Podtrac published its podcast ranker for October. While many of the top-performing shows are familiar ones for the month, there is a new addition to the analytics company’s usual format. Continue Reading
The October podcast publisher ranking from Podtrac includes a new entry. NBC News made the top ten, landing in ninth with its 24 podcasts. Continue Reading
NPR and iHeartMedia continue their tug-of-war for the lead in Podtrac’s publisher ranker, and both have several shows on the analytics company’s latest podcast chart. iHeartMedia has two shows on the ranker, while NPR has eight. Continue Reading
Podtrac released the September edition of its Top 10 Podcast Publishers list. (See below.) Podtrac notes that month-over-month reach gained one percent, while the year-over-year metric was 64% increase in unique listeners. NPR and iHeartRadio trade positions again. Kast Media enters the top-10 group. Continue Reading
Podtrac released its podcast ranker for August 2019. The month saw a critical shift in the company’s publisher chart, and iHeartRadio accompanied its new lead with three shows appearing on the podcast chart. Continue Reading
Podtrac released its Top 10 Podcast Publishers ranking this morning, noting that all 10 network producers showed audience gains from July. iHeartRadio took the #1 spot from NPR for the first time, as the two behemoth podcast producers continue to dominate Podtrac’s ranker. Continue Reading
Podtrac’s July 2019 podcast ranker revealed another month of familiar titles. The Daily continued its reign atop the chart, and with NPR’s Up First in the fourth spot, it was another month of big performances for weekday news podcasts. Continue Reading
Podtrac has attained certification from the IAB Tech Lab for its podcast measurements, as compliant with the IAB’s V2.0 guidelines and de facto industry standard. The news stands out because of Podtrac’s role in the industry as a prominent ranker of podcast audience metrics for publishers and podcast shows. Today’s announcement also contains two unique certifications of tricky measurement scenarios that Podtrac solved. Continue Reading
Podtrac shared its ranking of the top ten podcast publishers for July 2019. Overall, average U.S. monthly audience remained flat from June and rose 50% from July 2018. Continue Reading
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