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The Podnews Ranker Top 30: September 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 July 1 and September 30, and how they’re trending.

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Gender balance

Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 57 mentions (27%) to women, and 151 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 26%.

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↑ 4Taylor Swift
2→ 2Adam Curry
3↓ 1Joe Rogan
4↑ 140Todd Cochrane
5↓ 3John Wordock
6↓ 5John Spurlock
7↑ 9Tom Webster
8→ 8Arielle Nissenblatt
9↓ 6Chris Stone
10--Jay Shetty
11--Eric Nuzum
12→ 12Steven Bartlett
13→ 13Steve Boom
14↓ 7Marc Maron
15↑ 121Dave Jackson
16↑ 122Steven Goldstein
17↓ 15Daniel Ek
18↑ 136Rob Greenlee
19↓ 18Norma Jean Belenky
20↓ 19Shawn Ryan
21↓ 10Alex Cooper
22→ 22LaFontaine Oliver
23↑ 68Amanda Knox
24--Mike Dell
25--Malcolm Gladwell
26↓ 23James Burtt
27↑ 75Alberto Betella
28↑ 84Wil Williams
29↓ 26Nathan Gathright
30→ 30Alex Sanfilippo

Source: We match names mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between July 1 and September 30, and compare these figures with mentions between June 1 and August 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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