More people in Canada listen to podcasts every week than the US

More people in Canada listen to podcasts every week than the US

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  • 37% of Canadians listen to podcasts every month, according to new data from Edison Research’s Infinite Dial Canada 2020. That puts monthly Canadian podcast consumption on par with the US. Weekly listening is even higher than its southern neighbour, at 24%: the highest figure recorded by the international surveys so far.

  • Triton Digital has released their US Podcast Report through May 10. NPR News Now is (still) #1; NPR have 9 shows in the top 15. The highest new entry was from Audioboom, who joined the report this release: Morbid is new at #29. The service only measures participating publishers.

  • Podtrac has also released their US publisher report for May. iHeartRadio, absent from the Triton Digital report, is at #1; NPR is at #2. Their service, too, only measures participating publishers.


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