The chart “average plays of episodes produced in each topic” shows how many times, on average, each podcast episode in each topic has been listened to. This method helps remove the effect of having many or few episodes on the statistics, making it possible to see which topic is actually more popular. For example, although the topic “books of philosophy, history, and nonfiction narratives” has the highest total views at 406,360,054, when the number of episodes is taken into account, “one-on-one conversations” has the highest average views at 15,132 per episode, and “books (philosophy, history, and nonfiction narratives)” ranks second with an average of 14,080 views. The topics “psychology and health” and “education and personal development” have each averaged more than 5,000 views per episode. By contrast, the topics “religion” with 333 views and “economics, politics, and sociology” with 988 views per episode have the lowest averages. In fact, this average-views figure can reveal the listening tastes of Iranian audiences of Persian podcasts, and the results also support the claim that the greatest interest has been expressed in human, personal, and social topics.
The second chart is meant to show the most prolific channels by topic without taking the number of channels into account. That is, religion channels have produced an average of 96 episodes, which shows they are the most prolific channels among the various topics. Next is the topic of travel and migration with 87 episodes, and art, music, poetry, and literature with 62 episodes in the following rank. The lowest average production also belongs to the topic “games, entertainment, and cinema” with 26 episodes, followed by “education and personal development” and “science and technology” with 29 episodes, which have the lowest average episode production.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian