is slowing following a pandemic surge. That means marketers must be agile and strategic with their spending.

Over one-third (37.7%) of US consumers’ time spent with TV is with streaming services, per Nielsen. Cable is not far behind, with a 30.6% share of consumers’ TV time.

Time spent is decreasing across cable and broadcast TV but increasing in streaming. In Q4 2022, streaming boosted overall time spent with TV among US adults, reversing the decline in TV viewing over the past few years, according to Nielsen.

US adults spend nearly 3 hours a day watching linear TV and nearly two hours watching connected TV, according to our forecast. Viewers are moving to CTV, and so are advertisers. Learn how to cash in on this seismic shift during our free webinar on July 12. Sign up here.

TikTok users are spending half of their time watching videos that are 1 minute in length or longer, according to The Information.

Netflix will remain on top despite a shaky 2023. Estimates for Hulu and the other sub OTT services were not affected by the writers strike.TikTok and YouTube are in a close fight for short- and medium-length video viewing time.

Meta raises AI stakes: Meta AI has a competitive advantage over ChatGPT in potential distribution and could eventually provide new surfaces to serve ads.

To succeed in digital advertising at a time when consumers worldwide split their time between seven social platforms each day, simple, scaled, AI-powered creative campaigns are key.

Both companies are fighting to grab a larger share of digital ad spending growth.

Meta announces a new round of layoffs, saving the company $3 billion: The social giant is discontinuing support for NFTs and killing other projects due to declining revenue projections.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss why fewer folks are signing up to Spotify, whether breaking out an audiobook-only tier makes sense, and how much a speculative 'Music Pro' can move the needle. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Ross Benes.

On today's podcast episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss how buying alcohol online is different, what Uber’s shutdown of Drizly means for its retail media business, and how consumption habits are changing. Then for "Red-Hot Retail," our analysts give us four spicy predictions about the future of alcohol. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analyst Blake Droesch and director of Briefings Jeremy Goldman.

On today's episode, we discuss whether Meta has officially bounced back, what to make of Threads at this point, and what Meta's metaverse plans will look like in 2024. "In Other News," we talk about the impact of TikTok's new text-only posts and what happened to social media app Lemon8. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Debra Aho Williamson.

71% of teen YouTube users use the platform at least once per day, while 58% of teen TikTok users do the same on TikTok, according to October 2023 data from Pew Research Center.