A monthly Podcast Health Report on dormancy and publishing recency for curated Apple-verified shows (CSV with Apple IDs), plus an Apple Charts Turnover Study collecting since August 2026 that will publish when history is deep enough.
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Free podcast datasets: show health + charts study
Citable measurements from the same Apple-verified pipeline that keeps dead shows off our recommendation lists. Download CSVs with Apple collection IDs — every claim is independently checkable. Updated for the 2026-08 health edition; this hub last reviewed 2026-09-12.
| Asset | Use |
|---|---|
| Podcast health report | First-party listening / feed health signal |
| Methods notes | How figures were produced |
| Editorial policy | About 45 pages are indexable, on purpose — how they are written and corrected |
Latest snapshot
What data does this hub publish?
Podcast Health Report — edition 2026-08
Among 779 ongoing curated shows (790 listed; 11 finished limited series excluded from dormancy rates), data as of 2026-08-08:
9%
no episode in 90+ days (stale)
5%
silent 1+ year (dormant)
85%
published in the last 30 days
779
verified ongoing shows in sample
Pattern that matters: business, sports, and other professionally backed categories sit near zero dormancy; hobbyist-led categories go quiet at many times that rate. Full methodology, per-genre table, and CSV live on the report page.
Datasets
What we publish
Podcast Health Report
Monthly dormancy and publishing-recency for editorially curated, Apple-verified shows. Per-show CSV with Apple collection IDs. Edition 2026-08 live.
Apple Charts Turnover Study coming soon
Daily Apple top-podcasts snapshots across 30 storefronts and 20 genres began August 2026 — the first free longitudinal chart dataset since Chartable shut down. We will publish half-life, turnover, and category velocity once enough history accumulates. No invented early numbers.
Why we publish this
A recommendation site should show its work
The Podcast App maintains curated recommendation lists inside a free podcast player. Keeping those lists honest means verifying, every month, that each recommended show still exists and still publishes — identity pinned to Apple collection IDs, dates from Apple's catalog. These datasets are that verification pipeline, published. If a number here is wrong, our recommendations are wrong, and we want to know.
Use the data with attribution (CC BY 4.0). Journalists on deadline: the health report has a cite-ready block and a methodology section written to be quoted. The same bar applies to every page here — see how this site is written, checked, and corrected.
FAQ
Questions about the data hub
Edition 2026-08 (as of 2026-08-08): of 779 ongoing curated shows, 9% stale 90+ days, 5% dormant 1+ year, 85% published in the last 30 days. Professionally backed categories barely go dormant; hobbyist categories go quiet far more often.
Yes — CC BY 4.0 with attribution. Each report includes cite-ready text, methodology, and a CSV pinned to Apple collection IDs.
No. Reports and CSVs are free on the web. Optional related tools: RSS Feed Validator, Cover Art Checker, OPML Generator, and the tools hub.