Podtrac has published its rankings of the top podcasts and the top podcast publishers for November 2017. The company added a third chart of the top “snackable” shows for the month, but that has had little impact on the top podcasts list. Continue Reading
Podtrac has launched a third podcast ranking chart. In addition to its monthly list of the top podcast publishers and the top podcasts, the company has debuted a third ranker called Top 15 Snackable Podcasts. Insight from CEO Mark McCrery. Continue Reading
Podtrac released two special podcast ranking charts. The first lists the top 20 podcasts in the United States for 2017. The second chart is the top 10 new podcasts that were published for the first time during this year. In an impressive performance, S-Town topped both Podtrac lists. Continue Reading
Podtrac has published its ranking of the top podcasts in October 2017, a month with an unusual amount of shuffling among the most popular shows. Three podcasts joined the list for the first time, while the rest of the ranking included the same shows as in September. Continue Reading
Podtrac posted its ranking of the top 10 podcast publishers for October 2017. The new ranking features the debut of iHeartMedia at the No. 2 spot. Its 525 shows secured a U.S. unique monthly audience of nearly 8.96 million and 33.59 million global unique streams and downloads. Continue Reading
Podtrac posted its September 2017 podcast rankings. The month showed some shuffles from the previous month across the whole list. At the top, Stuff You Should Know edged out RadioLab for the No. 2 spot, although This American Life remains at the top of the heap. Continue Reading
Podtrac has published its September 2017 podcast publisher rankings. It marked a somewhat unusual month, as the list of the top publishers showed no changes in names or order from August. Continue Reading
Podtrac has posted its podcast rankings for August 2017. Most of the top 20 shows are familiar to regular readers of this monthly chart, but the August installment does show some changes worth noting. Continue Reading
Podtrac’s top podcast rankings for July 2017 remained mostly consistent with the results from June. The month included just one swap: S-Town dropped out of the top 20 and has been replaced with Panoply’s Revisionist History. S-Town was a big mover earlier in the year due to its unusual release plan. Continue Reading
The Podtrac publisher rankings showed little change after a comparative shake-up in June. The updates for the latest month are that Radiotopia, a regular name on this list, has been combined with the shows from parent network PRX. Both are now listed together as PRX, and landed at No. 4. Continue Reading
Podtrac’s June 2017 podcast rankings marked another month of shuffling. While many of the top players remained the same from May, a few familiar faces fell in the standings. The big change was NPR’s Invisibilia returning to the list, landing at the No. 4 spot. On the other side of the coin, Serial dropped out of the top 20 entirely. Continue Reading
Podtrac’s podcast publisher rankings don’t usually show much variance from month to month, but June 2017 marked the arrival of two new companies. ESPN debuted at No. 5 on the list with an audience of 3.5 million uniques in the U.S. Wondery also marked its debit, with an audience of 2.6 million U.S. uniques propelling it No. 7 on the chart. Continue Reading