Dosdoce’s Javier Celaya challenges the Spanish-language publishing industry to expand its share of a fast-widening audio ‘ecosystem.’

A Challenge to Spanish-Language Book Publishers

In the latest of his reports capturing his analysis of the Spanish-language audio industry’s potential, Dosdoce founder Javier Celaya in Bilbao builds on his January summary, today (March 23) releasing a new look at the audio industry and audiobooks. He calls it his first Map of the Spanish Audio Industry Ecosystem.

As before, Celaya is relying for many predictions on the PcC Spain report (PricewaterhouseCoopers International), Entertainment and Media Outlook 2022-2026 España. This is where he gets some of his top-line expectations, including one that sees the Spanish audio industry by 2026 reaching 26.6 million listeners, generating €590 million (US$642 million) “through advertising, branded content, subscription revenues,” and more.

But while reminding us in January that within “a few years,” this industry has “created more than 100,000 podcasts and nearly 25,000 audiobooks in Spanish,” today’s Celayan analysis looks at “the nearly 400 entities that represent this new industry.”

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