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card updated Oct 23, 2026 · 10 clips parsed · following 0 · 155,200 likes total

Engagement11.48%above average

Account summary

@thisamericanlife has 43,600 followers and 26 videos. Across the 10 parsed clips the average is 57,808 views and 5,432 likes. Engagement to views is 11.48%, which is above average for TikTok. On the newer half of the feed the response is rising (+6.57 pp). Posts roughly 1.7 times a week. An average clip reaches 133% of the follower count.

Followers

43.6K

+20.4K in period

Engagement

11.48%

+6.57 pp newer half

Average views

57.8K

median 19.8K

Likes per clip

5.4K

111 comments avg

Shares / saves

1.1K / 393

0.68% of viewers save

Posting rate

1.7 / wk

reach 133% of followers

Latest clips

10 collected

Every morning, Myra Flynn finds herself in a standoff with her daughte — @thisamericanlife

8800:29Every morning, Myra Flynn finds herself in a standoff with her daughter over her hair. Recently, to understand why these44000

Get your tickets today for our live performance in Los Angeles at Wils — @thisamericanlife

1.6K0:46Get your tickets today for our live performance in Los Angeles at Wilshire Ebell Theatre on October 9. Ira will tell sto54202

Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote in The New York Times Magazine about the sch — @thisamericanlife

47.4K0:44Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote in The New York Times Magazine about the school she chose for her daughter, and it launched co2.8K58188311

The distance between two generations can feel vast. Our latest episode — @thisamericanlife

7.2K0:40The distance between two generations can feel vast. Our latest episode has people trying to cross it, with a wedding toa43262218

Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They — @thisamericanlife

327.8K1:31Some NPR podcasts started getting mysterious comments on Spotify. They made no sense to the staff reading them – until s38.3K65510.1K2.8K

Ike Sriskandarajah's teenage job was working concessions at a movie th — @thisamericanlife

2.6K0:42Ike Sriskandarajah's teenage job was working concessions at a movie theater in Madison, Wisconsin, cummerbund included. 171263

A college student connected two Claude chatbots to talk to each other. — @thisamericanlife

123.7K1:01A college student connected two Claude chatbots to talk to each other. Each one insisted it was the real AI, and the oth6.5K144448567

With news about the USS Abraham Lincoln and the strain on its crew, Ir — @thisamericanlife

20K1:02With news about the USS Abraham Lincoln and the strain on its crew, Ira looks back at the time he got a real glimpse of 1.7K382489

People kept asking comedian @janet.mcnamara the same question, for yea — @thisamericanlife

19.5K1:30People kept asking comedian @janet.mcnamara the same question, for years: have you ever thought you might be autistic? H2K3389111

When he was a kid, Tobin's dad called him "husky." He's still thinking — @thisamericanlife

27.4K1:18When he was a kid, Tobin's dad called him "husky." He's still thinking about it. What's the label you can't shake? This 2.3K1718980

Engagement per clip

10 parsed clips · newest on the right · click a bar to open the clip peak: 15.0% ER

Aug 17Sep 23Sep 28

Date	Views	Likes	Comments	Shares	Saves	ER
Sep 28, 2026	880	44	0	0	0	5.00%
Sep 26, 2026	1,586	54	2	0	2	3.53%
Sep 25, 2026	47,400	2,799	58	188	311	6.42%
Sep 25, 2026	7,236	432	6	22	18	6.36%
Sep 23, 2026	327,800	38,300	655	10,100	2,753	14.96%
Sep 21, 2026	2,581	171	2	6	3	6.94%
Aug 31, 2026	123,700	6,514	144	448	567	5.74%
Aug 27, 2026	20,000	1,697	38	24	89	8.79%
Aug 21, 2026	19,500	1,960	33	89	111	10.68%
Aug 17, 2026	27,400	2,346	171	89	80	9.51%