"The Annapolis Podcast" is one of the few podcasts available on iTunes that exclusively focuses on the city and its residents. Pew Research Center found the percentage of Americans who have listened to a podcast within the last month has doubled since 2008, increasing from 9 percent to 17 percent in January 2015. In 2014, The Washington Post reported, that in five years, the number of unique monthly podcast listeners has tripled from 25 million to 75 million.