Podcast Statistics 2026: 101 Stats on Listeners and Revenue

Key Takeaways

• Monthly US podcast reach hit 58% in 2026, an all-time high, and 45% of Americans 12+ consumed a podcast in the last week. Both records, both from Edison’s Infinite Dial 2026.
• “Podcast” no longer means one thing, and the IAB says so in its own report. Its 2025 revenue figure counts the traditional audio definition while noting that video is now the leading channel for podcast consumption. Any single number you quote is measuring one slice.
• Video is not replacing audio, it is stacked on top of it. 80% of the monthly US podcast audience aged 18 and over both watched and listened in Triton’s 2025 survey. Only 7% watched without listening.
• US podcast ad revenue reached $2.86 billion in 2025, up 17.6%, which is still under 1% of US internet ad revenue.
• The median Buzzsprout podcast gets 27 downloads per episode in its first week. The top 10% threshold is 407. The gap between the median podcast and the top-1% threshold is a factor of roughly 168.
• AI is reshaping the supply side well before the demand side. Listen Notes rejected 59,816 AI-generated fake podcasts in twelve months, and new human-made shows have fallen every month since January 2026, from 20,177 in January to 7,442 in August.

Top Podcast Statistics for 2026

These five podcasting statistics frame the medium this year: 58% monthly reach, 3.81 million podcasts, $2.86 billion in US ad revenue, more than 1 billion monthly YouTube podcast viewers and 80% of the audience both watching and listening.

• 58% of Americans aged 12 and over, about 167 million people, consumed a podcast in the last month, an all-time high (Edison Research at SSRS, The Infinite Dial 2026, n=2,050 aged 12+).
• There are 3,808,189 podcasts and 193,508,252 episodes in the world (Listen Notes, dataset updated 5 September 2026).
• US podcast advertising revenue reached $2,862.2 million in 2025, up 17.6% year on year (IAB and PwC, Internet Advertising Revenue Report Full-Year 2025).
• YouTube reports more than 1 billion monthly viewers of podcast content, a figure it first published in February 2025 (YouTube).
• 80% of the monthly US podcast audience aged 18 and over both watched and listened to podcasts across Q2 and Q3 2025 (Triton Digital, U.S. Podcast Report 2025, Demos+ survey of 6,000+ listeners aged 18+).

How Many Podcasts Are There in 2026

It depends who’s counting and what they refuse to count. That isn’t a dodge, it’s the whole story of podcast measurement in 2026.

Total Podcast Count by Database

Listen Notes says rival databases inflate their counts with deleted, empty, AI-generated and PDF-only feeds (Listen Notes).

• Podcast Index, which filters less aggressively, lists 4,728,233 feeds against Listen Notes’ 3,808,189 (Podcast Index, as of 9 September 2026). The gap is definitional, not an error.
• 2,314,585 podcasts are in English, with Spanish second at 395,960 and Portuguese third at 221,784 (Listen Notes).
• 2,405,003 podcasts originate in the United States, 63.2% of the catalogue. Brazil is second with 209,223 and Indonesia third with 145,568 (Listen Notes, share calculated from the published totals).

How Many Podcasts Are Still Active

Most of the catalogue is dormant, and new launches have never come close to the 2020 peak.

• 547,671 podcasts have been active in 2026, meaning 2026 is the most recent year in which they published anything (Listen Notes).
• That is 14.4% of the catalogue. The other 85.6% published nothing at all in 2026 (Listen Notes, share calculated from the published totals).
• Launches peaked in 2020 at 1,020,457 new shows during the pandemic, up from 335,108 in 2019, then fell to 751,422 in 2021 and to 252,702 in 2022, a two-thirds collapse in twelve months that the medium has never recovered from (Listen Notes).
• Launches have stayed between 200,000 and 240,000 a year since: 237,290 in 2023, 200,937 in 2024 and 210,645 in 2025, with 102,516 in 2026 through early September (Listen Notes).

New Human-Made Podcasts Are Falling Every Month

Listen Notes publishes something no other database does: a monthly split between the human podcasts it accepted and the AI-generated fakes it threw out.

• New human-made podcasts have fallen every month since January 2026: 20,177 in January, 17,221 in February, 16,742 in March, 11,799 in April, 10,282 in May, 9,632 in June, 8,319 in July and 7,442 in August (Listen Notes).
• Listen Notes removed 59,816 AI-generated fake podcasts in the twelve months from September 2025 to August 2026 (Listen Notes, monthly figures summed).
• In February 2026 it rejected 8,144 AI fakes against 17,221 genuine new shows, so roughly a third of everything submitted that month was synthetic (Listen Notes).
• The ratio has barely moved. In August 2026, 3,419 of the 10,861 new feeds submitted were removed as AI-generated, 31.5% against February’s 32.1% (Listen Notes).

