A study from 2021 found that people who have not listened to a podcast in the last month did so due to the lack of time. In both Europe and the United States, 20 percent of respondents said that they did not have enough time to consume one or more podcasts. However, in the U.S. only nine percent of respondents stated that they did not really know what podcasts were while in Europe, 17 percent said the same.
Reasons why people do not consume podcasts in the Unites States and Europe in 2021
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