About 74 percent of U.S. users aged 13 and up consume YouTube audio or engage in listening-first behaviors on the platform, ...

Podcast audiences may be increasingly opting to watch podcasts instead of experiencing them through audio alone, but a new report finds that audio podcast ads still outperform their YouTube variants ...

Podcast ad revenue crossed $2.9 billion in 2025, while the broader audio category held steady growth, but new IAB/PwC data ...

When Amazon gutted its podcast company, it built a new department that made creators kings, starting with the football stars ...

Last year, Google released a niche feature in its experimental NotebookLM product that turned out to be a sleeper hit. You could upload any document to NotebookLM, and it would use AI to generate a ...

Podcasting has a distribution problem that most podcasters don't talk about enough. The medium itself is thriving — there are more listeners, more shows, and more money moving through the space than ...

Podcasting continues to boom in 2025 as new shows breakthrough, streamers take an interest and billions listen and watch (Christopher Smith/TheWrap) In 2025, podcasting stopped behaving like an ...

It’s been a big year for podcasts and their power of connection. Now that we’re settling into 2026, it’s time to implement the lessons we’ve learned, celebrate our wins and look ahead to how we can ...

Why do songs prompt memories, drive obsessions, bond us with strangers or make us dance? Jude Rogers got to the bottom of these questions with her book “The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our ...

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