By nearly every metric, podcasts are growing more and more popular, according to Adweek. And they can be highly lucrative: NPR's podcasts added over a million listeners between 2015 to 2016, and Slate's podcast the Slate Political Gabfest made $1 million in revenue last year.
But what do people listen to the most? Podtrac has a list of July's most popular podcasts:
- The American Life - This American Life
- Stuff You Should Know - HowStuffWorks
- RadioLab - WNYC Studios
- TED Radio Hour - NPR
- Planet Money - NPR
- Up First - NPR
- Freakonomics - WNYC Studios
- Fresh Air - NPR
- Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! - NPR
- The Daily - The New York Times