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The Podnews Ranker Top 30: April 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 February 1 and April 30, and how they’re trending.

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Gender balance

Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 58 mentions (27%) to women, and 154 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.

People

1↑ 3Donald Trump
2↑ 5John Wordock
3↑ 9Sam Sethi
4↑ 8Steve Stewart
5↓ 2Ashley Carman
6↑ 20Tom Webster
7↑ 27Dan Granger
8↑ 12Jay Nachlis
9↓ 4Dave Jones
10↑ 129Steven Goldstein
11↓ 1Joe Rogan
12↑ 21Tig Notaro
13↓ 6Amanda McLoughlin
14↑ 88Ira Glass
15↑ 30John Spurlock
16↑ 17Michelle Obama
17↑ 18Rachel Corbett
18↑ 19Adam Curry
19↑ 51Kattie Laur
20↓ 10John McDermott
21↓ 11Steve Goldstein
22↑ 23Chris Peterson
23↓ 7Alex Cooper
24↑ 26Casey Wilson
25--Maya Prohovnik
26↑ 86Steve Pratt
27↑ 89Wil Williams
28↑ 90Sam Sanders
29↑ 119Dan Bongino
30↑ 122Jared Easley

Source: We match names mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between February 1 and April 30, and compare these figures with mentions between January 1 and March 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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