Stuff You Should Know

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YAPP has Smart‑Skip data for 52 episodes of Stuff You Should Know. Recent episodes average 7.8 minutes of ads per 48.4‑minute episode.

9.7ad minutes per hourof runtime
16.2%of runtimeis advertising
4.2ad breaksper episode, on average
52episodesmeasured by YAPP

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Recent episodes

Ad time detected in the 25 most recent episodes of Stuff You Should Know that YAPP has processed.
Episode Published Length Ad time Breaks
Emily Post: Ettiquette Queen 50:22 9:16 4
Short Stuff: Mabon 13:58 2:32 2
Our Big Fat Dream Episode 58:26 9:05 4
Selects: Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out) 55:56 11:20 6
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What is Collective Hysteria? 51:04 9:31 4
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects? 54:52 9:27 6
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What's the deal with blue people? 55:46 9:41 5
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Dragons: As Real as Mermaids 48:43 9:07 4
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What was the Philadelphia Experiment? 55:43 7:44 4
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste 1:09:46 8:06 4
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Max Headroom Incident 54:46 6:51 5
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Mermaids: Not a real thing 49:49 7:46 4
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Creepy Legacy of the Hotel Cecil 55:21 8:36 5
SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Doppelgängers: Hey you, you're me! 53:23 5:58 4
The Cancer Episode 1:00:29 9:43 4
Short Stuff: Leisure Suits 14:02 3:14 2
How Boredom Works 51:23 9:20 5
Selects: Wasps: Not as cute as bees 56:02 9:41 5
The Odyssey Episode 59:28 9:28 4
Short Stuff: Flappers 14:01 3:10 3
Nickelodeon:The Best of Slimes 57:15 7:09 4
Selects: Blacksmiths? You got that right! 58:54 9:05 5
Social Identity Theory: Your Group Rules, Others Drool 55:58 8:16 4
Short Stuff: Hisashi Ouchi 15:41 3:50 2
Terry Fox: Greatest Canadian Hero 56:04 10:58 5

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 Stuff You Should Know with YAPP

Stuff You Should Know runs 4.2 ad breaks in a typical episode, so there is a fair amount between you and what you came for. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 7.8 minutes per episode, or 9.7 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 52 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 2% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.

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