Podcast Hosting Platforms by Number of Shows

One free host carries more than half of all podcasts, and the rest is spread thin.

• Anchor, now Spotify for Creators, is the RSS host for 2,007,968 podcasts, more than half of everything Listen Notes indexes (Listen Notes).
• Buzzsprout hosts 255,460, Spreaker 148,757, Podbean 145,280, SoundCloud 125,371 and Libsyn 104,203 (Listen Notes).
• Buzzsprout alone had 112,207 active podcasts on its platform in August 2026, publishing 142,781 new episodes that month (Buzzsprout).
• Those Buzzsprout shows generated 79,530,369 downloads in August 2026 (Buzzsprout).

If you’re choosing where to put a show, I’ve compared the platforms in detail in our roundup of the best podcast hosting platforms, and there’s a separate list of no-cost hosting options if you want to test the format before paying for it.

Most Popular Podcast Genres by Show Count

The genres with the most shows are not the ones that top the listening charts.

• Society and Culture is the largest podcast genre at 686,315 shows, followed by Education at 619,231 and Business at 469,872 (Listen Notes).
• Comedy, which dominates the listening charts, is only the seventh largest genre by number of shows at 312,121 (Listen Notes).
• Technology is smaller than most people assume at 121,864 shows, behind Leisure, Sports, Music, News and TV and Film (Listen Notes).

How Many People Listen to Podcasts in 2026

US Podcast Reach by Survey and Age

Edison’s 58% monthly figure is the headline, its ever-consumed and weekly measures set records too, and Triton’s survey shows reach falling steeply with age.

• 80% of Americans aged 12 and over, roughly 230 million people, have ever listened to or watched a podcast, an all-time high (Infinite Dial 2026).
• 45% of Americans 12+, about 130 million people, consumed a podcast in the last week, another all-time high (Infinite Dial 2026).
• 68% of 35 to 54 year olds consumed a podcast in the last month, the strongest monthly reach of any age band Edison reports (Infinite Dial 2026).
• Triton Digital measured monthly podcast reach at 53.6% of the total US population, which it frames as podcasting now reaching more than half the country (Triton Digital, U.S. Podcast Report 2025, general population survey data, Q2 2025).
• Among 18 to 34 year olds Triton put monthly reach at 68.7%, against 62.1% for 35 to 54s and 35.0% for the over-55s (Triton Digital, U.S. Podcast Report 2025, Q2 2025).

Edison and Triton disagree by roughly four points on monthly reach because they are different surveys run at different times, and because Triton changed its listening question in 2025 to acknowledge that a podcast can be consumed as audio or video (Triton Digital, U.S. Podcast Report 2025). Both are defensible. Neither is the whole picture.

Online Audio Listening Statistics

Podcasting sits inside a bigger online audio habit that now reaches four in five Americans.

• 81% of Americans 12+, about 233 million people, listened to online audio in the last month (Infinite Dial 2026).
• 76%, about 219 million, listened to online audio in the last week (Infinite Dial 2026).
• Monthly online audio listening among Americans aged 55 and over jumped from 52% in 2024 to 70% in 2026, a gain of 18 points in two years (Infinite Dial 2026).
• Nine in ten Americans 12+ have used YouTube, 84% use it monthly and 78% weekly (Infinite Dial 2026).

Podcast Awareness in 2020 vs 2026

Monthly listening has grown much faster than awareness since 2020.

• In 2020, 75% of Americans aged 12 and over, approximately 212 million people, were familiar with podcasting, up from 70% in 2019. Monthly listening at that point was 37%, or 104 million people (Edison Research and Triton Digital, The Infinite Dial 2020).
• Six years later monthly listening has gone from 37% to 58%, and the 104 million monthly consumers of 2020 have become 167 million (Infinite Dial 2026).
• 93% of Americans 12 and over are now familiar with at least one generative AI brand, which Edison notes is a level of awareness podcasting has not achieved after more than twenty years of measurement (Infinite Dial 2026).

Podcast Listener Habits and Time Spent Listening

Time Spent Listening to Podcasts Per Week

Heavy listeners carry the medium, and Edison’s heaviest cohort averages more than eleven hours a week.

