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Enthusiasm is Common. Endurance is Rare.

Sociologist Josh Morgan conducted a rather interesting study on the number and status of podcasts on iTunes from 2005–2015.

Here are some key highlights:

• About 200,000 individual podcasts were created, with about 5,000 new ones added every month since then.
• The average podcast had 12 episodes, about 2/month for 6 months.