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  "claim": "YouTube has more than 1 billion monthly active viewers of podcast content (as of January 2025)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"Is YouTube the biggest podcast platform?\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
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  "origin": {
    "publisher": "YouTube Blog (Tim Katz)",
    "title": "Drop the mic: Celebrating 1 billion monthly podcast users on YouTube (Feb. 26, 2025)",
    "year": "2025"
  },
  "quote": "Today, we're announcing that there are more than 1 billion monthly active viewers of podcast content on YouTube . 1 ... 1. As of January 2025",
  "method": "Company-reported metric; YouTube's definition of 'podcast content'.",
  "drift": [
    "Definition: YouTube decides what counts as podcast content"
  ],
  "interest": "YouTube promotes its own platform.",
  "safe_rephrasing": "YouTube said in February 2025 that more than 1 billion people a month watched podcast content on YouTube, as of January 2025, using its own definition of podcasts.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "YouTube Blog — 1 billion monthly podcast users",
      "url": "https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/1-billion-monthly-podcast-users/",
      "primary": true
    }
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  "as_of": "January 2025",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}