• Weekly podcast listeners spent a mean of 7 hours 43 minutes a week with podcasts when Edison last published the figure in 2024 (Edison Research, The Podcast Consumer 2024).
• 23% of weekly podcast listeners spent 10 or more hours a week listening, on the same 2024 measurement (Edison Research, The Podcast Consumer 2024).
• Edison’s Super Listeners 2021 study, run with Ad Results Media and released in February 2022, defined its cohort as US adults 18 and over who listen to five or more hours of podcasts a week. That group averaged 11.2 hours a week (Edison Research and Ad Results Media, Podcasting’s Super Listeners 2021).
• 53% of those Super Listeners said their opinion of a company improves when it advertises on a podcast they regularly listen to, and 56% said hearing an ad on a podcast made them more likely to buy than hearing one anywhere else (Edison Research and Ad Results Media, Podcasting’s Super Listeners 2021, 2021 fielding).

The 2021 edition of this page put the number of avid US podcast fans at roughly 16 million. Edison’s Super Listeners cohort above is the closest thing Edison has measured.

Podcasts’ Share of Audio Listening Time

Podcasts have taken a real slice of listening time, but AM/FM radio still dominates ad-supported audio.

• Podcasts account for 11% of all time Americans aged 13 and over spend with audio, up from 2% in 2014 (Edison Research, The Podcast Consumer 2024, from Share of Ear Q2 to Q4 2023 and Q1 2024).
• Of ad-supported audio time specifically, podcasts took 20%, on the same Share of Ear window and the same US 13+ population (Edison Research, The Podcast Consumer 2024).
• AM/FM radio still holds 62% of ad-supported audio time among Americans 18 and over, against ad-supported Spotify’s 6% (Edison Research at SSRS, Share of Ear, July 2026).
• Share of Ear is a one-day listening diary fielded to 1,000 respondents aged 13 and over each quarter, which is the right sample to know about before quoting a single-point share figure (Edison Research at SSRS).

Podcast Listening Among AI Users

This is the cut that matters most if you’re selling to people who buy software.

• 57% of Americans 12+ have used a generative AI assistant, a milestone Edison notes took podcasting sixteen years to reach (Infinite Dial 2026).
• More than half of generative AI users are weekly podcast consumers, against roughly a third of people who do not use AI (Infinite Dial 2026).
• 87% of AI users listened to online audio in the last week, against 61% of non-users (Infinite Dial 2026).

Where People Listen to Podcasts: Apps and Devices

Most Popular Podcast Apps by Download Share

Apple Podcasts still leads Spotify on downloads from Buzzsprout-hosted shows.

• Apple Podcasts took 35.8% of Buzzsprout downloads in August 2026, 28,469,589 of them (Buzzsprout).
• Spotify took 28.8%, or 22,921,480 downloads (Buzzsprout).
• Web browsers accounted for 7.2%, ahead of Buzzsprout’s own embedded player at 3.5% (Buzzsprout).
• Castbox took 1.9%, Overcast 1.7%, Pocket Casts 1.3% and Podcast Addict 1.1% (Buzzsprout).
• Amazon Music, iHeartRadio and Amazon Echo each sat below 1% (Buzzsprout).

These are Buzzsprout’s hosted shows only, which skew independent and smaller. Treat this as one platform’s census, not a market share.

Podcast Listening Devices and Countries

Podcasts are a phone habit, and an iPhone habit in particular.

• 61.8% of Buzzsprout podcast downloads came from an Apple iPhone in August 2026 (Buzzsprout).
• Android phones accounted for 22.4% (Buzzsprout).
• 85.0% of downloads went to a mobile device, 8.0% to a computer, 0.6% to a smart speaker and 0.2% to a smart TV (Buzzsprout).
• The United States generated 52.0% of downloads, the UK 5.7%, Canada 4.4%, Australia 4.0%, Germany 3.0% and the Netherlands 2.7% (Buzzsprout).

How Podcast Downloads Are Measured

A download is a file request, not a human finishing an episode.

• Every Buzzsprout figure above complies with version 2.2 of the IAB Podcast Measurement Technical Guidelines, which is the only reason numbers from different hosts can be compared at all (Buzzsprout).
• Triton Digital’s Podcast Metrics is certified by the IAB Tech Lab to the same v2.2 standard (Triton Digital).
• Triton retired its monthly US Top Podcasts and Top Sales Networks rankers by weekly average users after the June 2025 reporting period. Its headline US ranker is now quarterly and survey-based (Triton Digital).
• Triton’s survey ranker uses 3,000 listeners per quarter, and its Demos+ product combines download data with a yearly survey of 12,000 monthly US podcast listeners aged 18 and over, run with Signal Hill Insights (Triton Digital).

