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Key takeaways Podcasting has a denominator problem: trackers count anywhere from 3.0M (Apple) to 4.7M (Podcast Index) to 7M (Spotify) shows. But only ~11–16% are active — meaning roughly 84–89% have

Jul 27 · 18 min read · crawlora.hashnode.dev  
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