Platforms & Services

A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that podcast listening is highly fragmented, and no one podcast dominates.

Roughly half of U.S. adults say they have listened to a podcast in the past year, including one-in-five who report listening at least a few times a week. Most podcast listeners say this experience includes hearing news, which they largely expect to be mostly accurate. Large shares of listeners say they turn to podcasts for entertainment, learning or having something to listen to while doing something else.

Concern among U.S. adults about cryptocurrency is broad, but some groups are more concerned than others. Only 18% are somewhat confident in crypto.

Americans support banning TikTok by a more than two-to-one margin, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

BitChute is a video-sharing site and an alternative social media platform; here are key facts about the site and its users.

One-in-ten U.S. adults have heard of the alternative social media site Gettr, and only 1% say they regularly get news there.

About one-in-ten U.S. adults have heard of Gab, an alternative social media site, and 1% say that they get news there regularly.

Prominent accounts on Twitter are more likely than those on alternative social media sites to link to print publications, TV and wire services.

Here are key facts about the alternative social media service Rumble, an online video-sharing platform founded in 2013.

While 27% of U.S. adults say they have heard of Telegram, only 2% use the alternative social media app for news.