Video Podcast Statistics: YouTube and Spotify

How Many People Watch Video Podcasts

Four in five podcast consumers now watch as well as listen, and only a small minority watch without listening.

• 13% of the monthly US podcast audience aged 18 and over listened only and 7% watched only, on Triton’s Q2 to Q3 2025 survey (Triton Digital, U.S. Podcast Report 2025).
• Roughly 71% of US podcast creators produced video versions of their shows in Sounds Profitable’s 2025 creator study (IAB and PwC, Internet Advertising Revenue Report Full-Year 2025, citing Sounds Profitable’s creator study).
• 57% of Americans 12+ have both listened to and watched a podcast (Infinite Dial 2026).

Edison’s Megan Lazovick framed the shift this way: “Video isn’t replacing podcast audio. It’s expanding the tent.” (Infinite Dial 2026).

YouTube Podcast Statistics

YouTube’s podcast viewing on TV screens is higher than it has ever been.

• YouTube repeated its figure of more than 1 billion monthly podcast viewers in May 2026 without raising it (YouTube).
• Viewers watched more than 700 million hours of podcasts on living room devices in October 2025, up from 400 million hours a year earlier (YouTube).
• YouTube Premium subscribers alone watched more than 800 million hours of podcasts in April 2026 (YouTube).

YouTube has never published how it decides a video is a podcast, so the 1 billion figure can’t be compared with Edison’s survey-based counts. It is a real number measuring a different thing.

Spotify Video Podcast Statistics

Spotify’s video push shows up most clearly in its costs.

• More than 500 million users have streamed a video podcast on Spotify, up nearly 50% year on year (Spotify Investor Day, May 2026).
• Spotify reported 777 million monthly active users and 300 million Premium subscribers for the quarter ended 30 June 2026 (Spotify, Form 6-K).
• Spotify closed 2025 with 751 million monthly active users and 290 million Premium subscribers, adding a record 38 million users in the fourth quarter (Spotify, Q4 2025 Form 6-K).
• Spotify does not publish how many video podcasts it carries, but it told investors that video podcast costs were the main drag on Premium gross margin in the fourth quarter of 2025 (Spotify, Q4 2025 Form 6-K).

Spotify stopped reporting podcast monthly active users as a separate line in 2023, so no current Spotify podcast audience figure exists.

Podcast Advertising Statistics and Revenue Growth

US Podcast Ad Revenue by Year

US podcast ad revenue has grown every year for a decade, and 2024 was the acceleration year.

• The ten-year series runs $105.7M in 2015, $169.1M, $313.9M, $479.1M, $708.1M, $842.3M, $1,448.7M, $1,825.3M, $1,925.2M, $2,433.1M and $2,862.2M in 2025 (IAB and PwC, Full-Year 2025).
• 2024 was the acceleration year, at $2,433.1M and 26.4% growth against 5.5% the year before (IAB and PwC, Full-Year 2024).
• Total US digital audio advertising revenue reached $8.4 billion in 2025, up 10.2% (IAB and PwC, Full-Year 2025).
• Total US internet advertising revenue was $294.6 billion in 2025, up 13.9% (IAB and PwC, Full-Year 2025).
• Podcast advertising is 0.97% of US internet ad revenue: $2.86 billion against $294.6 billion (IAB and PwC, Full-Year 2025, share calculated from the report’s totals).

Podcast Ad Rates, CPM and Ad Load

A host reading the ad themselves is worth roughly double the programmatic rate, and ad loads rose in Q4 2025.

• Baked-in host-read podcast ads run $24 to $26 CPM for a 60-second spot and $18 to $22 for a 30-second spot (Libsyn Ads).
• By category, host-read rates run Business $30, Health and Fitness $27, Technology $26, Education $26, Fiction $24, Science $23, Comedy $23, Society and Culture $23, Games $22 and Leisure $22 (Libsyn Ads).
• Dynamically inserted episodic ads run $18 to $22 CPM and programmatic runs $12 to $15 (Libsyn Ads).
• Libsyn prices a show on downloads in the first 30 days after publication, and the arithmetic is reach multiplied by CPM divided by 1,000 (Libsyn Ads).
• Podcast ad spend grew 32% year on year in the fourth quarter of 2025, with 1,482 brands advertising on podcasts for the first time (Magellan AI).
• Average ad load reached 8.82% of episode time in Q4 2025, up from 8.33% the quarter before (Magellan AI).

