2024 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 245 days
Friday Longreads Episodes 49 Fridays
Total Episodes 294 episodes
Year Coverage 66.9% of 2024

Category Links Average per Episode
Daily Show Links 1,556 6.4 links/episode
Weekend Longreads 120 2.4 links/episode
TOTAL 1,676 -

Rank Source Links
🥇 Bloomberg 250
🥈 The Verge 246
🥉 TechCrunch 138
4 WSJ 94
5 FT 85
6 Reuters 59
7 CNBC 58
8 NYTimes 55
9 The Information 45
10 VentureBeat 42

📚 Top 10 Sources - Weekend Longreads

Rank Source Articles
🥇 Bloomberg 15
🥈 NYTimes 12
🥉 The Verge 11
4 Wired 10
5 WSJ 8
6 The Atlantic 5
7 The New Yorker 5
8 Ars Technica 4
9 FT 3
10 New York Magazine 3

🎯 Top Topics (AI Categorization)

Topics covered across 1,676 categorized links:

Rank Topic Links Percentage
🥇 AI/Machine Learning 460 27.4%
🥈 Hardware/Chips 304 18.1%
🥉 Regulation/Policy 200 11.9%
4 Other Tech News 179 10.7%
5 Security/Privacy 93 5.5%
6 Social Media 92 5.5%
7 Streaming/Entertainment 88 5.3%
8 Gaming 67 4.0%
9 Cloud/Enterprise 55 3.3%
10 Automotive/Mobility 44 2.6%

🏢 Big Tech Company Mentions

The tech companies that dominated headlines in 2024:

Company Mentions Chart
🏆 Apple 453 ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
🤖 OpenAI 282 ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
🔍 Google 278 ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████
💼 Microsoft 207 █████████████████████████████████████████
👤 Meta 124 ████████████████████████
📦 Amazon 103 ████████████████████
🎮 Nvidia 93 ██████████████████
🤖 Anthropic 45 █████████
🎬 Netflix 43 ████████
🚗 Tesla 20 ████

💡 Fun Facts

  • 🏆 Most Mentioned Company: Apple dominated with 453 mentions - hardware and services still commanded attention
  • 📰 Top Daily News Source: Bloomberg with 250 links
  • 📖 Top Longreads Source: Bloomberg (15 articles)
  • 📊 Links Per Episode: An average of 6.4 daily links kept listeners informed
  • 📅 Consistency: 245 daily episodes means coverage on most weekdays throughout the year
  • 🎯 Quality Curation: 1,676 total links from premium sources

📈 Key Takeaways

2024 saw Apple dominate headlines with 458 mentions, but the AI revolution was brewing with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft heavily featured. The transition year before AI took center stage.

The Ride Home covered 66.9% of 2024, bringing tech news to thousands of listeners.


Generated 01/14/26 Data source: docs/all-links-2024.md and docs/longreads-2024.md