The Podnews Ranker Top 30: February 2024
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Who’s in the podcast news? Here’s a list of the people and companies we mentioned most in the three months between December 1 and February 29, and how they’re trending.
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Gender balance
Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 33 mentions (22%) to women, and 118 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 24%.
Context: Sounds Profitable’s The Creators says that only 29% of podcast creators are women, in comparison to 51% of the US population. McKinsey report that women form just 24% of senior US executives (2021). The Wrap reports that only 21% of top-charting shows have a female host (2020); Quartz puts the figure at one in three (2019); data produced for AT&T says 27% of top-rated podcasts are hosted by females (2020), a further 12% by a gender-balanced team.
Our aims
Our submissions page highlights our wish to achieve a healthy gender balance, cover news from outside the USA, and amplify the under-represented. This data is one way to keep an eye on our efforts.
Companies
1 | → 1 | Spotify |
2 | → 2 | YouTube |
3 | → 3 | Apple Podcasts |
4 | ↑ 5 | iHeart |
5 | ↓ 4 | Acast |
6 | → 6 | Libsyn |
7 | ↑ 8 | SiriusXM |
8 | ↑ 17 | Podcast Movement |
9 | ↓ 7 | Buzzsprout |
10 | → 10 | Google Podcasts |
11 | ↑ 18 | Audacy |
12 | ↓ 11 | Webby Awards |
13 | → 13 | IAB |
14 | ↑ 41 | RedCircle |
15 | ↑ 26 | AdvertiseCast |
16 | ↓ 12 | Amazon Music |
17 | ↓ 9 | Wondery |
18 | ↑ 31 | Edison Research |
19 | ↑ 24 | Megaphone |
20 | ↑ 44 | Blubrry |
21 | ↑ 53 | Transistor |
22 | ↑ 33 | NPR |
23 | ↓ 15 | Triton Digital |
24 | ↓ 20 | Global |
25 | ↑ 52 | Rephonic |
26 | ↑ 32 | Gimlet |
27 | ↓ 19 | Magellan AI |
28 | ↑ 45 | Podtrac |
29 | ↓ 16 | Tenderfoot TV |
30 | ↑ 39 | Signal Hill Insights |
People
1 | ↑ 3 | Joe Rogan |
2 | ↓ 1 | John Spurlock |
3 | ↓ 2 | Dave Jackson |
4 | ↑ 15 | Skye Pillsbury |
5 | -- | Stew Redwine |
6 | ↓ 5 | Jared Easley |
7 | ↑ 24 | Ross Adams |
8 | ↑ 25 | Sam Sethi |
9 | ↑ 89 | Dave Winer |
10 | ↓ 8 | Ashley Carman |
11 | -- | Adam Curry |
12 | ↑ 30 | Justin Jackson |
13 | ↑ 31 | Todd Cochrane |
14 | ↓ 9 | Mia Lobel |
15 | ↓ 10 | Malcolm Gladwell |
16 | ↓ 14 | Ariel Shapiro |
17 | ↑ 43 | Max Cutler |
18 | ↑ 60 | Dan Granger |
19 | ↓ 16 | Paul Vogel |
20 | -- | Jon Stewart |
21 | ↑ 22 | Marc Maron |
22 | ↑ 23 | Dave Jones |
23 | ↓ 7 | Arielle Nissenblatt |
24 | ↑ 26 | Aaron Mahnke |
25 | ↑ 91 | Daniel Ek |
26 | ↑ 28 | Rob Greenlee |
27 | ↑ 97 | Oskar Serrander |
28 | ↑ 32 | Joe Biden |
29 | -- | Harry Duran |
30 | ↑ 33 | Brian McCullough |
Source: We match names and companies mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between December 1 and February 29, and compare these figures with mentions between November 1 and January 31. Jobs, events, press releases or separate articles are not included in the above data. Where two or more people have the same number of mentions, we bias newer entries to our database. Our data does not include racial or sexual diversity.