Global Podcast Revenue Beyond US Ads

The IAB figure counts only US ads on audio, so the wider podcast economy is bigger.

• The IAB’s own 2025 report states that it uses “the traditional, audio-based definition of a ‘podcast'” while noting that definition “is rapidly expanding as video becomes the leading channel for podcast consumption” (IAB and PwC, Full-Year 2025).
• Owl and Co put the global podcast economy’s revenue at $9.2 billion in 2025, up 23% (Owl and Co, built from more than 300,000 data points across 1,600 publishers).
• Spotify paid out more than $100 million to podcast publishers and podcasters worldwide in the first quarter of 2025 alone, covering both advertising revenue and the Spotify Partner Program (Spotify).

If monetisation is the reason you’re reading this, we’ve got a fuller breakdown of how to make money with your podcast.

AI Podcast Tools: Growth and Product Statistics

The tool companies publish plenty about their own growth.

NotebookLM and ElevenLabs Growth Statistics

The biggest AI audio numbers come from the companies selling the tools.

• Google’s NotebookLM was renamed Gemini Notebook in July 2026, at which point Google disclosed more than 30 million people and over 600,000 organisations using it (Google).
• In the first three months after Audio Overviews launched in September 2024, users generated more than 350 years’ worth of them (Google).
• Audio Overviews reached more than 50 languages in April 2025 (Google).
• ElevenLabs raised $500 million in February 2026 at an $11 billion valuation, and reported closing 2025 with more than $330 million in annual recurring revenue (ElevenLabs).
• ElevenLabs says that more than tripled its valuation in a year, on total funding of $781 million across five rounds (ElevenLabs). Its January 2025 Series C had valued it at $3.3 billion (ElevenLabs).

AI Podcast Editing and Dubbing Tools

The editing and dubbing tools publish product news more readily than usage numbers.

• Descript raised a $50 million Series C led by the OpenAI Startup Fund in November 2022 and has announced no round since (Descript).
• Adobe’s Enhance Speech remains free at its base tier, with advanced source separation reserved for paid plans, and Adobe Podcast Studio added browser-based video recording and multi-track import from Zoom, Restream, StreamYard and Riverside (Adobe).
• YouTube opened auto-dubbing to all creators in February 2026 across 27 languages, and reported that in December 2025 it averaged more than 6 million daily viewers watching at least ten minutes of auto-dubbed content (YouTube).

If you’re assembling a stack, we keep current reviews of the best AI podcast recording software, the best AI podcast editing software and podcast transcription services.

AI-Generated Podcasts on Spotify and Apple

Spotify now generates podcasts itself, and neither big platform says how much of its catalogue is synthetic.

• Spotify’s Q2 2026 report to investors announced Personal Podcasts, which lets listeners generate and schedule AI-powered audio episodes, with a set number of monthly credits included in Premium and more available to buy (Spotify, Q2 2026 Form 6-K).
• The same Q2 2026 report announced Studio by Spotify Labs, a desktop app that builds personalised audio from a listener’s browser and connected apps (Spotify, Q2 2026 Form 6-K).
• Neither Spotify nor Apple has published any figure for the volume of AI-generated podcasts on its platform. Spotify’s only AI-slop removal disclosure, from September 2025, covers music exclusively (Spotify).

Podcast Download Statistics for New Shows

This is the section to read before anyone tells you your show’s underperforming.

Average Podcast Downloads Per Episode

The median podcast gets a few dozen downloads per episode, which is why an average is a useless benchmark in this medium.

• The median Buzzsprout podcast gets 27 downloads per episode in the first seven days (Buzzsprout, August 2026).
• 96 downloads per episode in seven days puts a podcast in the top 25% (Buzzsprout).
• 407 downloads is the top-10% threshold, 1,003 the top-5% threshold and 4,526 the top-1% threshold (Buzzsprout).
• The top-1% threshold is a factor of roughly 168 above the median: 4,526 first-week downloads against 27 (Buzzsprout, ratio calculated from the published thresholds).

Podcast Episode Length and Publishing Frequency

Buzzsprout’s shows cluster around a weekly or fortnightly schedule.

