Coronovirus is a rare example of a global #1 news topic. How is podcasting responding to the appetite for information?
Here’s one bullet point: Over 10,000 episodes have been released in the past week with “coronavirus” in the title or description. Here’s another: 3,129 such episodes have been published in the past 24 hours. (Past week is March 3-10; past 24 hours is at 10:00am ET March 10.)
Let’s look at coronavirus podcast episodes during the last week in important coronavirus regions:
- China: 5
- Italy:460
- South Korea: 10
- Iran: 0
- Australia: 199
- UK: 568
- United States: 10,000+
Here are coronavirus episodes (one week) in different topical categories:
WEEK:
- Alternative Health (25 episodes)
- Business (1,773)
- Fitness (109)
- Health & Fitness (686)
- Medicine (58)
- Science (273)
(All data from Listen Notes.)