The Podnews Ranker Top 30: April 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 February 1 and April 30, and how they’re trending.
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Gender balance
Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 52 mentions (28%) to women, and 136 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 20%.
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 | ↑ 3 | YouTube |
| 3 | ↓ 2 | Apple Podcasts |
| 4 | → 4 | iHeart |
| 5 | ↑ 9 | Acast |
| 6 | ↑ 7 | SiriusXM |
| 7 | ↓ 6 | Podcast Movement |
| 8 | → 8 | Audacy |
| 9 | ↑ 10 | Global |
| 10 | ↑ 18 | IAB |
| 11 | ↓ 5 | Libsyn |
| 12 | → 12 | Wondery |
| 13 | ↑ 21 | Google Podcasts |
| 14 | ↓ 13 | Buzzsprout |
| 15 | ↓ 14 | RedCircle |
| 16 | ↓ 11 | Blubrry |
| 17 | ↓ 15 | Edison Research |
| 18 | ↓ 16 | Megaphone |
| 19 | ↑ 22 | Veritonic |
| 20 | ↑ 27 | New York Times |
| 21 | ↑ 42 | Podcast Business Journal |
| 22 | ↓ 20 | Amazon Music |
| 23 | ↑ 73 | Pocket Casts |
| 24 | ↑ 28 | Podtrac |
| 25 | ↓ 17 | AdvertiseCast |
| 26 | ↓ 19 | Triton Digital |
| 27 | ↑ 30 | Spreaker |
| 28 | ↑ 61 | Captivate |
| 29 | ↑ 33 | PRX |
| 30 | ↑ 32 | Podpage |
People
| 1 | → 1 | Joe Rogan |
| 2 | ↑ 21 | Sam Sethi |
| 3 | → 3 | Adam Curry |
| 4 | ↓ 2 | John Spurlock |
| 5 | → 5 | Ashley Carman |
| 6 | ↑ 14 | Wil Williams |
| 7 | ↓ 4 | Malcolm Gladwell |
| 8 | ↑ 15 | Lisa Laporte |
| 9 | ↓ 6 | Stew Redwine |
| 10 | ↑ 16 | Jon Stewart |
| 11 | ↑ 18 | Steven Goldstein |
| 12 | ↑ 19 | Ross Adams |
| 13 | ↑ 99 | Dan Misener |
| 14 | ↓ 10 | Dave Winer |
| 15 | ↓ 11 | Joe Biden |
| 16 | ↑ 29 | Mia Lobel |
| 17 | -- | Christiana Brenton |
| 18 | -- | Anna Sale |
| 19 | -- | Ariel Shapiro |
| 20 | ↓ 13 | Max Cutler |
| 21 | ↑ 53 | Danny Brown |
| 22 | ↑ 72 | Dino Sofos |
| 23 | ↑ 73 | Andrew Goldsmith |
| 24 | -- | Georgie Holt |
| 25 | ↑ 89 | Pierre Bouvard |
| 26 | ↓ 8 | Elon Musk |
| 27 | ↓ 9 | Dave Jones |
| 28 | ↑ 95 | Arielle Nissenblatt |
| 29 | ↑ 96 | Andrew Gold |
| 30 | ↓ 20 | Matt Deegan |
Source: We match names and companies mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between February 1 and April 30, and compare these figures with mentions between January 1 and March 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.