Investing podcasts are super popular. But do they help people learn the market?

From game highlights to cold cases to political pontificating, podcasts provide the stage for public conversations in 2026. But are we learning anything from all that chatter? When it comes to investing and playing the markets, the answer seems to be yes. New research from the University of Georgia Terry College of Business published in the Review of Accounting Studies suggests that people who trade individual stocks, known as retail investors, do better because of the information they glean from financial markets podcasts.