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There's no good way to get that data: podcasts are RSS feeds. You see IPs and user agents. How do they know who's a 30 year old male making $70,000? You an try to match IPs with advertising databases, but good luck getting any sort of real signal out of that. That data is all inferred anyway. Hell, I bet my cell phone has two dozen IPs over the course of an average day as I connect to various wifi networks and Fi switches carriers.

As it damn well should be.

That said, it's only a matter of time before carriers start tracking and selling this data.



Nobody sells this raw data, they sell the ability to use it by running ads on their platform, and that has been offered already for a decade.




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