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Understand who's really in your audience, what content pulls them in, and how to earn what they're actually worth. The first read is free and needs nothing from you.

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Audience intelligence audit

your show

Your category · Your cadence · Hosted by you · Styled from your own cover art

Layer 1Audience

Who's listening

Who they are, what they do, why it matters to them, why they press play, and when they listen.

One cross-platform picture — reach, engagement and audience quality in a single view, instead of four dashboards.

Built from your own platform analytics — you'll be asked to share access or screenshots from wherever you host and post.

Plain-language reading after every section — you're never left interpreting a chart on your own.

A clear picture of what this tells you about your audience — and what it doesn't yet.

What you walk away with

You'll be able to describe your audience out loud — in a pitch, on a call, or in an email.

Layer 2Content

Grow & improve

What's working across your catalogue, what your audience still needs, and what to make next.

Discoverability read — your name, titles, topics and presence, as a new listener finds them.

What's working across your catalogue — and why it works, not just that it does.

Fully-worked content ideas built on the gaps between what your audience needs and what you've made.

What’s resonating right now — a read on your most recent episodes, and in the full audit your strongest and weakest across the whole catalogue.

What you walk away with

You'll know what to make next and why — instead of guessing at topics or guests and hoping it works.

Layer 3Monetisation

Earn what you're worth

Your commercial position, the brands already sitting in your audience, and the document that gets you paid.

Your commercial positioning — where your audience sits on reach × relationship, what that makes you worth to an advertiser, and which route fits: programmatic, host reads, sponsorship or partnership.

A creative strategy for monetisation — named brands whose customers are already in your audience, each with a worked brief.

An advertiser kit you can send — your audience, your evidence, your rates and your revenue gap in pounds, in one document built for the person on the other side of the pitch.

What you walk away with

Something you can actually send a brand — your positioning, an idea and an audience view, instead of a screenshot of your download stats.

Free or full

Start free. Go deeper when you want to.

The difference between the two isn't effort — it's how much we can see. The free audit reads what's publicly visible about your show. The full audit reads that and your own analytics, together.

Free audit
£0
One read · no card · nothing to set up
Public data only
    What you get
  • The audience read — who is listening, in plain language
  • Cross-platform snapshot — your reach across audio, video and social in one view
  • Discoverability — your name, titles and topics as a new listener finds them
  • What’s resonating — a read on your three most recent episodes
  • Three things to do this week
  • Not included · Layer 1 audience
  • Real demographics — age, gender, location and audience segments
  • Returning versus new listeners
  • Where your listeners genuinely come from, platform by platform
  • All eight fifth:sense scores, benchmarked against your category
  • Not included · Layer 2 content
  • Retention and drop-off, episode by episode
  • Top and least performing episodes across your whole catalogue
  • Clip and repurpose map for short-form
  • A 90-day content roadmap
  • Not included · Layer 3 monetisation
  • Your position on reach × relationship, and which route fits
  • Named brands whose customers are already listening, with worked briefs
  • Membership and product plan, with pricing
  • The advertiser kit you can send, with your rates
  • Your revenue gap, in pounds
  • Not included
  • A walkthrough, so you’re not left reading it alone
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A worked example

This is the free audit. The blurred parts are the full one.

A free audit for a fictional show, Trading Hours — a weekly food and drink business podcast. Click through the three layers. Everything sharp is what you get for nothing; everything blurred is what your own analytics unlock.

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Audience intelligence audit · Free

Trading Hours

Food & Drink Business · Weekly · Hosted by Nadia Okonjo · Audit run July 2026 · Styled from the show's own cover art · Illustrative example

9,400
Combined cross-platform audience
168,000
Total plays to date
94
Episodes — 24 months, never missed a week
41 min
Average episode length
4.9 ★
38 ratings across Apple & Spotify
25 + 50
Beyond audio — video episodes + clips
Top 5%
Of all podcasts in its category by downloads per episode
6.1%
Instagram engagement — 3× category median
In your free audit In the full audit, £599
Layer 1Audience

Who's listening

The one thing to know

Trading Hours is one of very few shows where the person listening owns the business. Not aspiring to, not working in one — signing the lease and doing the payroll. The episodes that pull hardest are the ones with real figures in them: rent, margins, what a bad December actually costs. Listeners arrive during setup and stay through the first two years of trading, which is the exact window when every supplier decision gets made for the first time. This is a small audience of people with buying authority.

Real demographics
Owner-operators, 32–4861%
London & South East44%
Trading under 2 years38%
Exact age, gender, location and audience segments — measured from your own analytics, not estimated In the full audit
New versus returning listeners

Returning listeners: 64% — well above the category norm of 41%.

How many of your listeners come back, and how that compares to your category In the full audit
Your eight fifth:sense scores
Audience Quality — Top 8% of category
Engagement & Loyalty — Top 15%
Commercial Value — Top 12%
Content Appetite — Above average
All eight scores, benchmarked against shows of your size in your category In the full audit
Layer 2Content

Grow & improve

Your name — "Trading Hours" does two jobs at once: it says retail, and it says the hours nobody sees. A new listener knows the show is about running the business, not dreaming about it.

