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CarPlay & Android Auto listening grows in the US

23/09/2025

Connected Dashboards Growing As of Q2 2025, just over one-third of Americans (13+) have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto in their primary vehicle, according to Edison Research’s Share of Ear survey. Among those who have that tech and have driven in the past month, 83% use it regularly. What Drivers Are Listening To Even with CarPlay or Android Auto, AM/FM radio leads Among US drivers with CarPlay or Android Auto, 47% of in-car listening still […]

More Americans now listen to audio on their TVs

15/07/2025

More Americans now listen to audio on their TVs with YouTube taking up over half of this time according to a recent blog post by Edison Research. Using their Share of Ear survey that measures the full audio space it shows how much music the average American listens to in a typical day using a nationally representative sample of those aged 13+ surveyed in Q2 2025. While less of a dominant force in media consumption than it once […]

Most podcast listening is at home

07/03/2025

Most podcast listening is at home with 67% of total daily podcast consumption in the US according to a recent blog post by Edison Research. Using their Share of Ear survey that measures the full audio space it shows how much music the average American listens to in a typical day using a nationally representative sample of those aged 13+ surveyed in Q4 2024. Besides the reality that people spend by far the most amount of their time […]

Americans still listen to music on the radio

16/12/2024

Americans still listen to music on the radio for 32% of their music listening time according to a recent blog post by Edison Research. Using their Share of Ear survey that measures the full audio space it shows how much music the average American listens to in a typical day using a nationally representative sample of those aged 13+ surveyed in Q3 2024. The survey shows that listeners in the US spend 74% of their average daily audio time listening […]

29% of US motorists listen to audio on their phones

12/12/2024

29% of US motorists listen to audio on their phones according to a recent blog post by Edison Research. Using their Share of Ear survey that measures the full audio space and how much the audio average American consumes in a typical day using a nationally representative sample of those aged 13+. In 2014, only 15% of in-car audio users listened on their phones in the car. Today that number has nearly doubled, and now 29% of the US population […]

Podcast listening by US Latinos is booming

14/10/2024

Podcast listening by US Latinos is booming with over a third more time spent than the non-Latino population according to a recent report by Edison Research. According to their Share of Ear research, persons 13 or older who identify as Hispanic or Latino spend an average of nearly five hours listening to audio each day, while the non-Latino population consumes 3 hours and 55 minutes — more than a one-hour difference. In 2014, podcasting was just […]

Americans still listen to AM/FM radio

08/02/2024

Americans still listen to AM/FM radio for 36% of their daily audio time according to a recent blog post by Edison Research. Using their Share of Ear survey that measures the full audio space and how much the audio average American consumes in a typical day using a nationally representative sample of those aged 13+. The chart above shows the Q4 2023 data for the Share of Ear Audio Dial, which shows the percentage of daily listening that […]