ore than 70,000 people have been killed in northe fighting.The podcast is the star medium of 2021! And it is since a few years that the podcast rises in power and tends to become THE media of influence. We've put together a list of the 20 most listened-to podcasts in France in 2021.
In 2021, the CPMA welcomed 122 new podcasts to the French podcast rankings; the number of podcasts now stands at 278. Also in 2021, the CPMA monitored and certified 181 million podcast downloads of which 141 million were in France.
The podcast Culture Générale des Choses à Savoir is once again at the top of the podium of most listened to podcasts in 2021 according to ACPM figures.
In second place is the podcast Transfert from Slate with more than 745 thousand listens in France. Transfert gains one place compared to the year 2020. Every week, this podcast tells a true, exciting, gripping, moving story by couples who give themselves up in complete intimacy.
And in third place was the podcast Source Code by Le Parisien with over 575,000 listens in France. Stories in the news told by Le Parisien journalists, and by those who have experienced them directly. Code Source is a podcast presented by Jules Lavie, with reports by Clawdia Prolongeau, from Monday to Friday, to be listened to from 6pm.
Médiamétrie has released a study on podcast listening in 2021. We'll show you the key figures for this year, which will be rich in podcast downloads!
Which audience listens to podcasts?
Young people aged 15 to 34 are the ones who listen to podcasts the most in 2021! Médiamétrie indicates that their professional situation corresponds to CSP+ (executives, company managers, etc.).
New prescribers! Indeed, through their parents, children also listen to podcasts: 68% of parents have their children listen to podcasts.
According to a study by Acast, podcasts account for 60% of advertising investments.
IT and technology: 14%.
Banking and insurance with 11%.
Food and beverages with 9%.
"The figures for 2021 confirm the positioning of the podcast as the new medium of influence and proximity on which advertisers can rely," explains Yann Thébault, Managing Director of Acast France and Germany.
I just want to go back to restricting.

It’s been literally 4 days since I started recovering again, and I already want out. It’s horrible, I have zero practical support and realistically I should be in residential right now but my team - although they acknowledge that it might be helpful for me - refuses to start a referral because the waiting list is too long. I’m finding OP treatment super unhelpful and so I think that I’m going to discharge AMA later this week because I cannot keep having daily anxiety attacks over my weekly appointments. I hate having to be completely responsible for my food all the time, it makes giving into the ED pretty easy and it feel really overwhelming and exhausting to be dealing with having complete control over my intake. 

I broke one of my major food rules tonight and I feel horrible, I ended up relapsing back into exercising as a means of purging although I wasn’t able to do much as I nearly fainted. I also went out earlier today and bought a lot of food because I had literally nothing besides a few safe foods in the house. I bought things I was craving, a lot of highly palatable foods. But I just read a recovery forum thread that said I should avoid highly palatable foods for at least a year into recovery in order to avoid a binge/restrict cycle or a binge/purge cycle.

Recovery feels really confusing and I’m so torn because I feel like I get conflicting information from everywhere. People telling me to eat without restriction, others telling me to eat with moderate restriction (focus on healthy eating and eating what would be considered normal portions even if they don’t satisfy me), it feels like every piece of guidance surrounding how to recovery always also had a conflicting piece of guidance. Plus I’m really struggling to deal with the bloating (and I know it’s gets worse because I’m barely managing 3 small-ish meals and a snack right now). Restricting was so much easier, at least it gave me a little headspace because right now all I’m thinking about are my disordered thoughts, it gave me something to do everyday. It’s likely I’ll relapse away when I move away to university next year. So maybe trying now is pointless especially if it leads me back here eventually.Founder of Trifecta Consultants and a veteran trader with over 25 years of trading experience.
Oil and gas markets are facing their third price collapse in the last 12 years. While markets have recovered from the price collapses of 2008 and 2015, we have to acknowledge that this price collapse is rather different from the previous two.
In each of the prior instances, prices started falling on their own and market perceptions about both supply and demand changed rapidly.
The usual parties are using the usual methods to bolster prices. While this has worked to some extent, how effective it will be in the short and medium-term continues to be a question to ponder.
If we take a look at weekly price action, we can see that prices were seriously challenged even before the onset of COVID 19. This could have arguably been caused by the Saudis deciding to flood the markets with material.
The markets started getting jarred by COVID 19 towards the end of February with the infamous ‘negative settlement’ of WTI hitting the markets in the middle of April. Subsequently, Saudi Arabia decided to change tack and resorted to its time-tested methodology of supply cuts pulling the market up to the $40bbl mark.
From the start of September, concerns about the resurgence of COVID have been hammering prices and they appear to have been supported largely by storm activity and the promise by Saudi to extend cuts. Nevertheless, not even such promises are pushing Brent prices over $44bbl. Why?
Over the past several years, the only way prices have actually found support is by suppliers agreeing to cut down production. Having said that, at no time over the past several years were refiners forced to shut operations because of the unavailability of oil. The situation persists even today.
Prices have also been propped thanks to the lenient monetary policies being followed worldwide. The excess money available is parked in many global asset classes, including energy. This time around, any supply shortage of crude fails to worry because there is a severe demand shortfall for products. Further, the shutting down of production means that there is spare capacity available for the future should it be needed. Hence the specter of supply shortfall fails to scare people as much as it used to in the past.
Over the past six months, the way the world has been doing business has been changing rapidly. The work-from-home culture that has been necessitated due to COVID has shown several benefits which will make a significant portion continue to stay in place even after the virus scare subsides. This will lead to reduced discretionary and even non-discretionary travel going forward.
The other aspect of discretionary travel, i.e. tourism is going to get hit even worse as the senior citizenry is going to be even more wary of travel than before. And all this presumes that COVID will recede soon.
How Long Does COVID Last?
We have been watching every attempt to emerge from lockdowns being met with fresh surges of the pandemic. We have been hearing stories of vaccines being made available all around the world. What is the truth? Are we anywhere near a cure?
The answer to that has to be a resounding NO. Even while the vaccine will be administered, it will be at least 6-12 months to evaluate the efficacy of each vaccine and even longer to establish a standard treatment for the disease. So, I don’t think we have any scope for immediate joy on that front.
Why, Then, Are Prices Supported?
We could go on analyzing further, but no matter what line we choose, the outlook for the immediate future looks bleak.
Basically, markets are holding on grimly to hope that demand will recover and we can go back to business as usual sooner rather than later. In that, they are helped by the extremely easy monetary policy being followed globally which suggests that stock markets are performing even better after 6 months of the COVID disaster than before.
Is It Really All That Gloomy?
Notwithstanding the grim picture painted above, there are a few bright spots about the markets today. The first factor to note is that refining margins appear to be looking up and the forward curve for November seems to indicate a sharp recovery in refining margins. The major reason for this has been the petrochemical market has been holding firm and, in turn, has been keeping naphtha cracks at two-year highs.
The other factor is that people have got to come and face the virus and beat it. Because we cannot hide forever and hope to win. It may take a quarter or two for demand to bounce back from the present abysmal levels, but bounce back it will!
Sukrit Vijayakar is the founder of Trifecta Consultants and a veteran trader with over 25 years of trading experience. He delivers regular oil market commentary from his website and social media channels and has appeared on Asia TV as an authority on energy markets. Sukrit provides industry training, energy software selection, and IT consultant services. Visit the Trifecta Consultants website.Posters are forms of art. And art can be an expression of self (or a great way to gain attention and