Podcasts Archives

40.3% of Americans listen to podcasts regularly

31/01/2024

40.3% of Americans listen to podcasts regularly with a 12% growth in the number of listeners in the past 2 years according to Triton Digital. Triton Digital’s U.S. Year-End Podcast Report provides key insights into the growing US podcast landscape over the course of 2023. Key findings from the U.S. Year-End Podcast Report The number of monthly podcast listeners in the US has increased by 12% in the past 2 years. 40.3% of the US population are monthly […]

Spotify’s Gen Z users streamed 560 Bn songs in first half of 2023

23/10/2023

Spotify’s Gen Z users streamed 560 Bn songs in first half of 2023 according to Spotify’s annual Gen Z trend report – Culture Next Volume 05. The report based on an international survey of Gen Z (15-24) Spotify users as well as their Millennial (25-40) counterparts in June 2023. In the first half of 2023, Gen Z listened to over 560 Bn songs and more than 3 Bn podcast episodes — a 76% increase over […]

RTL+ gets entertainment upgrade

10/08/2023

RTL+ gets entertainment upgrade making it an all-inclusive multimedia app with Deezer continuing to provide it with music streaming. The new service from RTL Germany will include TV series, reality TV, live sports, films, music, audio books and podcasts. The package includes over 55,000 hours of video and TV entertainment, over 120 million music titles, more than 100,000 audio books and radio plays from top publishers and authors, as well as several thousand podcast formats, […]

Gen Z Americans discover podcasts through social media

25/06/2023

Gen Z Americans discover podcasts through social media with 24 million regular monthly listeners according to a recent report from Edison Research in partnership with  SXM Media. The Gen Z Podcast Listener Report is based on a survey of 1003 US individuals aged between 13 and 24 during April 2023 plus a number of in-depth interviews. Key findings from the report 47% of the Gen Z (age 13-24) online population in the US are monthly podcast listeners, […]

Enlighten Radio

02/06/2023

Enlighten Radio is an internet radio station with an eclectic mix of ‘Progressive Rebel Radio, Talk, Stories, Science, Jazz, Blues and Bluegrass from the Red Caboose Studio in West Virginia, USA’. It used to broadcast a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream both as a direct link and a webplayer but this has been downgraded to a 128kbps MP3 stream. The website has recently been updated to include a programme guide (in blogroll format) to help […]

Podcasts are now on YouTube Music

01/05/2023

Podcasts are now on YouTube Music with an initial launch in the US with global availability promised ‘soon’. The feature started being rolled out at the end of last week and is expected to reach all US listeners shortly. This update allows those watching podcasts on the main app to continue listening to them on YouTube Music. Listeners can enjoy podcasts on-demand, offline, in the background, while casting and seamlessly switch between audio-video versions on […]

43% of Black Americans are monthly podcast listeners

24/02/2023

43% of Black Americans are monthly podcast listeners with 75% of listeners actively seeking out content that focuses on Black stories and perspectives. These findings are part of The Black Podcast Listener Report 2.0 from Edison Research in partnership with  SXM Media and Mindshare based on a survey of over 2,500 Black Americans age 18+. Key findings from the report 43% of the Black 18+ population in the US has listened to a podcast in the last month. That percentage is larger than the number […]