{
  "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."
  ]
}