Podcast Audience Size Facts

Researchers at the Defusion Group predict that the U.S. podcast audience will climb from 840,000 in 2005 to 56 million by 2010. By that time, three-quarters of all people who own portable digital music players will listen to podcasts, up from less than 15 percent from 2005, the digital entertainment research group said.

Over 6 million Americans have listened to a Podcast.

A report published 04/05 by the Pew Internet and American Life Project

In late June 2005 Apple added 3,000 Podcasts to iTunes. Within two days, customers had subscribed to more than 1 million Podcasts. That number is now more than 5 million said Stan Ng, Apple’s director of iPod marketing worldwide.

The Sunday Times-August 7, 2005