Invasion of the Pod(cast) People
CCJ offers a status report on the podcast universe
Do you ever listen to podcast?
According to a site called Podcast Host: “Listenership continues to grow, with a 9% climb over the past three years! On top of this data, the Share of Ear study by Edison Research indicates that podcasts now occupy 9% of Americans’ total audio consumption time, with an all-time high 31% of all spoken word audio listening going to podcasts.”
Here is a table charting podcast growth since 2019.
So what are all these people watching? It is a lineup of comedy, crime, and conspiracy, judging by these top tens:
SPOTIFY
- Joe Rogan Experience
- What Now with Trevor Noah
- The President’s Daily Brief
- New Heights
- This Past Weekend
- The Ultimate Human
- We’re Here to Help
- Hot Mess with Alix Earle
- Huberman Lab
APPLE
- The Bakersfield Three
- New Heights
- Who Killed JFK?
- Crime Junkie
- The Daily
- What Now? with Trevor Noah
- Dateline NBC
- The Kids of Rutherford County
- SmartLess
- Tosh Show
CHARTABLE