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Serial

Serial Productions & The New York TimesNewsTrue CrimeSociety & Culture33 episodes · latest Jun 18, 2026

Serial’s biggest search strength is its ability to dominate “serial story” and “serial stories” intent, where it holds top visibility alongside strong discovery-driven terms tied to expanding reach. Its clearest missed opportunity is moving into “weekly” and “news podcast” discovery queries—areas like “new podcasts weekly,” “weekly podcast news,” and “news podcast episodes”—which it currently does not rank for.

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