Southern writes, “According to Julia Beizer, global chief product officer, adoption started off slow, particularly on mobile web, and shortly after launch, people were listening to two and a half stories on average per app session. Now, this has increased to six stories and has become the second-most popular media type on the app (behind live TV).
”Audio is particularly interesting for our audience because of that multitasking utility, that is a real news use case,’ said Beizer. ‘The delivery of journalism is changing to meet this moment, audio for a multitasking audience a huge tool in our toolkit.’
“Publishers like the Financial Times, which has a similar audience segment of global business decision makers, has been converting text to audio articles since last year and is seeing that people are coming back regularly to listen.”
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