Transistor Statistics, visualized

Transistor, the podcast hosting company, just started publishing detailed data every month about the most common apps it sees when serving podcasts for its customers.

We thought it might be fun to graph this data in order to visualize trends over time. Only two months of data so far!


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² Ex Apple/Spotify: all apps excluding Apple Podcasts and Spotify


Apple and Spotify are the top two apps by quite a bit. Let’s filter them out to see the others more clearly:


Now, since Transistor provides a download share ranking order for apps every month, let’s visualize the ranking positions themselves over time:



And that’s about it, Transistor currently only publishes monthly data about top apps. We’d love to see more data in future, such as top countries, top devices and monthly downloads!


Data provided by Transistor, visualized by John Spurlock


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