A decade ago, you may not have been able to name a single podcast (unless it was Serial). Now, if you're on social media or music streaming platforms, you're inundated with them. Because of their growing popularity, a survey from Edison Research's Share of Ear found that for the first time ever, more Americans aged 13 years or older listen to podcasts (40%) than to AM/FM radio (39%) as of the end of 2025. Although there is only a 1% difference, it's a historic number because podcast listenership has never surpassed radio, and the gap between the two has become increasingly smaller over the past decade. By comparison, in 2015, 75% of participants listened to AM/FM radio, while a mere 10% said they listened to podcasts. As AM/FM radio listenership has trended downward, podcasts have trended upward, Edison Research found. "Spoken-word audio has changed dramatically over the past 10 years," Edison Research says in a statement about the survey.…