The NPR Politics Podcast
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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campaign messaging, concerts & Can't Let It Go | 33:35 | 4:13 | 4 | |
| How to watch the midterms like we do | 22:57 | 2:04 | 3 | |
| How do you solve a problem like AI? | 20:52 | 2:38 | 3 | |
| Voters say the American Dream is dead. Why? | 21:47 | 2:57 | 3 | |
| Missouri's map mayhem | 21:42 | 2:48 | 3 | |
| How 9/11 reshaped U.S. intelligence | Sources & Methods | 1:03:42 | 4:20 | 4 | |
| The legacy of 9/11 | 38:49 | 2:42 | 3 | |
| The young conservative movement post-Charlie Kirk | 18:29 | 3:33 | 4 | |
| How Trump's immigration policy has evolved | 23:43 | 1:42 | 3 | |
| What is the GOP convention happening this week? | 20:51 | 3:18 | 4 | |
| Trump's oil "deal" and gunboat diplomacy | Sources & Methods | 31:30 | 4:27 | 6 | |
| A tale of two Senate candidates | 21:09 | 2:39 | 3 | |
| What is democratic socialism? | 23:33 | 2:42 | 3 | |
| Answering your questions on the midterms & more | 21:22 | 1:48 | 5 | |
| The big deal with a big debt | 19:33 | 2:19 | 3 | |
| What happens if Trump tries to mess with the midterms? | 31:06 | 0:44 | 1 | |
| What's going on with vote-by-mail? | 17:25 | 2:04 | 3 | |
| Graham survives runoff with help from Trump's super PAC | 21:17 | 2:30 | 3 | |
| What a trade war with Canada means for U.S. consumers | 19:54 | 2:38 | 3 | |
| How many noncitizens are on U.S. voter rolls? | 20:05 | 2:13 | 3 | |
| Roundup: carrier formations, calendars & corgis | 29:16 | 4:11 | 4 | |
| Crime in the U.S. is down. Why? | 18:22 | 2:20 | 3 | |
| Takeaways from Tuesday's primaries | 22:05 | 2:20 | 3 | |
| What Florida's primaries tell us about American voters | 24:57 | 2:23 | 3 | |
| Why White House press secretaries still matter | 21:35 | 2:41 | 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 The NPR Politics Podcast with YAPP
The NPR Politics Podcast typically runs 3.4 ad breaks per episode, usually a pre-roll and one or two mid-rolls. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 2.8 minutes per episode, or 6.7 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 38 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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