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50bn podcast downloads so far: stats from Apple Podcasts

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    Stats from Apple Podcasts: 525,000 active shows; 18.5m episodes; the service has just hit 50bn all-time downloads.


    Aug 1 2023: This broken link now points to the Internet Archive.
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