• September 22, 2021
• by fsadvertising

Podcasting is a new element in the paradigm of Digital Marketing. Though the concept is not exactly a novel one, its use in digital marketing is true. Podcasting essentially means distributing audio content via the internet. After exhausting the available resources of video content, digital marketers essentially turned to audio space to reach their audience. In a study conducted in the recent past, India emerged as the third highest consumer of podcasting content after the US and China.

WHY PODCAST IS SO POPULAR IN INDIA

The main factors are - podcasts are more relaxing and intimate in nature.

Podcasts are audio content. You can just plug in your headphones and listen to the content. It doesn’t demand you to look at a digital screen all the time. And by now, we all know the white light in the digital screens can significantly raise our stress levels. The white light creates a day-like situation even in the night when stared at the digital screens for a duration and it messages our brain to suppress the creation of melatonin, sleep-hormones. Therefore consuming content in audio-visual mode over time significantly hampers our sleep cycle and overall health. Podcasts on other hand it's actually very supportive of good rest as well as increased attention by being significantly less intrusive. This very nature of podcast contributed to its increased popularity as often people consume content prior to bedtime and podcast just works so well with that.

The second reason can be, as reported by many users, that podcasts are more intimate in nature. It feels like somebody is sitting beside you and talking to you. We know how the personalization of content works great with the audience today. Also since advertisements are not yet integrated into podcasts in India, it becomes more of a disturb-less, non-invasive medium to consume content. Radio had been popular for a long time with the Indian audience. That might have created a fertile ground for the podcasts to enter the Indian market.

A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that India will witness an increase of 30.4% compound annual growth rate in its monthly podcast listener base over the next five years. So we can safely assume that the boom is about to happen soon and it's just the beginning.

WHAT MAKES PODCASTS SO POPULAR

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More intimate format of delivering content.

  

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A more relaxing way of consuming content than audio-visual mediums.

  

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Less disturbing due to the absence of the ads.

  

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Content of a variety of genres to choose from.

  

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Podcasts come in many different languages making it more personal for the natives of different regions.

  

SOME FIGURES RELATED TO PODCASTS IN INDIA

In a study conducted in recent pasts, it shows that-

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62% of the respondents find podcasts more intimate than any other medium.

  

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62% have listened to podcasts at least once

  

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50% of the respondents prefer listening to one episode of podcast per week

  

Do you listen to podcasts? Share your experience in the comments below.

Also, read our article on '2021 Content Marketing Trends'

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