2018 Year-End Wrapped from The Ride Home Podcast

A year in tech news, curated daily by The Ride Home podcast

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📅 Episodes & Coverage

Metric Count
Daily Show Episodes 174 days
Friday Longreads Episodes 35 Fridays
Total Episodes 209 episodes
Year Coverage 47.7% of 2018

Category Links Average per Episode
Daily Show Links 1,017 5.8 links/episode
Weekend Longreads 185 5.3 links/episode
TOTAL 1,202 -

Rank Source Links
🥇 The Verge 112
🥈 TechCrunch 94
🥉 Bloomberg 78
4 WSJ 61
5 NYTimes 47
6 CNBC 46
7 Wired 30
8 Recode 21
9 Engadget 20
10 Axios 18

📚 Top 10 Sources - Weekend Longreads

Rank Source Articles
🥇 Wired 17
🥈 The Atlantic 13
🥉 NYTimes 12
4 Bloomberg 12
5 WSJ 11
6 The Verge 10
7 The New Yorker 6
8 Motherboard 5
9 The Information 4
10 Fortune 4

🎯 Top Topics (AI Categorization)

Topics covered across 1,202 categorized links:

Rank Topic Links Percentage
🥇 Other Tech News 234 19.5%
🥈 Hardware/Chips 197 16.4%
🥉 Social Media 122 10.1%
4 Regulation/Policy 101 8.4%
5 Security/Privacy 91 7.6%
6 E-commerce/Retail 85 7.1%
7 Streaming/Entertainment 74 6.2%
8 Automotive/Mobility 69 5.7%
9 Crypto/Blockchain 59 4.9%
10 AI/Machine Learning 53 4.4%

🏢 Big Tech Company Mentions

The tech companies that dominated headlines in 2018:

Company Mentions Chart
🏆 Apple 211 ██████████████████████████████████████████
🔍 Google 210 ██████████████████████████████████████████
📦 Amazon 165 █████████████████████████████████
💼 Microsoft 73 ██████████████
🎬 Netflix 56 ███████████
🚗 Tesla 49 █████████
🎮 Nvidia 10 ██

💡 Fun Facts

  • 🏆 Most Mentioned Company: Apple dominated with 211 mentions
  • 📰 Top Daily News Source: The Verge with 112 links
  • 📖 Top Longreads Source: Wired (17 articles)
  • 📊 Links Per Episode: An average of 5.8 daily links kept listeners informed
  • 📅 Consistency: 174 daily episodes means coverage on most weekdays throughout the year
  • 🎯 Quality Curation: 1,202 total links from premium sources

📈 Key Takeaways

2018 in tech featured 1,202 curated links across 209 episodes, bringing the most important tech news to listeners.

The Ride Home covered 47.7% of 2018, bringing tech news to thousands of listeners.


Generated 01/14/26 Data source: docs/all-links-2018.md and docs/longreads-2018.md