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Recent episodes
| Episode | Published | Length | Ad time | Breaks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tucker Carlson on his MAGA split and Trump's 'nihilism' | NPR's Newsmakers | 57:44 | 0:38 | 2 | |
| UN General Assembly Week, Trump's Triumphal Arch, Air Traffic Control AI | 13:11 | 0:38 | 1 | |
| An American journalist missing in Syria: what happened? | 29:30 | 0:11 | 1 | |
| Trump Bans Media from White House, Europe on High Alert, College Sports Bill | 17:40 | 2:22 | 3 | |
| Kennedy Center Demolition Threat, Trump's Troubles, Poland Warns Of Russian Attacks | 14:34 | 1:48 | 2 | |
| Fed Raises Interest Rates, Iran War and Oil Prices, EU-Canada Alliance | 15:10 | 2:01 | 2 | |
| Federal Reserve Interest Rates, Reports Reveal Iran War Costs, Kennedy Center Closure | 14:47 | 1:51 | 2 | |
| Trump Downplays AI Risks, SCOTUS Mail-In Voting Ruling, Kennedy Center Bankruptcy | 15:04 | 1:57 | 2 | |
| AI Development Slowdown, Gulf States Postpone Iran Talks, Republican Midterm Strategy | 15:30 | 2:31 | 3 | |
| The Clancy trial and a split over postpartum psychosis | 31:17 | 2:51 | 3 | |
| BRICS Summit in India, Amazon Air Plane Crash, Federal Film Tax Bill | 17:12 | 2:10 | 3 | |
| Remembering 9/11, Republican Midterm Convention Wraps, SCOTUS Missouri Redistricting | 15:17 | 1:46 | 3 | |
| Trump Convention Speech, Missouri Contempt And Redistricting, Apple's Foldable iPhone | 15:21 | 2:47 | 3 | |
| US Strikes Iran Oil Tankers, Israeli Settlements Sanctions, Smithsonian Head Retires | 15:17 | 2:03 | 2 | |
| Canada's Retaliatory Tariffs On US, Trumpapalooza Convention, Miami Cargo Plane Crash | 15:26 | 2:11 | 2 | |
| Miami Plane Crash, Witkoff & Kushner Visit Ukraine, Far-Right AfD Wins In Germany | 14:53 | 2:35 | 3 | |
| From SPF to skin color, sunscreen’s effectiveness is complicated | 29:00 | 3:00 | 4 | |
| Negotiators to Moscow and Kyiv, Judge Issues Order on Arch, Western Wildfires | 16:56 | 2:05 | 4 | |
| Midterm Mail-In Voting Starts, IRS Targets DEI In Schools, ICE Officer Charged | 15:16 | 2:00 | 2 | |
| Pentagon Exodus Under Hegseth, Venezuela Oil and Democracy, Clancy Trial Deadlocked | 15:38 | 1:53 | 2 | |
| War In Iran Ramps Up, Trump Pressured By Gas Prices, Massachusetts Primary Results | 14:36 | 1:41 | 3 | |
| SCOTUS Allows Ballroom Construction, Army Secretary Resigns, G20 Summit in NC | 14:46 | 1:52 | 2 | |
| Trump Venezuela Oil Deal, US & Iran Renew Strikes, House Back From Recess | 13:16 | 0:33 | 1 | |
| Super El Niño, Measles, Iran War Stalemate | 16:24 | 0:42 | 1 | |
| Nepal-Tibet Flood Rescue, Fed Chair Speech, Kennedy Center Renaming Hearing | 14:52 | 1:55 | 2 |
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 Up First from NPR with YAPP
Up First from NPR typically runs 2.4 ad breaks per episode, usually a pre-roll and one or two mid-rolls. Across the episodes we have processed, that comes to about 2.1 minutes per episode, or 6.5 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 58 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 6% of detected segments were refined by audio fingerprinting; the rest rest on transcript timing and are less precise.
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