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# Podcasts Growing Slowly
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/podcasts-growin/
- Published: 2008-09-04T03:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2008-09-04T03:15:00.000Z
- Description: Podcast downloading continues to increase , but only slowly. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast. This most recent percentage is up from 12% of. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/09/podcasts-growin.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

[![Podcast](https://spcdn.shortpixel.ai/spio/ret_img,q_cdnize/www.hypebot.com/hypebot/images/2008/09/02/podcast.jpg "Podcast")](https://www.hypebot.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/02/podcast.jpg)

  
Podcast downloading continues to increase , but only slowly. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast. This most recent percentage is up from 12% of internet users who reported downloading podcasts in our August 2006 survey and 7% in a Pew February-April 2006 survey.

Still, podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few internet users download podcasts on a typical day.Read a pdf of of the Pew report [here](http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP%5FPodcast%5F2008%5FMemo.pdf?ref=hypebot.com).

Here’s a shameless plug for our own [ArtistDish Podcast #3](https://www.hypebot.com/podcast-3-pando/): Muxtape & Pandora.