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Title: Americans Listen to Podcasts More Than Talk Radio Now, Study Shows

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/01/0542...

"Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular
medium for spoken-word audio in the United States," reports TechCrunch,
citing Edison Research's Share of Ear survey: The researchers have tracked
these statistics over the last decade, and almost always, the percentage of
time people spent listening to podcasts increased, while their time with
spoken radio broadcasts decreased. For the first time this year, podcasts
eclipsed spoken-word radio with 40% of listening time, as opposed to 39% for
radio... We checked with Edison to see if these statistics include video
podcasts, and they do. But the need to clarify that question points to the
undeniable growing prevalence of video podcasts, hosted on platforms like
Spotify and YouTube, which marks another key trend in podcasting... YouTube
said that viewers watched 700 million hours of podcasts each month in 2025 on
living room devices, like TVs, up from 400 million the previous year.

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