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