Privacy Podcast Analysis

Appear# is total appearances,  Pods# is the count of unique podcasts in the dataset where appearances occurred.

1) We analyzed over 4700 podcast episodes from 76 privacy and privacy-related podcasts. Some of these podcasts focus on guests you might deem outside the realm of privacy (cybersecurity, risk, journalists, industry execs)- sorry, that’s the data set.

2) Some podcasts have run for years and/or have hundreds of episodes. KUCI: Privacy Piracy started in 2005. Cyberwire Daily has over 1500 episodes. This can skew the results a little.

3) Most of the episodes have come in the last two years, but some are as old as 2005. 38% of episodes have occurred in the past year. 75% have occurred in the past 3 years.

4) The definition of an Expert Guest is malleable; what is the difference between a long-running guest and a co-host? Sometimes not much, sometimes a lot. It can confuse things.

5) Expert guests are often featured on the same show multiple times. This is not a good or a bad thing, but it is a thing. Experts that appear on multiple different podcasts would seem to me to have a broader appeal, but that’s not always true. Here we highlighted guests interviewed by a single podcast and those covered by multiple podcasts; it’s valuable to look at both rankings.

6) Age of the appearance/episode is not considered here.

7) We only provided detailed links and data on guests with 3 or more appearances in our dataset, but guests with 1 and 2 appearances are listed and the full dataset can be searched.