The Digital New Report 2019 explores the demographics of podcast listening, as well as the most popular types of podcast, the preferred locations for podcast use, and some of the motivations for listening to these episodic audio experiences.
“That’s the biggest growth we’ve seen, and we’ve been covering podcasts since 2006,” Edison SVP Tom Webster told the Times. “I think we hit a tipping point.” Indeed, a tipping point is probably true, though, in more ways than one.
Podcasting shows explosive year-over-year growth as gains in spoken-word audio mark the 2019 Infinite Dial Study by Edison Research and Triton Digital®.
Let’s call it the beginning of the Golden Age of Podcasts—a marked increase in the amount and quality of original audio programming.
Let’s call it the beginning of the Golden Age of Podcasts—a marked increase in the amount and quality of original audio programming.
Experiment between a professor and a university press examines the question: can a podcast be academic research?
In our frenetic age, audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion. But this intimacy can become manipulative.
Although radio is still the dominant audio platform (88% of Australians aged 12+ having listened to AM/FM/DAB+ in the last week, up from 85% and outpacing the U.S.’s 65%), more and more people are turning to podcasts…
Some key statistics we have gathered around podcasting.
The United States is quickly becoming a podcast nation. According to a 2017 survey, nearly 25 percent of Americans—around 68 million—said they listened to podcasts. Forty-two percent were even willing to pay to do so.
The ABC’s third annual Podcast Survey results show that 9 out of 10 Australian adults (91%) are now aware of podcasts, while one in three (33%) claimed to have listened to a podcast in the past month.
