Audience size is not the same as quality. These newer or smaller shows score at the top on measured substance, so they earn a spotlight regardless of view count.
Worth your ears
- Gradient Dissent: 156.8K views. density 64, specificity 66, attribution 41%. Listen
- Last Week in AI: 8.6K views. density 61, specificity 63, attribution 44%. Listen
- Y Combinator: 92.2K views. density 33, specificity 75, attribution 70%, track record 70% (4/5 calls). Listen
- The Gradient Podcast: 7.6K views. density 16, specificity 68, attribution 71%, track record 100% (3/3 calls). Listen
- Machine Learning Street Talk: 617.4K views. density 21, specificity 65, attribution 68%. Listen
- The TWIML AI Podcast: 813 views. density 21, specificity 65, attribution 67%. Listen
- The Cognitive Revolution: 28.9K views. density 34, specificity 60, attribution 43%. Listen
- Doom Debates: 399.5K views. density 34, specificity 57, attribution 47%, track record 33% (1/3 calls). Listen
How we score: every show is graded from its episode transcripts on information density (named companies, people, figures, and mechanisms per minute), specificity (concrete, checkable claims versus vague punditry), source attribution (how often a claim credits where it came from), and a prediction track record we resolve against what actually happened. The full, continuously updated board lives at the podcast rankings.