Your titles — figure-led and specific. The episodes naming a real number in the title are the ones being shared. That's a repeatable format, not a run of luck.

Staying on topic — 94 episodes across 24 months without drifting from the subject. A tight editorial spine, and rarer than it sounds.

Where you show up — audio, 25 video episodes and 50 clips, with Instagram engagement at three times the category median. The social side is doing more work than the audio numbers suggest.

Three things to do this week
1 · Put the numbers in the titlesFree read
2 · Group your first-year episodes as a starting point for new listenersFree read
3 · Say who listens in your show description — owners, not aspiring ownersFree read
What’s resonating · your last three episodes
Ep 94trading
hours
What a bad December actually costs
12 July44 minMost saved of the three

The figure in the title is doing the work. It names a fear owners already have, and it was saved more than it was shared — people are keeping it to come back to.

Ep 93trading
hours
The supplier who put their prices up 22%
5 July39 minMost shared of the three

Shared far more than it was saved. A specific number and a clear antagonist travels further than advice does — this is the one that reached people who don’t follow you.

Ep 92trading
hours
Hiring your first full-timer
28 June43 minStrongest finish rate

People who started it finished it, but fewer started. The title names the topic without naming the stakes — the episode is stronger than its packaging.

The pattern across the month: episodes with a real number in the title outperform episodes that name only a topic. That is a repeatable format, not a run of luck.
Top and least performing episodes, across all 94
Best — Ep 61 · “The month we nearly went under”
Best — Ep 44 · “What our rent actually is”
Weakest — Ep 78 · “A chat about hospitality trends”
Weakest — Ep 30 · “Our year in review”
Your whole catalogue ranked — the episodes that pull hardest and the ones that don’t, so you know which format to repeat and which to drop In the full audit
Retention and drop-off, episode by episode

68% still listening at the midpoint. Biggest single drop at 24 minutes.

Where each episode loses attention, so you fix the leak instead of guessing In the full audit
Which themes pull hardest, and which episodes convert
Real margins and rentTop decile
Hiring the first employeeStrong
Supplier negotiationStrong
Which themes pull hardest across the catalogue, and which episodes turn new listeners into regulars In the full audit
Clip map and 90-day content roadmap
Weeks 1–2 — cut the figures segments as standalone clips
Weeks 3–6 — the "first employee" series
Weeks 7–12 — supplier negotiation, with a named brand attached
Where to cut for short-form, and what to make for the next three months In the full audit
Layer 3Monetisation

Earn what you're worth

The whole of layer three sits in the full audit. This is what it contains for Trading Hours — the headings are real, the detail is what you're paying for.

Your commercial position

Targeted reach × community — the value exchange quadrant. Brand partnership and membership fit; programmatic undersells this audience badly.

Where your audience sits on reach × relationship, and which route actually fits In the full audit
Named brands already in your audience, with worked briefs
Hospitality EPOS and payments — 4 named brands
Commercial insurance for independents — 3 named brands
Wholesale and supply platforms — 5 named brands
The brands whose customers are demonstrably listening, each with a brief you can send In the full audit
Membership and product plan
A paid tier for owners in their first two years of trading
Suggested pricing, and what to put behind it
Revenue you own outright, with pricing In the full audit
Your advertiser kit, and your revenue gap

£1,140 / month

The difference between what this audience is worth and what the show earns today.

A document you can send a brand, and what you're leaving on the table each month in pounds In the full audit

The free audit gives you layers one and two in part. The full audit unblurs everything above, built from your own analytics.

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Trading Hours is an illustrative example, not a real show. Figures shown are for demonstration.
How it works

Three steps, no dashboards to learn.

1

Ask for it

Tell us where to find your show, and whether you want the free read or the full audit.

2

Share your analytics

Only for the full audit. Share access or screenshots from wherever you host and post — that's the only homework. The free read needs nothing from you.

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Get your layers

Audience, content and monetisation, translated into plain language, with a plan you can act on immediately.

After the audit

Knowing what you're worth, and then earning it.

The audit tells you what your audience is worth. Goodies is how you get paid for it.

The audit

Find out what you're sitting on

Three layers — audience, content and monetisation — so you can describe your audience, know what to make next, and put a number on what a brand should pay.

  • Free from public data, or £599 with your own analytics
  • Named brands whose customers already listen
  • An advertiser kit you can send
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Goodies

Start or increase your revenue within 30 days

Brands fund gifts for your listeners. You hand them over, your listeners keep them in one place, and you earn when they buy.

  • No download minimums, no rate card
  • Chosen on how much your audience trusts you
  • You keep earning on repeat purchases
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Audience intelligence audit · Audience · Content · Monetisation

You know how many people listen. You don't know who they are.

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