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The Podnews Ranker Top 30: July 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 May 1 and July 31, and how they’re trending.

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Gender balance

Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 55 mentions (23%) to women, and 181 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 22%.

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↑ 2Joe Rogan
2↓ 1John Wordock
3↑ 19Adam Curry
4↑ 27Alex Cooper
5↑ 10Lauren Passell
6→ 6John Spurlock
7↑ 14Steven Bartlett
8→ 8Tom Webster
9↓ 4Ira Glass
10↓ 9Danny Brown
11→ 11Adam Bowie
12↑ 41Scott Galloway
13↓ 7Ashley Carman
14↑ 18Rachel Corbett
15↑ 20Justin Jackson
16↑ 45Chris Stone
17--Norma Jean Belenky
18↑ 22Greg James
19↑ 50Shawn Ryan
20↑ 23Colin Thomson
21↑ 25John McDermott
22↑ 55Steve Goldstein
23↑ 28Neal Veglio
24--LaFontaine Oliver
25--James Burtt
26↑ 29Jonas Woost
27↑ 31Max Cutler
28↑ 32Matthew McLean
29↑ 33Bill Maher
30↑ 35Dallas Taylor

Source: We match names mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between May 1 and July 31, and compare these figures with mentions between April 1 and June 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.


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