How Many Ads Are in The Rest Is History? We've Cleaned 418 Episodes
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We’ve cleaned 418 episodes of The Rest Is History through ZeroAds. The ad numbers on this page are recent by design: they come from the 5 episodes processed between July 16 and August 5, 2026, and they’ll firm up as new episodes arrive.
The Rest Is History is Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook’s history podcast from Goalhanger. 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 Rest Is History | |
|---|---|
| Episodes measured | 5 |
| Episodes cleaned all time | 418 |
| Median ad time per episode | 6.4 minutes |
| Median ad share of runtime | 8.6% |
| Typical episode length | about 75 minutes |
A typical episode runs about 75 minutes, and the median measured episode carried 6.4 minutes of ads.
How The Rest Is History compares to other podcasts
Section titled “How The Rest Is History compares to other podcasts”Across every show we measured this window, the median episode is 9.8% ads, about 4 minutes. The Rest Is History comes in a bit under that as a share of runtime, with a couple of minutes more than the typical episode carries. 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 Rest Is History 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 Rest Is History without the ads
Section titled “How to listen to The Rest Is History without the ads”ZeroAds serves The Rest Is History 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 Rest Is History before paying anything.
- Add The Rest Is History 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 Rest Is History have? In our measurements (5 episodes processed July 16 to August 5, 2026), the median episode of The Rest Is History carried 6.4 minutes of ads, 8.6% of its runtime.
How do I listen to The Rest Is History without ads? ZeroAds cuts the ads out of each episode and serves The Rest Is History 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, and early. 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 5 episodes measured in this window, expect these figures to move more than on our larger-sample pages.
Measured from the 5 episodes of The Rest Is History processed through ZeroAds from July 16 to August 5, 2026. Ads are inserted dynamically, so your copies may differ. Full methodology in the study.