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• Jellypod made 5,082 AI podcasts and 4,503 of them have no episodes 2026-10-29. Of 5,082 Jellypod feeds in the Podcast Index dump of 16 August 2026, 4,503 list no episode and 234 (4.6%) published in the last 90 days, against 32.1% of all feeds added since January 2025.
• Average podcast length is 34 minutes. The US top 100 runs 55. 2026-10-26. Across the 421,497 podcasts that published in the 90 days before the Podcast Index dump of 2026-08-16, the newest episode has a median length of 34.2 minutes and a mean of 41.7; 20.7% run an hour or longer; the US Apple top 100 has a median of 55.0 minutes and 42.6% of those shows run an hour or more.
• Audacy launched 114 podcasts in 2025 and 86 still publish. Voice of America launched 89 and 1 does 2026-10-22. Of the podcasts named media brands launched in 2025, 75.4% of Audacy's and 57.3% of iHeartMedia's published an episode in the two months before 16 August 2026, against 1 of Voice of America's 89 and 22.0% of all 356,901 feeds launched that year.
• Podcast Advertising 2026 Statistics (Updated September) 2026-09-24. 43 podcast advertising statistics for 2026: U.S. podcast ad revenue from IAB and PwC, company results, ad spend and ad load, ad recall and YouTube vs audio, academic studies, and Podcastquery counts of who hosts the chart shows.
• Podcast 2026 Statistics (Updated September) 2026-09-24. 50 podcast statistics for 2026: how many podcasts exist, how many are active, U.S. and UK listeners, YouTube and video, plus Podcastquery counts from 4.7 million feeds.
• Video Podcast 2026 Statistics (Updated September) 2026-09-24. 41 video podcast statistics for 2026: YouTube podcast viewers, Spotify video podcasts, how many people watch or listen, TV screens, plus Podcastquery counts of video in 4.7 million RSS feeds.
• 91% of the world's 4.7M podcasts haven't published an episode in 90 days 2026-09-16. Of the 4,711,475 feeds in the Podcast Index dump of 2026-08-16, 437,693 (9.29%) published an episode in the 90 days before it; 2,768,200 hold two episodes or more and nothing from the last year; 892,068 hold exactly one episode; 95,121 carry a title a hosting platform wrote at sign-up; and a third of the 2025 cohort's growth over 2024 is Spreaker stubs.
• Goalhanger holds 44 Apple chart slots, more than iHeartMedia and Spotify together 2026-09-15. Goalhanger holds 44 of the 1,800 top-100 slots across 18 Apple storefronts with 11 shows, against 19 for iHeartMedia and 15 for Spotify, and the six US audio majors hold 8 of the 100 US slots.
• Spreaker passed Anchor in 2025; 73% of its new feeds hold 3 or fewer episodes 2026-09-15. 106,699 of the 356,901 feeds whose oldest episode falls in 2025 sit on Spreaker and 86,799 on Anchor, and 78,261 of the Spreaker feeds, 73.35%, hold three episodes or fewer.
• True crime is 0.5% of active podcasts and 7% of Apple's charts. Religion is 14% and 1.5% 2026-09-15. True Crime is the first category of 2,266 of the 437,693 feeds active in the 90 days to 2026-08-16, 0.52%, and of 99 of the 1,387 Apple top-100 chart shows we joined, 7.14%, while Religion & Spirituality is 13.74% of those active feeds and 1.51% of those chart shows.
• Anchor hosts 40% of all podcasts and 15% of Apple's top-100 charts 2026-09-08. Anchor (Spotify for Creators) hosts 40.46% of the 4,711,475 feeds in the Podcast Index but only 15.36% of 1,387 Apple top-100 chart shows, while Megaphone hosts 0.57% of feeds and 17.23% of the same chart shows.