The Podnews Ranker Top 30: March 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 January 1 and March 31, and how they’re trending.
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Gender balance
Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 32 mentions (20%) to women, and 128 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 22%.
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
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Companies
| 1 | → 1 | Spotify |
| 2 | ↑ 3 | Apple Podcasts |
| 3 | ↓ 2 | YouTube |
| 4 | → 4 | iHeart |
| 5 | ↑ 6 | Libsyn |
| 6 | ↑ 8 | Podcast Movement |
| 7 | → 7 | SiriusXM |
| 8 | ↑ 11 | Audacy |
| 9 | ↓ 5 | Acast |
| 10 | ↑ 24 | Global |
| 11 | ↑ 20 | Blubrry |
| 12 | ↑ 17 | Wondery |
| 13 | ↓ 9 | Buzzsprout |
| 14 | → 14 | RedCircle |
| 15 | ↑ 18 | Edison Research |
| 16 | ↑ 19 | Megaphone |
| 17 | ↓ 15 | AdvertiseCast |
| 18 | ↓ 13 | IAB |
| 19 | ↑ 23 | Triton Digital |
| 20 | ↓ 16 | Amazon Music |
| 21 | ↓ 10 | Google Podcasts |
| 22 | ↑ 41 | Veritonic |
| 23 | ↓ 12 | Webby Awards |
| 24 | ↑ 49 | Evergreen Podcasts |
| 25 | ↑ 26 | Gimlet |
| 26 | ↑ 39 | Stitcher |
| 27 | ↑ 51 | New York Times |
| 28 | → 28 | Podtrac |
| 29 | ↑ 40 | Bloomberg |
| 30 | ↑ 77 | Spreaker |
People
| 1 | → 1 | Joe Rogan |
| 2 | → 2 | John Spurlock |
| 3 | ↑ 11 | Adam Curry |
| 4 | ↑ 15 | Malcolm Gladwell |
| 5 | ↑ 10 | Ashley Carman |
| 6 | ↓ 5 | Stew Redwine |
| 7 | ↓ 6 | Jared Easley |
| 8 | ↑ 87 | Elon Musk |
| 9 | ↑ 22 | Dave Jones |
| 10 | ↓ 9 | Dave Winer |
| 11 | ↑ 28 | Joe Biden |
| 12 | ↑ 37 | Scott Johnson |
| 13 | ↑ 17 | Max Cutler |
| 14 | ↑ 48 | Wil Williams |
| 15 | -- | Lisa Laporte |
| 16 | ↑ 20 | Jon Stewart |
| 17 | ↓ 3 | Dave Jackson |
| 18 | -- | Steven Goldstein |
| 19 | ↓ 7 | Ross Adams |
| 20 | ↑ 90 | Matt Deegan |
| 21 | ↓ 8 | Sam Sethi |
| 22 | ↑ 24 | Aaron Mahnke |
| 23 | ↑ 97 | Paula Szuchman |
| 24 | ↑ 101 | Evo Terra |
| 25 | ↓ 12 | Justin Jackson |
| 26 | ↑ 27 | Oskar Serrander |
| 27 | ↓ 13 | Todd Cochrane |
| 28 | ↑ 29 | Harry Duran |
| 29 | ↓ 14 | Mia Lobel |
| 30 | -- | Josh Widdicombe |
Source: We match names and companies mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between January 1 and March 31, and compare these figures with mentions between December 1 and February 29. 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.