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%
• business1.4%
• ceo1.3%
• building1.3%
• future1.1%
• more1.1%
• world1.0%
• one0.93%
• marketing0.91%
• real0.90%
• van0.88%
• power0.88%
• founder0.87%
• health0.81%
• data0.80%
• get0.76%
• interview0.74%
• work0.74%
• iran0.73%
• story0.73%
• trump0.73%
• inside0.73%
• best0.72%

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

• davis7.2%
• victor7.2%
• hanson7.0%
• essentials5.0%
• murder4.2%
• mfm4.0%
• fbf3.8%
• murdered3.4%
• georgia3.2%
• karen3.2%
• minisode3.2%
• rewind3.2%
• dateline3.0%
• iran3.0%
• talking2.8%
• trump2.6%
• returns2.4%
• missing2.2%

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 minjremmadavidmichaelprotect
  164m
• 
  Call Her Daddy50 episodes · avg 67 minfbfalexlovecheatingcooper
  67m
• 
  Crime Junkie50 episodes · avg 51 minmurderedmissingmysteriousdeathinfamous
  51m
• 
  The Daily Signal50 episodes · avg 15 mindavisvictorhansonirantrump
  15m
• 
  Huberman Lab50 episodes · avg 100 minessentialshealthsciencetoolsimprove
  100m
• 
  SmartLess50 episodes · avg 58 minreleaseintroducingbrianjennyneed
  58m
• 
  Dateline NBC50 episodes · avg 42 mindatelinemurdertalkingmagnoliasdeadly
  42m
• 
  Morbid50 episodes · avg 64 mintaleslistenermurderkillerrevisit
  64m
• 
  My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark50 episodes · avg 60 minmfmgeorgiakarenminisoderewind
  60m
• 
  Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend50 episodes · avg 43 minreturnsagainreviewstaffarcy
  43m