Podtrac has published its ranking of the top 20 podcasts from June 2019. The ranker, based on the company’s measurement data for U.S. monthly audience, included several small shifts in ordering from May. Continue Reading
Podtrac released the Top 10 Podcast Publishers ranking for June. In it, the tightly competitive reign of NPR (#1) and iHeartRadio (#2) continued as in previous months. RAIN has remixed the ranker to list publishers according to the size of audience, and number of plays, per show produced by each publisher. The result shines light on the power of hit shows vs. the power of a network ecosystem. Continue Reading
Podtrac has posted its May ranking of podcast publishers. Across all of the top ten publishers, the average U.S. unique monthly audience was 8.6 million. The figure was down just 2% from April and up 41% on-year from May 2018. Continue Reading
Podtrac issued its May list of the top 20 podcasts. Weekday news programs continue to perform well in the Podtrac ranking. Continue Reading
Podtrac has published its podcast ranker for April 2019. The Daily from The New York Times continues its dominance on this chart for another month, followed by perennial favorite This American Life in the second position. Continue Reading
Podtrac has made some changes to its measurement algorithm. This change to its measurements is part of Podtrac’s efforts to receive compliance and certification from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. It had already been compliant with the IAB guidelines, but it began the official certification program in late 2018. Continue Reading
Podtrac has released its April 2019 ranking of top podcast publishers. The results show very little change from the analytics company’s March results. NPR kept its longstanding position at the top of the list. Continue Reading
The New York Times continues to top Podtrac’s monthly chart of the leading podcasts with The Daily. The Ben Shapiro show rose to the second position, surpassing This American Life for March. The monthly ranker had three new shows. Continue Reading
Podtrac has released its March 2019 podcast publisher ranking. It was a month of growth, with seven of the top ten increasing their U.S. unique monthly audience from the previous month. The average U.S. unique monthly audience for this group reached 8.2 million, edging up 1% from February 2019 and up 43% from March 2018. Continue Reading
Podtrac released a new set of data today exploring the most popular podcast topics. In both February 2019 and February 2018, the top three podcast categories were comedy, news and politics, and society and culture. Continue Reading
Podtrac has posted its ranker of the top 20 podcsats in February 2019. The chart has a few new appearances, with The Ron Burgundy Podcast on iHeartRadio debuting at No. 6. Continue Reading
Podtrac released its podcast publisher ranking for February 2019. Nine of the publishers in the ranking reported growth in their unique monthly audience in the U.S. The average U.S. unique monthly audience for these top ten publishers reached 8.1 million, up 6% from January 2019 and up 42% from February 2018. Continue Reading