Across platforms, audiences are discovering the power of audio. For nearly 50 years, NPR has been honing its craft and attracting loyal audiences across platforms.
AUDIO
The Power of Audio
Today audio is more accessible and personalized than ever before. Audio is the #1 media people engage with on their smartphones. Daily spoken word audience listening on mobile has doubled since 2014. And radio still dominates in the car and is increasingly accessible through streaming and smart speakers. The integration of audio into people’s lives gives brands new opportunities to connect with listeners in powerful, personal ways.
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This is NPR.
25M
monthly NPR podcast listeners¹
27.9M
weekly NPR radio listeners²
10.7M
monthly on-demand NPR downloads on smart speakers³
108M
total weekly hours spent with NPR content⁴
Sources: (1) Podtrac, June 2020; (2) Nielsen Audio, Fall 2019; (3) Splunk and NPR Podcast Logs, April - June 2019; (4) Weekly averages. Broadcast data is from Fall 2018. Digital platforms are Jan-March 2019.
Radio
Radio reaches more people each week than any other medium in the U.S. NPM offers brands access to the most popular public radio programs available — locally and nationally.
Podcasts
Podcasts are now part of more than 90M people’s weekly listening — and NPR has led the industry since the beginning. NPR has 9 of the top 20 podcasts and attracts an engaged, influential audience.
Voice
Voice-activated technology is changing consumer behaviors, especially around listening. NPM delivers solutions for brands on voice-activated devices like smart speakers that help extend sponsor messaging and encourage engagement.
NPR One
NPR One offers NPR’s most custom branding opportunities; a growing, engaged audience; and scale across podcasts and digital.
NPR Player
Offering uninterrupted listening while exploring NPR.org, the NPR Player integrates your brand’s messaging into NPR’s online experience.
Brand Soundscapes
Custom audio creative, crafted by NPM Creative — NPM’s in-house production team — share brand stories in a way that fits with the NPR environment.
Let NPM Creative help you share your brand’s story.
Target
A series of Brand Soundscapes about inclusive beauty, clothes designed for children with special needs, and programs supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs revealed the stories, and people, behind Target’s products.
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Capital One
CreditWise® from Capital One® partnered with NPM Creative to produce a series of Brand Soundscapes that educated listeners on the complex topics of fraud, identity theft and the dark web.
View the workKia Motors America
To support the release of the Niro — Kia’s first-ever hybrid crossover — NPM Creative produced a series of Brand Soundscapes that focused on the craft behind the vehicle.
View the workNews & Insights
Article
July 2020
NPR Sponsorship Launches Programmatic Audio for Brands
Now brands can elevate a podcast campaign with programmatic pre-, mid- or post-roll in NPR podcasts based on genre, podcast title or audience targeting.
Article
June 2020
Q&A with SVP of National NPR Sales Scott Davis
National Public Media SVP of National NPR Sales answers brands' questions about how public radio can impact marketing strategies.
Article
June 2020
NPR Sponsorship Results for a University During COVID-19
NPR listeners are planning to make college decisions. A university that sponsored NPR this spring saw their radio campaign generate significant differentiation in awareness, opinion and perceptions of the university.
