A perspective piece from The Listening Market On a Saturday afternoon in a bookshop in the inner west, a woman in her late twenties holds a novel open at its first page and does

A perspective piece from The Listening Market A nurse finishing a night shift climbs into her car, and instead of queueing a podcast, she presses the first radio preset. A voice she has never

A perspective piece from The Listening Market By half past seven on a Wednesday night, the back room of an ordinary suburban pub has filled past capacity, and nobody in it is looking at

A perspective piece from The Listening Market In 2026, a cinema in Sydney devoted an entire season to films released between 1982 and 1996, and tickets sold faster than for its new-release programme. A

A perspective piece from The Listening Market The way people fill their quiet hours has been changing for a while, but the shift has become difficult to ignore. Where the default background of daily

A perspective piece from The Listening Market On a Friday night in 2026, a growing number of people are not at a bar, a cinema, or scrolling through a streaming service. They are sitting

A perspective piece from The Listening Market A sold-out stadium fills with strangers who have nothing in common except a shared anticipation. A comedy club audience leans forward in the dark, waiting for the

A perspective piece from The Listening Market There was a time when discovering a film meant something. It meant browsing the shelves of a video shop on a Friday evening, reading the back of

A perspective piece from The Listening Market The average attention span of a goldfish is approximately nine seconds. This statistic, repeated so often it has taken on the quality of folklore, has been used

There was a period, not so long ago, when the death of the physical book felt inevitable. E-readers had arrived with the promise of carrying an entire library in a device the size of