Wondery launched 53 podcasts in 2024 and 3 in 2026

In August 2025 Amazon reorganised Wondery and moved its narrative shows into Audible. We wanted to see what that did to the number of new shows, so we took every Wondery and Audible feed on Art19 from the Podcast Index dump of 16 August 2026 and grouped them by the date of their first episode. We left out 24 feeds whose owner is Audible Originals, a separate Audible label. That leaves 295 feeds.

Still publishing means a new episode on or after 16 June 2026. Most Wondery shows are limited series, so a low number there is normal for every year.

The drop started before the reorganisation

We expected a fall after August 2025. The fall came earlier. Wondery started 29 shows between August and November 2024, then none in December, and 9 in the seven months from January to July 2025. From August to December 2025 there were 11, and in 2026 up to the dump date 3: Last One Laughing Official Podcast in March, Foul Play in May and Guz & Kiell Will Not Survive in August.

At the 2021 to 2024 pace of about 4 a month, Wondery would have started around 29 shows by mid-August 2026.

Most new Audible feeds stop at three episodes

Of the 11 feeds started after August 2025 with Audible as owner, 8 have three episodes or fewer. Not a Very Good Murderer and My Mom's Murder have one each, Chasing Ghislaine and Dear Cousin two. Between January 2023 and July 2025 it was 19 of 63.

The owner field now says Audible

186 of the 295 feeds name Audible as iTunes owner, including older Wondery titles such as Business Wars, American Scandal, American History Tellers and Dr. Death. 70 still name Wondery. Those are mostly host-led talk shows such as Armchair Expert and How I Built This, which carry "| Wondery" after the show name.

This is why the media brands post counts only 4 Wondery launches in 2025. That count matched owner or author names containing Wondery, and 14 of the 20 shows Wondery started in 2025 list Audible as owner in the dump.

How we counted

Source: Podcast Index feed dump, 16 August 2026. A feed is in the set when it is hosted on Art19 and its iTunes owner or author names Wondery or Audible, or its description or website link mentions Wondery, except feeds whose owner is Audible Originals. Launch year is the year of the oldest episode in the feed; one feed without episode dates is left out of the table. Feeds Wondery deleted before August 2026 are not in the dump, so earlier years may be undercounted. The feed list is in the dataset folder.