Brit Morin: Taylor Swift's New Heights podcast drove 500 million views rapidly
Brit Morin · #113 GPT-5 Disappoints: The End of the AI Gold Rush? · More or Less Podcast · Aug 22, 2025 · at 54:35
Brit Morin and the co-hosts debate podcast viewership metrics following Taylor Swift's appearance on Travis and Jason Kelce's podcast, New Heights.
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“According to measurement company Mondo Metrics, Taylor Swift and New Heights reached half a billion views across all of the podcast episode across social media in under 24 hours. Three hundred and seventy nine million on Instagram, sixty one million on X, fifty one million on Facebook Reels, thirty five million on TikTok, twenty million on YouTube, and a million on threads.”
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