According to Sounds Profitable’s 2025 Advertising Landscape study, 22% of monthly podcast listeners made an immediate purchase after hearing a podcast ad.
For years, podcasts were viewed primarily as a brand-awareness play: powerful for storytelling and affinity, but harder to integrate into performance-driven media strategies. That perception is changing quickly.
What was once considered an upper-funnel branding channel is increasingly behaving more like commerce media, driven by advances in audience targeting, attribution and retail data partnerships.
