The Radio took 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million.

The Radio took 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million.

In comparison, it took the radio just 38 years to have 50 million owners and the television (something that was deemed as too expensive to really take off as a popular consumer product) as little as 13 years!

38 years

Years it took to reach 50 million users: Radio 38 years. TV 13 years.

The table shows that of these technologies, only the telephone required considerable time (approximately 43 years) to acquire 50 million users in the United States. All the others reached that benchmark in less than ten years.

In the race to 50 million users there's one clear winner - and it might surprise you. Pokemon Go set the fastest time to 50 million users, which it reached in just 19 days.