NYT podcast hits a billion downloads

The New York Times’ Daily podcast has hit a billion downloads.

Since the first episode in February 2017, “The Daily” has featured 224 Times colleagues in at least 30 countries across 691 episodes, according to The Times.

The most downloaded episode of 2019 — and in the podcast’s history — was “Reckoning With the Real Michael Jackson.” The most downloaded episode from 2018 was “The Blasey-Kavanaugh Hearing.” The most downloaded episode from 2017 was “A Hate Crime, or a Wound from War?”

The twenty-minute, five-day-a week show is hosted by Times journalist Michael Barbaro.

The New York Times Company mentioned the podcast in its comments on its 2019 second-quarter results. “It was a good quarter for advertising with total advertising revenue growing slightly. Digital advertising grew by almost 14 percent with strong performances in direct sales, including from ‘The Daily’ podcast and creative services,” according to the company.

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