2025 was “best year yet” for Apple Podcasts

Apple Podcasts had its "best year yet" in 2025, achieving record listeners, plays and subscribers, said the company. 2025 was Apple Podcasts' twentieth year, launching automated chapters, timed links, and dialog enhancement tools. It was also the year that Apple Podcasts made its submission process easier, and spoke at a podcast event for what the company said was the first time ever. It also remained the #1 podcast app for consumption in the US.

Apple also launched a subscription for its creator apps, including Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, for $12.99 a month.

YouTube is used by more people in the UK than BBC television, according to some new analysis. The data measured so-called "three-minute" monthly reach: people who have used each platform for at least three minutes a month. However, in a parallel with podcasting figures, people don't use YouTube for long - if you compare a "fifteen-minute" monthly reach, BBC tv still comfortably beats YouTube by 6 million users (and then there's the radio and podcasts to add in).

In Canada, 40% of podcast consumers "use YouTube most often for podcasts" according to new data from Signal Hill Insights released today. 24% say they only consume video podcasts in the country, though.