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British podcasts are increasingly found via 47-second extracts on TikTok and Reels. We map six clip strategies, the people who cut them, and what separates a clip that travels from one that dies in the feed.
From Goalhanger Plus to the indie Patreon tier, British podcast memberships have crept past the £5 mark. We audit what listeners actually get for the money, where the value is real, and where it quietly isn't.
There is a sub-genre of podcasting that arrives almost pre-charted: get cast members of a beloved sitcom back to a microphone, run it episode by episode, and you have a Top 20 hit. Here is why the rewatch format works — and where it breaks.
Book podcasts have a strange problem to solve: how do you make reading — the most private of pursuits — sound interesting out loud? Six British shows have arrived at very different answers.
Six British political podcasts, six different bargains struck with the listener. We compare cadence, format, ownership and the wildly different definitions of 'civil disagreement' each show has quietly settled on.
A million-download podcast sounds enormous — until you ask which million, on what platform, by which standard. We unpick what the industry's biggest numbers actually count, and what they quietly leave out.