Chart of the week: Podcast listeners are young, educated and affluent
One of the reasons for brands’ growing fondness of podcast advertising is the unique audience they can reach via the increasingly popular format. As the following chart, based on survey results from Edison Research, shows, podcast listeners in the US are younger, more educated and richer compared to the general population. For example, 51 per cent of monthly podcasts listeners have an annual household income of at least $75k, compared to just 38 per cent of the population. The same holds true for educational attainment: 61 per cent of podcast fans have completed at least four years of college, compared to 44 per cent of the entire population.
Podcasts give brands a chance to get their message across to an attractive audience that is otherwise hard to reach and to do it in a way that is personal and feels less intrusive than other forms of advertising. Most podcast ads are read by the host, which has the positive side-effect of projecting the host’s credibility onto the advertised product/service.
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Chart by Statista
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