2021 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 264 days
Friday Longreads Episodes 50 Fridays
Total Episodes 314 episodes
Year Coverage 72.3% of 2021

Category Links Average per Episode
Daily Show Links 1,657 6.3 links/episode
Weekend Longreads 273 5.5 links/episode
TOTAL 1,930 -

Rank Source Links
🥇 The Verge 298
🥈 Bloomberg 157
🥉 TechCrunch 129
4 CNBC 112
5 WSJ 108
6 NYTimes 51
7 FT 37
8 Engadget 35
9 Reuters 33
10 Axios 28

📚 Top 10 Sources - Weekend Longreads

Rank Source Articles
🥇 NYTimes 23
🥈 WSJ 20
🥉 Bloomberg 18
4 The Verge 17
5 Bloomberg Businessweek 12
6 Wired 10
7 The Atlantic 10
8 The New Yorker 9
9 Protocol 8
10 CNBC 6

🎯 Top Topics (AI Categorization)

Topics covered across 1,930 categorized links:

Rank Topic Links Percentage
🥇 Hardware/Chips 351 18.2%
🥈 Other Tech News 282 14.6%
🥉 Social Media 210 10.9%
4 Regulation/Policy 187 9.7%
5 Crypto/Blockchain 169 8.8%
6 Security/Privacy 168 8.7%
7 Streaming/Entertainment 115 6.0%
8 Cloud/Enterprise 107 5.5%
9 E-commerce/Retail 94 4.9%
10 Gaming 88 4.6%

🏢 Big Tech Company Mentions

The tech companies that dominated headlines in 2021:

Company Mentions Chart
🏆 Apple 520 ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
🔍 Google 246 █████████████████████████████████████████████████
📦 Amazon 198 ███████████████████████████████████████
💼 Microsoft 176 ███████████████████████████████████
🚗 Tesla 55 ███████████
🎬 Netflix 53 ██████████
👤 Meta 38 ███████
🎮 Nvidia 33 ██████
🤖 OpenAI 9

💡 Fun Facts

  • 🏆 Most Mentioned Company: Apple dominated with 520 mentions
  • 📰 Top Daily News Source: The Verge with 298 links
  • 📖 Top Longreads Source: NYTimes (23 articles)
  • 📊 Links Per Episode: An average of 6.3 daily links kept listeners informed
  • 📅 Consistency: 264 daily episodes means coverage on most weekdays throughout the year
  • 🎯 Quality Curation: 1,930 total links from premium sources

📈 Key Takeaways

2021 in tech featured 1,930 curated links across 314 episodes, bringing the most important tech news to listeners.

The Ride Home covered 72.3% of 2021, bringing tech news to thousands of listeners.


Generated 01/14/26 Data source: docs/all-links-2021.md and docs/longreads-2021.md