Your summer podcast guide: Why 2018 is the year of the ‘podcast boom’

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My Dad Wrote a Porno and Love Island are among the UK’s most successful podcasts

Whether driving the car, sitting on a train, out running or doing the housework, more of us than ever before are choosing podcasts to keep us company.

The latest figures from Rajar suggest six million (11%) of us listen to a podcast each week.

That’s up from 3.8 million in 2016.

While that’s still a relatively low proportion of the population, it represents a 58% increase over a two-year period.

But one of the key factors is the age of those listening. Recent research from podcast platform Acast suggests that podcast listeners in the UK tend to be millennials – with two-thirds falling into the 16-34 age bracket. Of this group, 27% listen once a week, and 29% listen between…

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