In Podtrac’s Top Podcast Publishers monthly ranker for November we learn that the metrics for year-over-year and month-over-month are mostly stable. Specifically, Podtrac sent these notes:
- US UMA increased for 7 of the Top 20 publishers in November over October.
- The average US Unique Monthly Audience for the Top 20 publishers was up 1% month-over-month and flat over November 2021.
- Total Global Downloads for the Top 20 were flat both month-over-month and year-over-year.
Podtrac measures all its clients for this monthly ranker. The November list shuffles October’s ranker; no new publishers made the top 20.
RAIN Remix
The RAIN Remix of this report rearranges the listing by ranking the key metrics per active show of each publisher. This creates a different view from the original, which ranks networks as entire portfolios. The two measurements Podtrac uses for this monthly ranker are U.S. Unique Monthly Audience and Global Downloads & Streams, shown below:
The first RAIN Remix below shows the top 20 list sorted by average monthly audience per show for each publisher.
The original ranking numbers (on the left) identify each publisher to see quickly the extent to which the list is shuffled into a new order. The difference is dramatic: iHeartRadio moves from #1 to #17, and This American Life moves from #19 to #1.
In our view there is no good or bad in the remix. Different publishers have different business strategies in this regard, and they can range from piling their resources into many shows or few shows. Either way, they have landed on an elite list.
The second RAIN Remix re-sorts the original by average streams/downloads (e.g. plays) per show. The result is a light shuffle of the first remix:
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