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 |
🔗 Links Shared
| Category |
Links |
Average per Episode |
| Daily Show Links |
1,017 |
5.8 links/episode |
| Weekend Longreads |
185 |
5.3 links/episode |
| TOTAL |
1,202 |
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📰 Top 10 Sources - Daily Show Links
| 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:
🏢 Big Tech Company Mentions
The tech companies that dominated headlines in 2018:
| Company |
Mentions |
Chart |
| 🏆 Apple |
211 |
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| 🔍 Google |
210 |
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| 📦 Amazon |
165 |
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| 💼 Microsoft |
73 |
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| 🎬 Netflix |
56 |
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| 🚗 Tesla |
49 |
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| 🎮 Nvidia |
10 |
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💡 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 |