2019 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 180 days
Friday Longreads Episodes 50 Fridays
Total Episodes 230 episodes
Year Coverage 49.3% of 2019

Category Links Average per Episode
Daily Show Links 1,312 7.3 links/episode
Weekend Longreads 310 6.2 links/episode
TOTAL 1,622 -

Rank Source Links
🥇 The Verge 194
🥈 TechCrunch 134
🥉 Bloomberg 76
4 CNBC 63
5 NYTimes 63
6 WSJ 54
7 Engadget 34
8 VentureBeat 32
9 Reuters 29
10 Wired 29

📚 Top 10 Sources - Weekend Longreads

Rank Source Articles
🥇 The Verge 18
🥈 Wired 15
🥉 NYTimes 14
4 The Atlantic 14
5 Bloomberg Businessweek 11
6 Fast Company 10
7 Ars Technica 9
8 OneZero 9
9 Forbes 9
10 TechCrunch 7

🎯 Top Topics (AI Categorization)

Topics covered across 1,622 categorized links:

Rank Topic Links Percentage
🥇 Other Tech News 295 18.2%
🥈 Hardware/Chips 283 17.4%
🥉 Security/Privacy 148 9.1%
4 Regulation/Policy 142 8.8%
5 Streaming/Entertainment 140 8.6%
6 Social Media 136 8.4%
7 E-commerce/Retail 114 7.0%
8 AI/Machine Learning 81 5.0%
9 Cloud/Enterprise 78 4.8%
10 Gaming 74 4.6%

🏢 Big Tech Company Mentions

The tech companies that dominated headlines in 2019:

Company Mentions Chart
🏆 Apple 355 ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
🔍 Google 278 ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████
📦 Amazon 211 ██████████████████████████████████████████
💼 Microsoft 104 ████████████████████
🎬 Netflix 57 ███████████
🚗 Tesla 24 ████
🎮 Nvidia 7
👤 Meta 2  

💡 Fun Facts

  • 🏆 Most Mentioned Company: Apple dominated with 355 mentions
  • 📰 Top Daily News Source: The Verge with 194 links
  • 📖 Top Longreads Source: The Verge (18 articles)
  • 📊 Links Per Episode: An average of 7.3 daily links kept listeners informed
  • 📅 Consistency: 180 daily episodes means coverage on most weekdays throughout the year
  • 🎯 Quality Curation: 1,622 total links from premium sources

📈 Key Takeaways

2019 in tech featured 1,622 curated links across 230 episodes, bringing the most important tech news to listeners.

The Ride Home covered 49.3% of 2019, bringing tech news to thousands of listeners.


Generated 01/14/26 Data source: docs/all-links-2019.md and docs/longreads-2019.md