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.

• trump1.6%
• new1.6%
• life1.5%
• more1.2%
• business1.2%
• ceo1.1%
• building1.1%
• fantasy1.0%
• one1.0%
• future0.99%
• world0.98%
• real0.89%
• founder0.88%
• iran0.83%
• best0.82%
• week0.81%
• most0.80%
• story0.76%
• power0.75%
• people0.74%
• health0.73%
• interview0.73%
• get0.73%
• van0.72%

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

• series5.4%
• essentials5.0%
• dateline4.2%
• ritchie3.8%
• missing3.6%
• georgia3.4%
• karen3.4%
• mfm3.2%
• murdered3.2%
• death3.0%
• minisode3.0%
• murder3.0%
• rewind3.0%
• mysterious2.8%
• talking2.6%
• fbf2.4%
• killer2.2%
• returns2.2%

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 165 minjremmaandrewdanieljacobsen
  165m
• 
  Call Her Daddy50 episodes · avg 65 minfbfloveattachmentdatingstop
  65m
• 
  Crime Junkie50 episodes · avg 52 minmurderedmysteriousdeathmissingmary
  52m
• 
  The Daily Breadcast50 episodes · avg 8 minseriesritchiewalklordcluster
  8m
• 
  Huberman Lab50 episodes · avg 92 minessentialsimprovesciencehealthsleep
  92m
• 
  SmartLess50 episodes · avg 59 minreleaseandrewbriancoxemma
  59m
• 
  Dateline NBC50 episodes · avg 29 mindatelinemurdertalkingmissingamerica
  29m
• 
  Morbid50 episodes · avg 75 minmurderstaleskillergreenlistener
  75m
• 
  My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark50 episodes · avg 63 mingeorgiakarenmfmminisoderewind
  63m
• 
  Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend50 episodes · avg 42 minreturnsconanpousessummeragain
  42m