How Many Ads Are in The Power Trip? We Measured 42 Episodes
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The median episode of The Power Trip carries 12.2 minutes of ads. That’s 18.7% of its runtime, measured across the 42 episodes we’ve cleaned through ZeroAds.
The Power Trip is a sports and comedy morning radio show from KFAN in Minneapolis. When someone adds it to ZeroAds, our pipeline cuts the ad segments out of each episode’s audio and logs every cut with timestamps. This page is that log, added up. Snapshot: episodes processed July 16 to August 5, 2026.
What we measured
Section titled “What we measured”| The Power Trip | |
|---|---|
| Episodes measured | 42 |
| Median ad time per episode | 12.2 minutes |
| Median ad share of runtime | 18.7% |
| Typical episode length | about 63 minutes |
| Total ad time cut | 8.5 hours |
A typical episode runs about 63 minutes, and the median episode carries 12.2 minutes of advertising. Across all 42 measured episodes, the ads add up to 8.5 hours.
How The Power Trip compares to other podcasts
Section titled “How The Power Trip compares to other podcasts”Across every show we measured this window, the median episode is 9.8% ads, about 4 minutes. The Power Trip runs nearly double that. Radio shows repackaged as podcasts usually do, since broadcast radio was built around ad breaks. The full distribution and the heaviest shows we measure are in our August 2026 podcast ad study.
About the show itself: ads are how The Power Trip gets made, and this page is a measurement, not a complaint. We’re building revenue sharing so the shows our subscribers listen to most will get paid from subscription money.
How to listen to The Power Trip without the ads
Section titled “How to listen to The Power Trip without the ads”ZeroAds serves The Power Trip back to you as a clean private feed. You keep the app you already use: the feed works in any podcast app that accepts a custom RSS URL, which is most of them. (Spotify and Amazon Music don’t accept custom feeds.)
- Sign up at zeroads.ai. Your first 5 episodes are free, so you can hear a cleaned episode of The Power Trip before paying anything.
- Add The Power Trip and play your free episodes in the ZeroAds app.
- Subscribe to get your personal ad-free RSS URL and add it to your podcast app.
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Questions
Section titled “Questions”How many ads does The Power Trip have? In our measurements (42 episodes processed July 16 to August 5, 2026), the median episode of The Power Trip carried 12.2 minutes of ads, 18.7% of its runtime.
How do I listen to The Power Trip without ads? ZeroAds cuts the ads out of each episode and serves The Power Trip as a clean private RSS feed for the app you already use, any app that accepts a custom RSS URL. Spotify and Amazon Music don’t take custom feeds. The first 5 episodes are free.
Will my episodes have the same ads you measured? Probably not exactly. Most podcast ads are inserted at download time, so your copy of an episode can carry different ads than the copy we processed. The pattern holds; the exact minutes vary.
Are these numbers exact? Close, not exact. We test the detector against hand-labeled episodes: it catches about 97-98% of labeled ad time, and about 85% of every second it cuts lands on labeled ad time, with most of the remainder on the edges of those same ads. Treat each figure as carrying a few percent of measurement error.
Measured from the 42 episodes of The Power Trip processed through ZeroAds from July 16 to August 5, 2026. Ads are inserted dynamically, so your copies may differ. Full methodology in the study.