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The Podnews Ranker Top 30: February 2025

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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 December 1 and February 28, and how they’re trending.

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Gender balance

Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 71 mentions (30%) to women, and 166 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 26%.

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.

Our aims

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→ 1Joe Rogan
2→ 2Ashley Carman
3↑ 6Arielle Nissenblatt
4↑ 9Donald Trump
5↓ 3Chris Peterson
6↑ 26Alex Cooper
7↑ 16Ashley Flowers
8↓ 5Dan Taberski
9↓ 7Justin Jackson
10↑ 62John Wordock
11↑ 24Amanda McLoughlin
12↑ 105Steve Stewart
13↑ 40Eric Nuzum
14↑ 44Pierre Bouvard
15↑ 17Tanner Campbell
16↑ 148Adam Curry
17↓ 8Tom Webster
18--Tig Notaro
19↑ 22Keke Palmer
20↑ 23Rockie Thomas
21↓ 4John McDermott
22↑ 67Steve Goldstein
23↑ 70Eric Silver
24↑ 25Travis Kelce
25↑ 28Jim Cornette
26--Casey Wilson
27↑ 99Ira Glass
28↓ 12Jay Shetty
29↑ 33Stuart Last
30↑ 34Daniel J Lewis

Source: We match names mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between December 1 and February 28, and compare these figures with mentions between November 1 and January 31. 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.

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