Around this time of year, I often hear these types of questions:

“Should our podcast take a holiday break?” or “Is it a bad idea to publish a new episode on December 25?”

Earlier this week, I wrote about how Apple seems to be using AI to automatically tag podcast episodes with topics. In that piece, I suggested Apple’s episode topic data could improve podcast search and discovery.

Earlier this year, I noticed something unexpected on Apple Podcasts web pages: a list of episode topics.

I’ve long been interested in Spotify’s podcast recommendation system, mostly because it uses a different strategy than its competitors.