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In 2014 the podcast Serial, a reinvestigation of a true crime was the most successful podcast in history. There were 12 episodes, each brodacst weekly from October to December 2014. It was ranked first in ITunes even before it came out and continued at the number one spot four months later even after the series was finished. Apple said it was the fastest podcast in history to reach five million downloads. and the Financial Times reported in 2015 that it had been dowloaded 40 million times.