On the Media
WNYC Studios
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New Rules Of War Are There Are No Rules | 29:41 | 0:08 | 1 | |
| How Extinction Entered the AI Debate | 51:27 | 1:11 | 3 | |
| How To Make A Documentary, With John Wilson | 36:14 | 1:25 | 3 | |
| Haitians Live in a Dual State in Ohio Right Now | 52:19 | 2:02 | 3 | |
| Dave Jorgenson on Politics in the Influencer Age | 30:35 | 1:19 | 3 | |
| The Pentagon is Waging War on Its Own Paper | 52:15 | 1:42 | 3 | |
| A Look Back at *The* 9/11 Truther Movie | 17:29 | 1:02 | 2 | |
| Finance Bros Are Coming for the Public Airwaves | 53:02 | 2:03 | 4 | |
| How AI Chatbots are Infiltrating Classrooms | 23:42 | 0:22 | 1 | |
| Behind the Scenes of 'American Emergency' | 42:12 | 1:11 | 2 | |
| How the U.S. Government Built an Underground City, and Other State Secrets | 51:43 | 1:56 | 3 | |
| The Story Behind Trump’s Terrible Approval Rating | 52:51 | 2:16 | 3 | |
| F@#$ the AI Overlords | 52:27 | 1:44 | 3 | |
| ICE's Summer Spending Spree | 20:27 | 0:42 | 2 | |
| Trump v. BBC | 24:01 | 0:08 | 1 | |
| Tulsi Gabbard's Guru | 35:24 | 0:50 | 2 | |
| The FCC’s Pressure Campaign to Reshape Broadcast TV | 51:35 | 1:09 | 3 | |
| A Tour Through the Epstein Files | 21:53 | 0:52 | 2 | |
| A Newspaper Raid and a Small Town Whodunnit | 51:44 | 1:22 | 3 | |
| The Rest Is History | 49:31 | 1:54 | 4 | |
| The Fantasy of America at 250 | 52:47 | 2:21 | 3 | |
| Far Right Stars Are Bemoaning the Chaos They Created | 22:50 | 0:14 | 1 | |
| J.D. Vance: Iran Deal Fall Guy | 54:06 | 3:37 | 4 | |
| The Cat Ladies Haven't Forgotten | 19:13 | 1:37 | 3 | |
| The UK’s Violent Riots Were Stoked by Elon Musk and a Global Far-Right Network | 54:14 | 3:35 | 4 |
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 On the Media with YAPP
On the Media typically runs 3 ad breaks per episode, usually a pre-roll and one or two mid-rolls. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 1.7 minutes per episode, or 2.6 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 57 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 31% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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