Netflix on Podcast Growth, March Ad Spend Stats, & More

Netflix on Podcast Growth, March Ad Spend Stats, & More

Today in the business of podcasting:

  • Netflix Co-CEO, President and Director Ted Sarandos called out podcasting as a bright spot in the company's Q1 2026 earnings, noting that internal data shows video podcasts are driving incremental engagement, with particular strength in daytime viewing and on mobile devices.
  • Adobe has deepened its partnership with Speechmatics by adding on-device speech-to-text transcription to its Premiere video editing suite, processing an hour of audio in about 55 seconds at near-cloud accuracy while keeping all audio local to the device.
  • Bumper co-founder Jonas Woost introduced the Bumper Score, a third-party audience verification metric that measures how well a podcast delivers ads to a verified audience on a 0-to-200 scale, drawing on hosting provider data, platform audience data, and episode-level retention data.
  • The top 15 podcast advertisers spent an estimated $58 million in March 2026, down from $61.4 million in February, with sports podcasts dominating genre preferences across most of the top spenders, according to Magellan AI tracking data.
  • Podnews compiled the podcasting-relevant winners from the 30th Annual Webby Awards, which this year featured expanded podcast categories, with a winners ceremony set for May 11.


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