Subscribe by email, free
Your daily briefing for podcasting and on-demand
An up arrow and a down arrow
Image: Susan Q Yin

The Podnews Ranker Top 30: February 2024

- updated monthly

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.

We currently have 30,447 subscribers, all across the world. Here’s more about Podnews.

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→ 1Spotify
2→ 2YouTube
3→ 3Apple Podcasts
4↑ 5iHeart
5↓ 4Acast
6→ 6Libsyn
7↑ 8SiriusXM
8↑ 17Podcast Movement
9↓ 7Buzzsprout
10→ 10Google Podcasts
11↑ 18Audacy
12↓ 11Webby Awards
13→ 13IAB
14↑ 41RedCircle
15↑ 26AdvertiseCast
16↓ 12Amazon Music
17↓ 9Wondery
18↑ 31Edison Research
19↑ 24Megaphone
20↑ 44Blubrry
21↑ 53Transistor
22↑ 33NPR
23↓ 15Triton Digital
24↓ 20Global
25↑ 52Rephonic
26↑ 32Gimlet
27↓ 19Magellan AI
28↑ 45Podtrac
29↓ 16Tenderfoot TV
30↑ 39Signal Hill Insights

People

1↑ 3Joe Rogan
2↓ 1John Spurlock
3↓ 2Dave Jackson
4↑ 15Skye Pillsbury
5--Stew Redwine
6↓ 5Jared Easley
7↑ 24Ross Adams
8↑ 25Sam Sethi
9↑ 89Dave Winer
10↓ 8Ashley Carman
11--Adam Curry
12↑ 30Justin Jackson
13↑ 31Todd Cochrane
14↓ 9Mia Lobel
15↓ 10Malcolm Gladwell
16↓ 14Ariel Shapiro
17↑ 43Max Cutler
18↑ 60Dan Granger
19↓ 16Paul Vogel
20--Jon Stewart
21↑ 22Marc Maron
22↑ 23Dave Jones
23↓ 7Arielle Nissenblatt
24↑ 26Aaron Mahnke
25↑ 91Daniel Ek
26↑ 28Rob Greenlee
27↑ 97Oskar Serrander
28↑ 32Joe Biden
29--Harry Duran
30↑ 33Brian 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.

Get a global view on podcasting and on-demand with our daily news briefing