The Podnews Ranker Top 30: October 2024
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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 August 1 and October 31, and how they’re trending.
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Gender balance
Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 235 mentions (39%) to women, and 362 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 36%.
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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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 | ↑ 4 | Joe Rogan |
| 2 | ↓ 1 | Justin Jackson |
| 3 | → 3 | Tom Webster |
| 4 | ↑ 9 | Alex Cooper |
| 5 | ↑ 10 | Taylor Swift |
| 6 | ↑ 32 | Steve Pratt |
| 7 | ↑ 13 | Alex Goldman |
| 8 | → 8 | Adam Curry |
| 9 | ↑ 23 | Travis Kelce |
| 10 | -- | Maya Prohovnik |
| 11 | ↓ 6 | John W Gibbons |
| 12 | ↑ 364 | Steven Bartlett |
| 13 | ↑ 35 | Elon Musk |
| 14 | ↓ 2 | Dave Jackson |
| 15 | ↑ 16 | Sam Sethi |
| 16 | ↓ 7 | Ashley Carman |
| 17 | ↑ 42 | Donald Trump |
| 18 | ↑ 45 | David Hoffman |
| 19 | -- | Sandy Wilheim |
| 20 | -- | Kamala Harris |
| 21 | ↑ 46 | Ezra Klein |
| 22 | ↓ 19 | Mathew Passy |
| 23 | ↑ 159 | Emily Kwong |
| 24 | ↓ 21 | Eric Silver |
| 25 | ↓ 22 | Amanda McLoughlin |
| 26 | ↓ 25 | Maisie Williams |
| 27 | ↑ 221 | Jim Cornette |
| 28 | ↓ 27 | Dave Campbell |
| 29 | ↓ 28 | Cindy Howes |
| 30 | ↑ 314 | Max Cutler |
Source: We match names mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between August 1 and October 31, and compare these figures with mentions between July 1 and September 30. 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.