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YouTube Beats Out Spotify As Top Podcast Platform With 1 Billion Users, CEO Promises Bigger Paydays For Creators

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YouTube Beats Out Spotify As Top Podcast Platform With 1 Billion Users, CEO Promises Bigger Paydays For Creators - Benzinga

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Research from Edison Podcast Metrics in October indicated that about 31% of weekly podcast listeners in the U.S.favor YouTube, compared to 27% for Spotify and 15% for Apple Podcasts by Apple Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL).

Alphabet Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube revealed that it has reached over 1 billion monthly active viewers of podcast content, thus outperforming Spotify Technology SA (NYSE:SPOT).

It added that last year, viewers spent over 400 million hours each month watching podcasts on living room devices.

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Author / Journalist: Namrata Sen

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Published On: 2025-02-27 @ 07:41:49 (13 hours ago)

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