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.

• trump1.9%
• new1.7%
• life1.4%
• more1.3%
• business1.2%
• ceo1.1%
• building1.1%
• fantasy1.1%
• world1.0%
• one0.99%
• future0.97%
• week0.96%
• real0.87%
• iran0.87%
• best0.85%
• founder0.83%
• most0.81%
• story0.78%
• power0.75%
• interview0.74%
• health0.73%
• people0.73%
• get0.71%
• van0.70%

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

• essentials5.2%
• series4.2%
• dateline4.0%
• georgia3.6%
• karen3.6%
• minisode3.6%
• murdered3.6%
• mfm3.4%
• missing3.2%
• rewind3.0%
• death2.8%
• mysterious2.6%
• fbf2.4%
• killer2.4%
• ritchie2.4%
• talking2.4%
• lord2.0%
• murder2.0%

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 minjremmaandrewdandaniel
  165m
• 
  Call Her Daddy50 episodes · avg 65 minfbfloveattachmentdatingstop
  65m
• 
  Crime Junkie50 episodes · avg 55 minmurderedmysteriousdeathmissingmary
  55m
• 
  The Daily Breadcast50 episodes · avg 9 minseriesritchielordwalkvictory
  9m
• 
  Huberman Lab50 episodes · avg 91 minessentialshealthimprovesciencesleep
  91m
• 
  SmartLess50 episodes · avg 60 minreleasealivebriancoxemma
  60m
• 
  Dateline NBC50 episodes · avg 32 mindatelinetalkingmurdermissingpreview
  32m
• 
  Morbid50 episodes · avg 74 mintaleskillergreenlistenerclub
  74m
• 
  My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark50 episodes · avg 60 mingeorgiakarenminisodemfmrewind
  60m
• 
  Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend50 episodes · avg 44 minreturnsconanpousessummeragain
  44m