The Podnews Ranker Top 30: June 2024
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Who’s in the podcast news? Here’s a list of the people and companies we mentioned most in the three months between April 1 and June 30, and how they’re trending.
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Gender balance
Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 45 mentions (26%) to women, and 125 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 29%.
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.
Companies
| 1 | → 1 | Spotify |
| 2 | → 2 | YouTube |
| 3 | → 3 | Apple Podcasts |
| 4 | → 4 | IAB |
| 5 | ↑ 6 | Acast |
| 6 | ↓ 5 | iHeart |
| 7 | ↑ 13 | Google Podcasts |
| 8 | ↓ 7 | SiriusXM |
| 9 | ↑ 10 | Libsyn |
| 10 | ↓ 8 | Global |
| 11 | ↑ 12 | Edison Research |
| 12 | ↑ 14 | Buzzsprout |
| 13 | ↓ 9 | Wondery |
| 14 | ↓ 11 | Pocket Casts |
| 15 | ↑ 20 | Podtrac |
| 16 | ↑ 17 | Audacy |
| 17 | ↑ 19 | NPR |
| 18 | ↑ 28 | New York Times |
| 19 | ↑ 27 | Podbean |
| 20 | ↓ 15 | Megaphone |
| 21 | ↑ 29 | Triton Digital |
| 22 | ↑ 26 | Podcast Business Journal |
| 23 | ↓ 16 | Podcast Movement |
| 24 | ↑ 30 | SCA |
| 25 | ↑ 33 | Descript |
| 26 | ↑ 34 | Magellan AI |
| 27 | ↑ 74 | Sounds Profitable |
| 28 | ↓ 25 | Veritonic |
| 29 | ↓ 21 | RedCircle |
| 30 | ↓ 22 | Captivate |
People
| 1 | ↑ 2 | Sam Sethi |
| 2 | ↑ 6 | Max Cutler |
| 3 | ↑ 9 | Danny Brown |
| 4 | ↓ 1 | John Spurlock |
| 5 | ↓ 3 | Ashley Carman |
| 6 | ↑ 7 | Steve Pratt |
| 7 | ↑ 25 | Adam Bowie |
| 8 | ↑ 27 | Will Page |
| 9 | ↑ 12 | Jon Stewart |
| 10 | ↓ 5 | Steven Goldstein |
| 11 | ↑ 122 | Dave Winer |
| 12 | ↑ 34 | Jordan Harbinger |
| 13 | -- | Tom Webster |
| 14 | ↑ 18 | Mia Lobel |
| 15 | ↑ 43 | Leo Schofield |
| 16 | ↑ 19 | Christiana Brenton |
| 17 | ↑ 20 | Anna Sale |
| 18 | ↑ 22 | Ariel Shapiro |
| 19 | ↓ 8 | Wil Williams |
| 20 | ↑ 23 | Kara Swisher |
| 21 | ↓ 11 | Dino Sofos |
| 22 | ↑ 24 | Georgie Holt |
| 23 | ↑ 26 | Bandrew Scott |
| 24 | ↑ 96 | Alex Sanfilippo |
| 25 | ↑ 101 | Richard Kramer |
| 26 | ↑ 102 | Nick Quah |
| 27 | ↑ 28 | Pierre Bouvard |
| 28 | ↑ 111 | Maribel Quezada Smith |
| 29 | → 29 | Brad Hill |
| 30 | ↓ 13 | Elon Musk |
Source: We match names and companies mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between April 1 and June 30, and compare these figures with mentions between March 1 and May 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.