The Podnews Ranker Top 30: March 2026
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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 January 1 and March 31, and how they’re trending.
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Gender balance
Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 55 mentions (26%) to women, and 155 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 25%.
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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People
| 1 | ↑ 2 | Joe Rogan |
| 2 | ↓ 1 | Rob Walch |
| 3 | ↑ 4 | Dave Jackson |
| 4 | ↓ 3 | Bill Simmons |
| 5 | ↑ 7 | Jay Shetty |
| 6 | ↑ 10 | Arielle Nissenblatt |
| 7 | ↑ 20 | Tom Webster |
| 8 | ↑ 13 | Kara Swisher |
| 9 | ↑ 35 | John Spurlock |
| 10 | ↑ 11 | Mathew Passy |
| 11 | ↓ 6 | John McDermott |
| 12 | ↑ 29 | Siobhán McHugh |
| 13 | -- | Stephen Robles |
| 14 | ↑ 15 | Eric Nuzum |
| 15 | ↑ 16 | Ashley Flowers |
| 16 | ↓ 8 | Steven Bartlett |
| 17 | ↑ 37 | Steven Goldstein |
| 18 | ↑ 38 | Megyn Kelly |
| 19 | ↓ 18 | Elsie Escobar |
| 20 | ↓ 19 | Rob Greenlee |
| 21 | ↓ 5 | Mark Asquith |
| 22 | ↑ 42 | Justin Jackson |
| 23 | → 23 | John Wordock |
| 24 | ↑ 25 | Josh Widdicombe |
| 25 | ↑ 66 | Hrishikesh Hirway |
| 26 | ↑ 76 | Romesh Ranganathan |
| 27 | ↓ 14 | Dan Bongino |
| 28 | ↑ 34 | Adam Bowie |
| 29 | ↑ 39 | Paul Colligan |
| 30 | ↑ 40 | Matt Deegan |
Source: We match names mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between January 1 and March 31, and compare these figures with mentions between December 1 and February 28. 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.