
Serial
by Serial Productions & The New York Times
Is this your podcast?Serial Productions, in collaboration with The New York Times, is acclaimed for pioneering narrative-driven podcasts that have reshaped the audio storytelling landscape. They are recognized for their meticulous research and compelling storyt…
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Audience Interest
- true crime stories
- societal issues
Podcast Focus
- narrative storytelling
- real-life crime cases
Publishing Consistency
- active for 11 years
- weekly episode release
Platform Reach
- available on Apple Podcasts
- available on Spotify
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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 29 chart positions in 29 markets.
By chart position
- 🇺🇸US · News#32100K to 300K
- 🇬🇧GB · News#5930K to 100K
- 🇨🇦CA · News#6230K to 100K
- 🇦🇺AU · News#8630K to 100K
- 🇮🇳IN · News#6710K to 30K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
160K to 508K🎙 ~2x weekly·118 episodes·Last published 2mo ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
319K to 1.0M🇺🇸30%🇬🇧10%🇨🇦10%+26 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
128K to 406K2.2M real followers tracked across platforms
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From 10 epsHosts
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Recent episodes
The Idiot - Chapter 5
Mar 26, 2026
28m 53s
The Idiot - Chapter 4
Mar 26, 2026
1h 02m 44s
The Idiot - Chapter 3
Mar 26, 2026
50m 05s
The Idiot - Chapter 2
Mar 26, 2026
49m 53s
The Idiot - Chapter 1
Mar 26, 2026
21m 43s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3/26/26 | ![]() The Idiot - Chapter 5✨ | family dynamicscrime+3 | — | — | — | AllenM.+5 | — | 28m 53s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() The Idiot - Chapter 4✨ | interviewsfamily dynamics+4 | Allen | The Idiot | — | interviewmurder+5 | — | 1h 02m 44s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() The Idiot - Chapter 3✨ | trialmurder-for-hire+3 | — | FBI | San Francisco | trialFBI+5 | — | 50m 05s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() The Idiot - Chapter 2✨ | betrayalromance+4 | Priscilla | — | RussiaMoscow+2 | PriscillaAllen+7 | — | 49m 53s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() The Idiot - Chapter 1✨ | family dynamicssuspicion+3 | — | — | Cape CodMoscow | kidnappingfamily+3 | — | 21m 43s | |
| 3/19/26 | ![]() The Idiot - Trailer✨ | totalitarianismterrorism+3 | M. Gessen | The New York Times | — | M. GessenAllen+5 | — | 1m 51s | |
| 10/30/25 | ![]() The Preventionist - Ep. 3✨ | abuseparenting+3 | — | — | — | abusesafety+3 | — | 58m 20s | |
| 10/30/25 | ![]() The Preventionist - Ep. 2✨ | pediatricschild medicine+3 | — | child medicine | Pennsylvania | pediatricianchild medicine+3 | — | 49m 55s | |
| 10/30/25 | ![]() The Preventionist - Ep. 1✨ | true crimeinvestigation+3 | — | — | Lehigh Valley | Lehigh Valleyinvestigation+3 | — | 40m 23s | |
| 10/16/25 | ![]() The Preventionist - Trailer✨ | medical ethicschild protection+3 | — | Pennsylvaniachild abuse pediatrician | — | pediatricianchild abuse+3 | — | 3m 15s | |
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| 8/7/25 | ![]() The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 4 | Sometimes you can’t wait for research to tell you what to do — you just have to go ahead and do it. We get back on L&D with Clara, Mindy and Heather. | — | ||||||
| 8/7/25 | ![]() The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 3 | Pain during a cesarean section isn’t a new problem. But for a long time, it’s been a hidden one. In England, a patient named Susanna not only brings the problem to doctors’ attention, but also tries to solve it. | — | ||||||
| 8/7/25 | ![]() The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 2 | What went wrong with Clara’s delivery? And can Heather get doctors to talk about it? | — | ||||||
| 8/7/25 | ![]() The Retrievals S02 - Ep. 1 | Clara is a labor and delivery nurse, so she has a pretty good idea of what to expect when she delivers her own twins at the same hospital where she works. But she wasn’t prepared for this. | — | ||||||
| 7/10/25 | ![]() The Retrievals S02 - Trailer | C-sections are the most frequently performed major surgeries in the world. So why do so many patients feel severe pain during them? Season 2 of the award-winning podcast “The Retrievals” is an investigation into this underreported problem — and the new effort to solve it. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. | — | ||||||
| 2/27/25 | ![]() The Good Whale - Ep. 6 | After a month at sea, Keiko pops up near a Norwegian fishing village, causing a stir among the residents and his own team of caretakers. They figure that if they wait until spring, maybe Keiko will swim off again with a wild pod. If they can all just make it to spring. | — | ||||||
| 2/27/25 | ![]() The Good Whale - Ep. 5 | Keiko disappears in Icelandic waters, swimming east for four weeks. Unobserved, with no human contact. Since nobody knows what happened to Keiko during that mysterious time, we decided to recreate it — as a musical. From Keiko’s perspective, naturally. Watch the music video for "The Ballad of Keiko" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1k1TQ2Lh0o | — | ||||||
| 2/27/25 | ![]() The Good Whale - Ep. 4 | A fresh training team takes a hard-line approach and doubles down on breaking Keiko’s bond with humans. By summer it seems to be working, until one day Keiko swims away. This is the moment they’ve all been waiting for. | — | ||||||
| 2/27/25 | ![]() The Good Whale - Ep. 3 | Keiko finally arrives in Iceland, where years of preparation will be put to the test when Keiko gets his first chance to interact with orcas in the wild — something he hasn’t done since he was a calf. It does not go according to plan. | — | ||||||
| 1/2/25 | ![]() The Good Whale - Ep. 2 | Keiko has a new tank in Oregon and a dream team of experts that gets him into shape. But soon they start fighting over what a realistic future looks like for this golden retriever of an orca. | — | ||||||
| 1/2/25 | ![]() The Good Whale - Ep. 1 | When the movie “Free Willy” is released, word gets out that the star, a killer whale named Keiko, is sick and living in a tiny pool at a Mexican amusement park. An environmentalist sets out to give the fans what they want: their favorite celebrity orca back in the sea. | — | ||||||
| 11/7/24 | ![]() The Good Whale - Trailer | After the movie “Free Willy” became a hit, word got out that the star of the film, a killer whale named Keiko, was sick and living in a tiny pool at a Mexican amusement park. Fans were outraged and pleaded for his release. “The Good Whale” tells the story of the wildly ambitious science experiment to return Keiko to the ocean — while the world watched. An epic tale that starts in Mexico and ends in Norway, the six-episode series follows Keiko as he’s transported from country to country, each time landing in the hands of well-intentioned people who believe they know what’s best for him – people who still disagree, decades later, about whether they did the right thing. | — | ||||||
| 5/16/24 | ![]() Serial S04 - Ep. 9: This Is the Weirdness | The criminal case against the men accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks is the one aspect of Guantánamo that would seem to make sense – until you start watching it. | — | ||||||
| 5/9/24 | ![]() Serial S04 - Ep. 8: Two Ledgers | Majid Khan spent years locked away in CIA black sites. What would he tell the world when he finally got the chance to speak? | — | ||||||
| 5/2/24 | ![]() Serial S04 - Ep. 7: The Forever Reporter | One reporter has been covering Guantánamo since the day the prison opened. The military would like her to go home now. | — | ||||||
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