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The News Podcast Audience Hits a New High, and Sees a Striking Change in Composition

News has consistently been the second most-consumed category of podcasts since 2021, the first year of the survey of 12,000 adult podcast consumers that Signal Hill Insights conducts annually in the U.S. in support of Triton Digital’s Podcast Metrics Demos+. In the second quarter of this year the News genre hit a new high, with
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August 19, 2025

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