Here's what you need to know for this week in the business of podcasting:Less is More: ARM’s Podcast Ad Break StudyBrand Safety, Programmatic Growth, and DAI Dominance in IAB ReportWondery Podcasts to Air on CTV ChannelsNetflix Lightens Ad LoadQuick Hits:

• How Branded Podcasts Might Be One Key To New Listeners by Tom Webster. The potential reach for podcasts about favorite brands is about 106 million Americans 18+, according to The Power of Brands in Podcasts: A Podcast Landscape Study.
• Good Tape, Issue 1 now available. The first issue of a new print industry magazine featuring journalism and cultural criticism of podcasting is now available for order. Readers of The Download can get 10% off with promo code SP10.
• Archives to Earbuds: Podcasts for Cultural Institutions. This coming Monday, Jessica Alpert of Rococo Punch will moderate a panel of experts, hosted by The Podcast Academy and presented by the Leo Baeck Institute.
• Here’s how our top podcasts of the year get listeners to stay by Karen Burgess. Pacific Content takes a look at five branded podcasts that successfully use storytelling to not just perform well as branded content, but as podcasts in general.
• McDonald’s jingle, 20 years later by Alyssa Meyers. A history of the fast food jingle that’s still going strong two decades later, showing the power of well-curated sonic branding.
• YouTube Culture & Trends Report 2023.  55% of respondents watch content that no one else they know watches, indicating the trend of hyper-personalized content is growing. Good news for podcasting!
• CoHost Announces the Launch of its Prefix That Aims to Demystify Podcast Audiences for Brands and Agencies. The new prefix provides both advanced audience demographics and B2B analytics that track what companies are listening to the podcast.