Since 2015, Share of Time Spent with AM/FM Streaming has Doubled 

This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. The slow but steady transfer of radio listening from traditional radio sets to streaming continues. Since 2015, the total portion of radio listening time that comes from streams has more than doubled, from 6% to 13% among those age […]

Smart Speaker Owners Listen to More Streaming Audio

This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. “The evolution of audio is partially fueled by new audio technology” was one of five audio megatrends cited in the Audio in Evolution webinar presented by Edison Research and Amazon Ads early this month. The webinar includes data from Edison’s […]

Weekly Insights 8.16.2023 AM/FM: OTA, Streaming, or Both

This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email. Please click here if you would like to subscribe. The audio space is a dynamic environment, and Edison Research’s unique Share of Ear® survey has been recording the changes in this space for nearly ten years. As has been well documented, the biggest transformations we have seen over […]

Weekly Insights 3.29.23 AM/FM Radio Streams v. Ad-Supported Streaming

Listeners age 25-54 spend more time listening to AM/FM radio streams than to ad-supported Streaming  If you have been following along with this four-part Weekly Insights series, you have seen us share some lesser-known statistics about AM/FM radio and how the medium displays certain strengths, particularly when compared with pureplay streaming services.  As a reminder, […]

Weekly Insights 11.30.22 AM/FM Over the Air vs. Streaming

This article is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email.  Please click here if you would like to subscribe. It’s time to check in on a data point we presented three years ago as part of our now-annual Top 10 Findings countdown. Finding #9 from our 2019 list was “AM/FM Listening is almost exclusively over-the-air…still.” At the […]

Streaming Now Accounts for 12% of AM/FM Radio Listening in the U.S.

Edison Research’s Share of Ear® shows highest proportion ever of AM/FM Listening to streaming v. over-the-air  The most recent Share of Ear® study from Edison Research finds that 12% of all AM/FM radio listening is via streaming, while 88% of listening is done to a traditional, over-the-air radio signal. AM/FM radio content in the U.S. […]

Streaming Accounts for 10% of Broadcast Radio’s Consumption during COVID-19 Disruptions

Most radio stations in the U.S. now can be heard online via a ‘stream’ in addition to over the air. Edison Research has been measuring the development of radio listening’s transition to the streaming environment ever since it began the Share of Ear® reports in 2014. In the latest Share of Ear update done in May 2020, and amidst the disruptions caused by COVID-19, streaming […]

The Relationship Between Smartphones, Streaming, and Pandora

Three graphs from The Infinite Dial dataset (more here) show the near-perfect correlation between the rise in smartphone ownership and streaming audio consumption: In fact, prior to widespread smartphone adoption, streaming audio had reached a brief plateau, as this graph indicates: Finally, nowhere is that correlation more evident than in the relationship between smartphone ownership […]

Streaming Audio Now Bigger than AM/FM Radio among US Teens

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE American Teens now spend more time with streaming audio services such as Pandora and Spotify than they do with AM/FM radio (including both over-the-air and the online streams of AM/FM stations), according to the Fall 2014 Share of Ear℠ report, new research from Edison Research. “While AM/FM Radio listening leads by a […]