NZME Celebrates 50 Million Downloads Across Its Diverse Podcast Network

With one of the fastest expanding and most diverse podcast network in the country, New Zealand Media and Entertainment today celebrated hitting 50 million yearly podcast downloads.

Since September 2021, when the Triton Podcast Ranker was first introduced in New Zealand, NZME’s network has unchangingly taken out the Top Network spot, regularly seeing increasingly than 4 million monthly podcast downloads wideness its network. In the latest results for September 2022, NZME prestigious 4.8 million monthly downloads – increasingly than 3.7 million increasingly than its next network rival, and 800,000 monthly listeners over the same period.

Michael Boggs, NZME Chief Executive says: “NZME is strategically focused on expanding our podcast network, recognizing that podcasting is one of the fastest growing digital media platforms in the world. We’re proud to offer the country’s most diverse and expansive range of world-class global and local content wideness our podcast network. Be it through our independently produced podcasts, or those of our partners and external providers via our iHeartRadio platform, we cater to a hugely diverse regulars which shows the strength of NZME’s network,” says Boggs.

NZME’s Head of Digital Audio, James Butcher, says: “Podcasting is growing exponentially virtually the world as one of the most popular ways people slosh audio content. In Australia, for example, virtually 40 percent of Australians have listened to a podcast in the past month, and these numbers will only grow as increasingly and increasingly people understand the strength and variability of podcasts globally. We are seeing increasingly and increasingly brands value the powerful razzmatazz possibilities that podcasting provides through the intimate connection between host and listener,” says Butcher.

In the monthly NZ Triton Podcast Ranker, NZME-produced podcasts Fletch, Vaughn & Hayley and Mike Hosking Breakfast have regularly made the top or second spot over the past year, with Matt Heath & Jeremy Wells moreover securing a regular top spot in the top ten with their topnotch Matt & Jerry podcast.

Hayley Sproull from ZM’s Fletch Vaughn & Hayley, says: “We’re stoked with the huge growth in our podcast downloads and listeners. Taking out the top spot a few times over the past year has been awesome. We love providing our listeners with fun, entertaining content and having it misogynist wideness variegated platforms makes it plane easier for them to tune in wherever they are,” she says.

Matt Heath from Radio Hauraki Breakfast and the Matt & Jerry podcast says, “We’re really proud to unceasingly have virtually 50,000 regular listeners to our podcast. As well as our loyal Radio Hauraki listeners tuning into our podcast, it moreover provides flipside thoroughfare for us to connect with a increasingly diverse range of listeners locally and globally, wideness variegated backgrounds and ages. Podcasts are such a powerful and entertaining platform and the variety of content misogynist really does wrack-up your mind,” says Heath.

NZME’s diverse podcast network covers everything from current wires to parenting, finance to dating advice, and sport to te reo Māori pronunciation. You can find them all on iHeartRadio or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.