In this post, we’ll highlight a few of our favorite visuals from 2025 and walk through how we made them and what makes them successful.
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Here’s a look back at 2025 through 12 of our most striking research findings.
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In 2016, 51% of U.S. adults said they followed the news all or most of the time, but that share fell to 36% in 2025.
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Among TV news consumers, 57% say that their news mostly comes from cable, satellite or broadcast television. 34% say it mostly comes from streaming services.
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Overall, 56% of U.S. adults now say they have a lot of or some trust in the information they get from national news organizations – down 11 percentage points since March 2025.
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Those who report often encountering inaccurate news are more likely than those who rarely or never do to say it’s hard to know what is true (59% vs. 31%).
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Nearly half of Americans (46%) say the news they get makes them feel informed extremely often or often.
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About one-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots.
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One-in-five U.S. adults say they find AI summaries in search results extremely or very useful, 52% say they're somewhat useful, and 28% say they're not too or not at all useful.
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Among adults under 30, 43% say they regularly get news from TikTok, up from 9% in 2020.
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Podcasts are playing a bigger role in Americans' news diets. Around a third of U.S. adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes.
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Many Americans use social media for news: About a fifth or more regularly get news on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
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