The Podnews Ranker Top 30: November 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 September 1 and November 30, and how they’re trending.
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Gender balance
Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 57 mentions (29%) to women, and 142 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 27%.
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 | → 1 | Taylor Swift |
| 2 | → 2 | Joe Rogan |
| 3 | ↑ 4 | Todd Cochrane |
| 4 | ↓ 3 | John Wordock |
| 5 | ↑ 7 | Jay Shetty |
| 6 | ↑ 12 | Eric Nuzum |
| 7 | ↓ 5 | Steven Bartlett |
| 8 | ↑ 18 | Sam Sethi |
| 9 | ↑ 10 | Rachel Corbett |
| 10 | ↑ 38 | Donald Trump |
| 11 | ↑ 16 | Steven Goldstein |
| 12 | ↑ 17 | Marco Arment |
| 13 | ↑ 113 | Bill Simmons |
| 14 | ↑ 118 | Elsie Escobar |
| 15 | ↑ 20 | Rob Greenlee |
| 16 | ↑ 23 | Shawn Ryan |
| 17 | ↑ 46 | John McDermott |
| 18 | ↑ 24 | Alex Cooper |
| 19 | ↑ 54 | Ben Shapiro |
| 20 | ↑ 25 | Mike Dell |
| 21 | ↑ 26 | Malcolm Gladwell |
| 22 | ↑ 69 | Alex Norström |
| 23 | ↑ 70 | Stephanie Wittels Wachs |
| 24 | ↑ 27 | Alberto Betella |
| 25 | ↑ 73 | Chirag Desai |
| 26 | ↑ 28 | Wil Williams |
| 27 | ↑ 30 | Daniel J Lewis |
| 28 | ↑ 90 | Stephen Robles |
| 29 | ↑ 93 | Dave Portnoy |
| 30 | ↑ 32 | Nick Quah |
Source: We match names mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between September 1 and November 30, and compare these figures with mentions between August 1 and October 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.