Podcast Industry Stats

A feed is “active” when at least one new episode was published inside the window. Numbers grow with longer windows because more shows fit inside.

• life1.6%
• new1.5%
• ceo1.4%
• business1.4%
• building1.3%
• future1.2%
• more1.1%
• world1.0%
• one0.94%
• marketing0.91%
• founder0.90%
• real0.90%
• van0.89%
• power0.87%
• data0.82%
• interview0.80%
• health0.79%
• iran0.78%
• trump0.76%
• inside0.75%
• get0.75%
• best0.74%
• work0.73%
• people0.72%

Tokenized across episode + show titles, lowercased and stripped of accents. Stopwords (a, the, le, der, episode…) excluded. “%” = share of titles containing the word.

Words that work in their episode titles

• davis7.4%
• victor7.4%
• hanson7.2%
• essentials5.0%
• mfm4.0%
• fbf3.8%
• iran3.8%
• murder3.6%
• murdered3.6%
• georgia3.4%
• karen3.2%
• minisode3.2%
• rewind3.2%
• dateline2.6%
• trump2.6%
• returns2.4%
• talking2.4%
• health2.2%

Pulled from up to 50 recent episodes per podcast in the Apple & Spotify US top 10. Reuse what’s working — these are the patterns the most-listened shows lean on.

Per-podcast breakdown

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  The Joe Rogan Experience50 episodes · avg 164 minjremichaelmmaprotectrobert
  164m
• 
  Call Her Daddy50 episodes · avg 67 minfbfalexlifecheatingcooper
  67m
• 
  Crime Junkie50 episodes · avg 51 minmurderedmissingmysteriousdeathinfamous
  51m
• 
  The Daily Signal50 episodes · avg 14 mindavisvictorhansonirantrump
  14m
• 
  Huberman Lab50 episodes · avg 101 minessentialshealthsciencetoolsimprove
  101m
• 
  SmartLess50 episodes · avg 58 minreleaseintroducingbrianjennyneed
  58m
• 
  Dateline NBC50 episodes · avg 40 mindatelinemurdertalkingbluegirl
  40m
• 
  Morbid50 episodes · avg 64 mintaleslistenermurderbonuskiller
  64m
• 
  My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark50 episodes · avg 60 minmfmgeorgiakarenminisoderewind
  60m
• 
  Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend50 episodes · avg 43 minreturnsagainreviewstaffguest
  43m