2020 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 257 days
Friday Longreads Episodes 53 Fridays
Total Episodes 310 episodes
Year Coverage 70.2% of 2020

Category Links Average per Episode
Daily Show Links 1,888 7.3 links/episode
Weekend Longreads 319 6.0 links/episode
TOTAL 2,207 -

Rank Source Links
🥇 The Verge 295
🥈 TechCrunch 182
🥉 Bloomberg 152
4 CNBC 113
5 WSJ 102
6 NYTimes 81
7 Reuters 59
8 VentureBeat 49
9 9to5Mac 42
10 Engadget 42

📚 Top 10 Sources - Weekend Longreads

Rank Source Articles
🥇 NYTimes 29
🥈 Wired 24
🥉 WSJ 17
4 Fast Company 13
5 Protocol 12
6 The Verge 12
7 Bloomberg 9
8 Ars Technica 9
9 OneZero 8
10 Forbes 8

🎯 Top Topics (AI Categorization)

Topics covered across 2,207 categorized links:

Rank Topic Links Percentage
🥇 Hardware/Chips 430 19.5%
🥈 Other Tech News 392 17.8%
🥉 Regulation/Policy 231 10.5%
4 Social Media 181 8.2%
5 Security/Privacy 176 8.0%
6 Streaming/Entertainment 163 7.4%
7 Cloud/Enterprise 159 7.2%
8 E-commerce/Retail 130 5.9%
9 Gaming 118 5.3%
10 Automotive/Mobility 91 4.1%

🏢 Big Tech Company Mentions

The tech companies that dominated headlines in 2020:

Company Mentions Chart
🏆 Apple 562 ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
🔍 Google 398 ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
💼 Microsoft 208 █████████████████████████████████████████
📦 Amazon 201 ████████████████████████████████████████
🎬 Netflix 45 █████████
🎮 Nvidia 32 ██████
🚗 Tesla 31 ██████
🤖 OpenAI 2  

💡 Fun Facts

  • 🏆 Most Mentioned Company: Apple dominated with 562 mentions
  • 📰 Top Daily News Source: The Verge with 295 links
  • 📖 Top Longreads Source: NYTimes (29 articles)
  • 📊 Links Per Episode: An average of 7.3 daily links kept listeners informed
  • 📅 Consistency: 257 daily episodes means coverage on most weekdays throughout the year
  • 🎯 Quality Curation: 2,207 total links from premium sources

📈 Key Takeaways

2020 in tech featured 2,207 curated links across 310 episodes, bringing the most important tech news to listeners.

The Ride Home covered 70.2% of 2020, bringing tech news to thousands of listeners.


Generated 01/14/26 Data source: docs/all-links-2020.md and docs/longreads-2020.md