What about the audio aspect of podcasts? We provide speaker turn information, along with audio features that capture this information, such as pitch, allowing future research to consider elements like emotion, humor, or sarcasm

How does the podcast ecosystem react to major events? As a case study, we consider collective attention in the podcast ecosystem following the murder of George Floyd in 2020...

How do the creators of podcast content exchange ideas and form communities? We find that the Business, Sports, and News categories form communities through shared guests, whereas other large categories such as Religion and Society do not

Podcasts have categories, but how similar are podcasts within categories in terms of what they talk about? In our content analysis, we find it's mixed! Some topics belong to distinct categories—but other topics like "racial justice" or "spirituality" cut across many categories!