California listens to more podcasts than any other US state

Listen · May 29 2020 · 1.6 minutes to read

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California listens to podcasts more than any other US state, says Stitcher, which has posted a look back at the last ten years of podcasting. Among the pieces of data: two-thirds of podcasts are streamed rather than downloaded, the company says.
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