| { |
| "source": "Crawlora Podcast Gold Rush Index", |
| "snapshotDate": "2026-06-20", |
| "country": "US", |
| "homepage": "https://crawlora.net/blog/podcast-gold-rush-2026", |
| "repository": "https://github.com/Crawlora-org/podcast-gold-rush-data", |
| "license": "CC-BY-4.0", |
| "scope": "Apple Podcasts discoverable head (charts + search) — NOT the full RSS universe", |
| "winners": { |
| "universe": 1800, |
| "episodeSample": 500, |
| "medianEpisodeCount": 330.5, |
| "podfadePct": 2, |
| "categorySaturation": [ |
| { |
| "genre": "True Crime", |
| "count": 19 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Comedy", |
| "count": 12 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Entrepreneurship", |
| "count": 10 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Society & Culture", |
| "count": 6 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Daily News", |
| "count": 5 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "News Commentary", |
| "count": 5 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Self-Improvement", |
| "count": 4 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Business", |
| "count": 4 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Politics", |
| "count": 4 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "History", |
| "count": 3 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Management", |
| "count": 3 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "TV & Film", |
| "count": 2 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Football", |
| "count": 2 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "News", |
| "count": 2 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Sports", |
| "count": 2 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Marketing", |
| "count": 2 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Alternative Health", |
| "count": 2 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Mental Health", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Philosophy", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Investing", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Christianity", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Comedy Interviews", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Technology", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Books", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Health & Fitness", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Soccer", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Documentary", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Social Sciences", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Science", |
| "count": 1 |
| }, |
| { |
| "genre": "Music", |
| "count": 1 |
| } |
| ] |
| }, |
| "graveyard": { |
| "universe": 2096, |
| "withDate": 2096, |
| "podfade365Pct": 9.1, |
| "podfade180Pct": 12.2, |
| "survivalBands": { |
| "<3": 2.2, |
| "3-9": 4.6, |
| "10-49": 13.5, |
| "50+": 79.6 |
| }, |
| "survivalBandCounts": { |
| "<3": 47, |
| "3-9": 97, |
| "10-49": 283, |
| "50+": 1669 |
| }, |
| "medianEpisodeCount": 249 |
| }, |
| "crossPlatform": { |
| "appleVsSpotifyTop100": { |
| "topN": 100, |
| "overlap": 44, |
| "appleOnly": 56, |
| "spotifyOnly": 56, |
| "sharedExamples": [ |
| "The Daily", |
| "Crime Junkie", |
| "The Joe Rogan Experience", |
| "Dateline NBC", |
| "Up First from NPR", |
| "Pardon My Take", |
| "Pod Save America", |
| "Morbid" |
| ], |
| "asOf": "2026-06-20", |
| "method": "fuzzy name match across each platform's overall Top 100" |
| } |
| }, |
| "caveats": [ |
| "Discoverable head only (Apple charts + search) — both survivor-biased; the truly inactive majority (~84-89% of all podcasts per published research) is NOT reachable via these endpoints. Macro counts: cite Listen Notes / Podcast Index / Amplifi Media.", |
| "Launch year is reported only for shows whose full archive the API returns; the episodes endpoint caps at 200, so older/larger shows' founding dates are not reliably recoverable and are omitted (not estimated).", |
| "Future-dated placeholder episodes are clamped to the run date.", |
| "track_count is the current feed count; shows that prune old episodes understate lifetime." |
| ] |
| } |
