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April 03, 2005

Do You Believe These Numbers? 6 Million People Have Downloaded Podcasts

From Reuters via Yahoo! News: "Podcasts Catching on with iPod Owners":

Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults who own MP3 players like Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod say they have downloaded podcast programs from the Internet, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found.

That means more than 6 million people are listening to a form of communication that emerged only last year, according to the nonprofit group.

6 million: that's a lot of people smoking the podcasting dope.

Related: Pew Reports: Podcasting catches on [pdf]

Update (4/13/05): Forrester: 12.3 million Will Be Listening to Podcasts by 2010
Steve Rubel: "According to a new report from Forrester, 12.3 million U.S. households will use their portable music players to listen to audio podcasts by the end of the decade as MP3 adoption climbs and broadband reaches 62 percent of households."

Posted by Evan Schaeffer at April 3, 2005 06:52 PM

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