• 31% of episodes run 20 to 40 minutes, 21% come in under 10 minutes and 13% run over an hour (Buzzsprout).
• 37% of shows publish every 8 to 14 days, 34% every 3 to 7 days and only 7% publish every 0 to 2 days (Buzzsprout).
• Nearly one in six podcast consumers has tried making a podcast, and for every three who start, one stops (Sounds Profitable, The Creators 2025, 5,000+ respondents, November 2025).

Getting found is its own problem, and our roundup of where to submit a show is where I’d start.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many people listen to podcasts in 2026?

58% of Americans aged 12 and over, about 167 million people, consumed a podcast in the last month according to Edison Research’s Infinite Dial 2026. 45%, roughly 130 million, consumed one in the last week. Both are all-time highs for the series.

How many podcasts are there?

3,808,189, holding 193,508,252 episodes, according to Listen Notes in September 2026. Podcast Index counts 4,728,233 because it filters less aggressively. Only 547,671 Listen Notes shows, roughly one in seven, had published anything during 2026 by the dataset date, so most of the catalogue is dormant.

What is a good number of downloads for a podcast?

27 downloads in the first seven days is the median on Buzzsprout’s platform as of August 2026. 96 puts you in the top quarter, 407 in the top 10% and 4,526 in the top 1%. Anyone quoting you an “average” download figure is describing a distribution so skewed that the mean’s meaningless.

Are podcasts still growing in 2026?

Listening is. Edison recorded all-time highs for ever, monthly and weekly podcast reach in 2026, and US ad revenue rose 17.6% to $2.86 billion in 2025, the last full year measured. Creation is not. New human-made shows have fallen every month since January 2026, from 20,177 to 7,442 in August, and 2026 launches through early September totalled 102,516 against 210,645 for the whole of 2025.

How much do podcast ads cost?

Baked-in host-read ads run $24 to $26 CPM for 60 seconds and $18 to $22 for 30 seconds on Libsyn’s published rate card. Business shows command the highest category rate at $30, and programmatic inventory runs $12 to $15. Cost is reach multiplied by CPM divided by 1,000.

Is video now more important than audio for podcasts?

Not more important, just additional. 80% of the monthly US podcast audience aged 18 and over both watched and listened in Triton’s Q2 to Q3 2025 survey, and only 7% watched without listening. Roughly 71% of US creators made video versions in Sounds Profitable’s 2025 creator study, as cited by the IAB. The IAB still measures revenue on the audio definition while acknowledging video has become the leading consumption channel.

Sources

Figures on this page come from the primary sources below, checked in September 2026.

• Edison Research at SSRS, The Infinite Dial 2026, 2026
• Edison Research and Triton Digital, The Infinite Dial 2020, 2020
• Edison Research, The Podcast Consumer 2024, 2024
• Edison Research and Ad Results Media, Podcasting’s Super Listeners 2021, 2022
• Edison Research at SSRS, Share of Ear, 2026
• Triton Digital, U.S. Podcast Report 2025, 2025
• Triton Digital, U.S. Podcast Rankers, 2026
• Listen Notes, Podcast Stats, 2026
• Podcast Index, Stats, 2026
• Buzzsprout, Podcast Stats, 2026
• IAB and PwC, Internet Advertising Revenue Report Full-Year 2025, 2026
• IAB and PwC, Internet Advertising Revenue Report Full-Year 2024, 2025
• Magellan AI, Podcast Advertising Benchmarks Q4 2025, 2026
• Libsyn Ads, Podcast Advertising Guide, 2026
• Owl and Co, The Global Podcast Economy, 2026
• Spotify, Q2 2026 Form 6-K, 2026
• Spotify, Q4 2025 Form 6-K, 2026
• Spotify, Investor Day podcast update, 2026
• YouTube, Official Blog, 2026
• Google, Gemini Notebook announcement, 2026
• ElevenLabs, Series D announcement, 2026
• Sounds Profitable, The Creators 2025, 2025
• Edison Research at SSRS, About Share of Ear, 2026
• YouTube, 1 billion monthly podcast users, 2025
• YouTube, Podcasts in the living room, 2025
• YouTube, Auto-dubbing for all creators, 2026
• Google, NotebookLM new features, 2024
• Google, Audio Overviews in 50 languages, 2025
• ElevenLabs, Series C announcement, 2025
• Descript, Series C announcement, 2022
• Adobe, What’s new in Adobe Podcast, 2026
• Spotify, $100 million creator payout, 2025
• Spotify, AI protections update, 2025