Apps used to listen to podcasts in the U.S. 2019-2020
Growing market for podcasts
The term podcast, the name being a merge of the words play on demand and broadcast, refers to audio or video content in episodic formats that can be streamed or downloaded digitally. Topics cover a huge range of interests such as politics, health, or true crime; however, a study found that the most popular podcast genre in the United States was comedy. With 75.9 million podcast listeners in the United States alone, podcasting has become a large market within the audio sector.
Podcast consumption
Despite the growing podcast audience, the consumption among listeners is relatively low with 11 percent of consumers stating that they listen to podcasts less often than once a month. The relatively new audio format is preferred by younger generations, with 20 percent of the age group of 18 to 34 years having paid to access podcasts.
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August 2020
United States
February 2020
2,012 respondents
18 years and older
survey participants were internet users
Missing figures were not provided by the source.
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