The Podnews Ranker Top 30: December 2024
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Who’s in the podcast news? Here’s a list of the people we mentioned most in the three months between October 1 and December 31, and how they’re trending.
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Gender balance
Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 122 mentions (33%) to women, and 250 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 36%.
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.
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Our submissions page highlights our wish to achieve a healthy gender balance, cover news from outside the USA, and amplify the under-represented. This data is one way to keep an eye on our efforts.
People
| 1 | → 1 | Joe Rogan |
| 2 | → 2 | Justin Jackson |
| 3 | ↑ 9 | Donald Trump |
| 4 | ↑ 29 | Chris Peterson |
| 5 | ↑ 10 | Taylor Swift |
| 6 | ↑ 38 | Steven Bartlett |
| 7 | ↓ 6 | Ashley Carman |
| 8 | ↓ 7 | Tom Webster |
| 9 | ↓ 8 | Chris Stone |
| 10 | ↓ 3 | John McDermott |
| 11 | → 11 | Maya Prohovnik |
| 12 | ↓ 4 | Max Cutler |
| 13 | ↑ 36 | Jay Shetty |
| 14 | ↑ 345 | Joni Deutsch |
| 15 | ↓ 13 | Adam Bowie |
| 16 | ↓ 14 | Bandrew Scott |
| 17 | ↑ 40 | Elon Musk |
| 18 | ↑ 374 | Arielle Nissenblatt |
| 19 | ↓ 15 | Jeremy Enns |
| 20 | ↑ 44 | Bill Simmons |
| 21 | ↓ 17 | Craig Hewitt |
| 22 | ↓ 18 | Sir Michael Parkinson |
| 23 | ↑ 86 | Keke Palmer |
| 24 | ↓ 19 | Tom Price |
| 25 | ↓ 20 | Rae Wynn |
| 26 | ↓ 21 | Brendan Monaghan |
| 27 | ↓ 22 | Sandy Wilheim |
| 28 | ↓ 23 | Kamala Harris |
| 29 | ↑ 158 | Liz Plank |
| 30 | ↓ 26 | Rockie Thomas |
Source: We match names mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between October 1 and December 31, and compare these figures with mentions between September 1 and November 30. 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.