3 Podcast Categories That Entertain & Educate One of the latest entertainment sectors to benefit from the smartphone boom is podcasting. Ten years ago, few people would bother listening to a curated show on their phones. Instead, most listeners tuned into their favorite radio talk shows or, in some cases, audiobooks. However, podcasts have become incredibly popular in the last five years. Back in 2018, Variety report that Apple Podcasts had over 500,000 active titles alone. Today, that number is somewhere around two million. There’s never been more audio entertainment for those on the go. According to Triton Digital, 10 million people have started listening to podcasts in the last year