August 2026
What each company type bought in August 2026 across newsletters and podcasts. Events aren’t here: most event lists have no date of their own.
Newsletters
We read 7,240 issues from 1,589 newsletters published in August 2026. Coverage of this month is thinner than October 2026, when we read 29,752 issues, so keep that in mind when you compare months.
By company type
| Company type | Placements | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| AI & ML | 308 | 103 |
| Developer tools | 239 | 91 |
| Sales & marketing software | 202 | 65 |
| Crypto & web3 | 189 | 35 |
| Investing & trading | 159 | 56 |
| Finance & fintech | 148 | 56 |
| Security | 139 | 50 |
| Health & wellness | 138 | 61 |
| Productivity & collaboration | 121 | 33 |
| Consumer goods | 101 | 51 |
| Data & analytics | 87 | 27 |
| E-commerce & retail | 65 | 20 |
| Education & courses | 65 | 31 |
| Newsletters | 48 | 15 |
| Food & drink | 40 | 29 |
| HR & recruiting | 29 | 19 |
| Telecom & hardware | 29 | 10 |
| Banking & insurance | 22 | 9 |
| Travel & hospitality | 16 | 11 |
| Events & conferences | 14 | 10 |
| Media & entertainment | 14 | 10 |
| Automotive | 13 | 3 |
| Real estate | 9 | 3 |
| Government & nonprofit | 3 | 2 |
| No type on file | 210 | 100 |
Most active companies
| Company | Placements | Newsletters |
|---|---|---|
| HubSpot | 41 | 18 |
| Wispr Flow | 39 | 20 |
| Polymarket | 31 | 3 |
| Atlassian | 27 | 13 |
| Slack | 23 | 2 |
| Mantle | 20 | 1 |
| Theo | 20 | 1 |
| Pendle | 19 | 1 |
| Plaid | 17 | 6 |
| Sondera | 17 | 1 |
| Superhuman AI | 16 | 4 |
| Attio | 15 | 9 |
| Roku | 15 | 7 |
| Tiger Data | 15 | 8 |
| Tracksuit | 15 | 4 |
Seen for the first time
The first newsletter placement we have for each company. We add more newsletters over time, so a company here may have bought before we started reading where it ran. The 15 with the most placements, of 331.
| Company | Placements | Newsletters |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Fox Heating & Cooling | 9 | 1 |
| Day Oral Health | 9 | 1 |
| Guaranteed Automotive & Transmission Service | 9 | 1 |
| 1Password | 8 | 5 |
| New View Exteriors & Interiors | 8 | 1 |
| Fifty | 7 | 1 |
| Mend | 7 | 1 |
| 76 | 6 | 1 |
| Boomi | 6 | 1 |
| KodeKloud | 6 | 4 |
| Miele | 6 | 1 |
| RŌG Health | 6 | 1 |
| Twilio | 6 | 1 |
| Zedcrest Wealth | 6 | 2 |
| D+M Engineering PLLC | 5 | 1 |
Podcasts
We read 2,463 episodes from 539 podcasts published in August 2026. Coverage of this month is thinner than October 2026, when we read 26,045 episodes, so keep that in mind when you compare months.
By company type
| Company type | Placements | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Health & wellness | 348 | 36 |
| E-commerce & retail | 207 | 10 |
| Finance & fintech | 163 | 21 |
| Consumer goods | 129 | 33 |
| AI & ML | 114 | 14 |
| Investing & trading | 113 | 25 |
| Security | 107 | 17 |
| Food & drink | 78 | 12 |
| Crypto & web3 | 76 | 6 |
| Developer tools | 61 | 9 |
| HR & recruiting | 59 | 5 |
| Data & analytics | 46 | 2 |
| Sales & marketing software | 42 | 8 |
| Government & nonprofit | 39 | 2 |
| Telecom & hardware | 39 | 5 |
| Education & courses | 35 | 5 |
| Productivity & collaboration | 31 | 8 |
| Travel & hospitality | 21 | 6 |
| Real estate | 14 | 1 |
| Banking & insurance | 9 | 3 |
| Automotive | 2 | 1 |
| Media & entertainment | 2 | 1 |
| Newsletters | 2 | 1 |
| No type on file | 1,975 | 466 |
Most active companies
| Company | Placements | Podcasts |
|---|---|---|
| PrizePicks | 115 | 8 |
| Shopify | 75 | 34 |
| BrickHouse Nutrition | 62 | 6 |
| Quince | 61 | 35 |
| BetterHelp | 58 | 22 |
| American Financing | 41 | 6 |
| Helix Sleep | 40 | 10 |
| AARP | 38 | 4 |
| Quo | 38 | 14 |
| DeleteMe | 34 | 8 |
| Factor | 33 | 26 |
| Birch Gold Group | 32 | 2 |
| Ethos | 32 | 12 |
| Supersure | 32 | 3 |
| Rackspace | 31 | 1 |
Seen for the first time
The first podcast placement we have for each company. We add more podcasts over time, so a company here may have bought before we started reading where it ran. The 15 with the most placements, of 139.
| Company | Placements | Podcasts |
|---|---|---|
| Harbor Capital | 16 | 1 |
| BRP | 10 | 1 |
| Spring Sleep | 10 | 2 |
| eToro | 8 | 1 |
| Solace Health | 7 | 1 |
| Homesteadliving | 6 | 1 |
| Podcast Heat | 6 | 4 |
| Saltandlightbysami | 6 | 1 |
| Save With Conrad | 6 | 4 |
| Toups and Co Organics | 6 | 1 |
| Tru Niagen | 5 | 1 |
| Alppouch | 3 | 1 |
| Evenrealities | 3 | 1 |
| Fifth Third Bank | 3 | 1 |
| Propilotworld | 3 | 1 |
Counts are the ads we’ve found from companies we could identify, by the date each ran. They don’t show spend. A company missing here may still have bought; we only count what we read. How we get this data.