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Podcasts have overtaken AM/FM radio as the dominant format for spoken-word audio in the United States for the first time, claiming 40% of listening time compared to radio’s 39% in 2025.
This data comes from Edison Research’s Share of Ear survey released on February 24, 2026.
The milestone caps a decade-long transformation visible in the data.
In 2015, radio commanded 75% of spoken-word listening, while podcasts held just 10%, a 7.5-to-1 ratio that has now flipped to near-parity, with radio losing 36 percentage points and podcasts gaining 30.