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Some of the fastest growing gaming markets are in South America where people primarily play online games. The gaming industry will achieve more than $196B in revenues next year with giants like Google and Apple intent on capturing their share. Game play is becoming so popular there is increasing media crossover with games converted to books, novelettes and films to take the industry well beyond the PC/console. Podcast Streaming Podcasting has improved a lot over time. Originally, you’d have to be really familiar with software using Audio Hijack Pro to record Google voice to a landline phone, record it, move the audio files to your editing software and then hope it came out right. Today, people can use apps like Zencaster and SquadCast, set up their virtual recording studio and they’re ready (almost) to chat with the world, become globally famous and make tons of money. Technology has improved so dramatically that people can produce podcasts with just a couple of buttons … and this past year, they did. iHeartRadio is the leading podcast publisher worldwide with 266.06M unique streams/downloads. By mid-2020 more, than 1M podcasts were available in the iTunes library according to Chartable and Spotify also saw substantial growth with triple-digit growth. Last year, two-thirds of US consumers listened to podcasts at least once in a while. 23 percent listened several times a week. On a monthly basis, 49 percent of 12- to 34-year-olds listen to podcasts on a monthly basis, while 10.8 percent listen daily. Edison Research reported that 54 percent of listeners 12+ were male and 45 percent were female with 43 percent listening to the