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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 4PM EDT | 5:03 | 0:24 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 3PM EDT | 5:04 | 0:24 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 2PM EDT | 5:04 | 0:23 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 12PM EDT | 5:03 | 0:24 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 11AM EDT | 5:03 | 0:24 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 10AM EDT | 5:18 | 0:38 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 8AM EDT | 5:21 | 0:42 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 7AM EDT | 5:03 | 0:23 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 6AM EDT | 5:03 | 0:24 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 4AM EDT | 5:10 | 0:31 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-19-2026 12AM EDT | 5:12 | 0:33 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-18-2026 11PM EDT | 5:09 | 0:30 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-18-2026 6PM EDT | 5:13 | 0:33 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-18-2026 5PM EDT | 5:13 | 0:33 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-18-2026 12PM EDT | 5:15 | 0:37 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-18-2026 8AM EDT | 5:04 | 0:23 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-18-2026 7AM EDT | 5:19 | 0:37 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-18-2026 5AM EDT | 5:04 | 0:23 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-18-2026 2AM EDT | 5:15 | 0:36 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-17-2026 8PM EDT | 5:12 | 0:34 | 2 | |
| NPR News: 09-17-2026 4PM EDT | 5:04 | 0:23 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-17-2026 3PM EDT | 5:04 | 0:23 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-17-2026 2PM EDT | 5:04 | 0:23 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-17-2026 1PM EDT | 5:04 | 0:23 | 1 | |
| NPR News: 09-17-2026 12PM EDT | 5:04 | 0:24 | 1 |
Ad load varies by listener. Most podcast advertising is dynamically inserted, so figures reflect ad load as observed by YAPP's processing pipeline at the time each episode was fetched, not what any individual listener hears. Methodology
Listening to NPR News Now with YAPP
NPR News Now typically runs 1.6 ad breaks per episode, usually a pre-roll and one or two mid-rolls. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 0.5 minutes per episode, or 5.9 minutes for every hour of listening.
YAPP maps each episode before you play it, so you get the show and not the rest of it. Because the ads are stitched in per listener, YAPP matches what you are actually hearing rather than replaying a fixed set of timestamps.
How these numbers are measured
YAPP transcribes each episode, classifies advertising segments, and refines their boundaries using audio fingerprinting. Figures cover the 462 episodes of this show that YAPP has processed. Because most podcast ads are dynamically inserted and vary by listener, these figures reflect what our pipeline observed rather than what every listener hears. Full methodology
Boundaries for 1% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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