Relationship between audiobook consumption and other audio content

Determine how audiobook consumption relates to other audio content types such as podcasts and music, characterizing the connections between these consumption behaviors to inform cross-content recommendation strategies at scale.

Background

The paper positions audiobooks within both the literary domain and the broader talk-audio ecosystem, noting that audiobooks share consumption contexts with podcasts and music. Despite this, the precise relationship between how users consume audiobooks and other audio content types had not been established.

Understanding these cross-content relationships is important for leveraging established user interactions (e.g., podcast listening) to mitigate audiobook data sparsity and improve recommendations when introducing a new content type on an existing platform.