{"id":395,"date":"2006-02-13T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/gervais-podcast-breaks-world-download-record\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T20:44:58","slug":"gervais-podcast-breaks-world-download-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/gervais-podcast-breaks-world-download-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Gervais Podcast Breaks World Download Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"European Tech Wire: Gervais Podcast Breaks World Download Record\" href=\"http:\/\/www.europeantechwire.com\/etw\/2006\/02\/gervais_podcast.html\">European Tech Wire: Gervais Podcast Breaks World Download Record<\/a><br \/>\nGervais Podcast Breaks World Download Record<br \/>\nLondon &#8212; Ricky Gervais and his team have been awarded the<br \/>\nGuinness World Record for creating the world&#8217;s most-downloaded<br \/>\npodcast. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/rickygervais\">The podcasts<\/a>, which consist of random discussions<br \/>\nbetween Gervais and his friends Karl Pilkington and Stephen<br \/>\nMerchant, are downloaded an average of<strong> 261,670<\/strong> times per episode,<br \/>\nGuinness said. Gervais said Pilkington and Merchant initially wanted<br \/>\nto charge a pound for each podcast, but that he refused. <em>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had<br \/>\nnearly 3 million downloads so far,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult doing a show<br \/>\nwith two people who won&#8217;t talk to me now.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Tech Wire: Gervais Podcast Breaks World Download Record Gervais Podcast Breaks World Download Record London &#8212; Ricky Gervais and his team have been awarded the Guinness World Record for creating the world&#8217;s most-downloaded podcast. The podcasts, which consist of random discussions between Gervais and his friends Karl Pilkington and Stephen Merchant, are downloaded an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-podcasts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}