The commercial radio industry’s advanced ad buying platform RadioMATRIX has processed more than 1 billion items of radio inventory since launch in October 2017, according to figures released by industry body Commercial Radio Australia.

The Australian Podcast Ranker now incorporates popular US titles including iHeartPodcast Network’s “Stuff You Should Know” and “DISGRACELAND” and Stitcher’s “Freakonomics Radio” and Oprah Winfrey’s “SuperSoul Conversations”.

Australian commercial radio continues to attract listeners, with almost 10.9 million people listening each week across the five metropolitan capital cities in 2019, a 1.4% increase from 2018 and up 9.7% in the last five years.