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With the NBA postponing the rest of its season, and other major events like the NAB and Coachella canceling, the coronavirus quickly became the biggest story in the world. And, a very popular subject for newly launched podcasts.
As Digitday points out CNN’s new 10-minute daily podcast “Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction” hit 1 million downloads a week after launch. Many other companies have also launched coronavirus podcasts and Apple has created an entire section on the topic.
Digiday reports Acast says there have been 650 episodes which reference corona or “covid” in the episode titles. “These have been downloaded 16 million times. A number of individual coronavirus-related podcast episodes have had over 300,000 listens each. The most popular day was March 5 where there were over 875,000 listens across coronavirus-related podcasts on Acast’s network.”
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10k coronavirus episodes in one week: https://rainnews.com/podspec-podcasting-jumps-into-coronavirus-10k-episodes-in-the-past-week/