Podcast downloads +45% year-over-year (Podtrac)

In our latest intermittent check-ins to Podtrac’s weekly podcast download report, we see a 45% increase between March 22, 2021 and March 27, 2022.

A few category observations from Podtrac:

• The Society & Culture category showed the strongest week-over-week growth at +5%.
• Science showed the weakest week-over-week growth at -7%.
• The category with strongest growth year-over-year was Sports at +111%.

The weekly bar chart clarifies how uneven the overall growth is, with wild plus and minus swings throughout the reporting period:

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