The Podnews Ranker Top 30: April 2026
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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 47 mentions (24%) to women, and 147 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.
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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 | → 1 | Joe Rogan |
| 2 | ↑ 9 | John Spurlock |
| 3 | ↓ 2 | Rob Walch |
| 4 | ↑ 6 | Arielle Nissenblatt |
| 5 | ↓ 3 | Dave Jackson |
| 6 | ↑ 17 | Steven Goldstein |
| 7 | ↓ 4 | Bill Simmons |
| 8 | ↑ 22 | Justin Jackson |
| 9 | ↓ 7 | Tom Webster |
| 10 | ↑ 40 | Brendan Monaghan |
| 11 | ↑ 12 | Siobhán McHugh |
| 12 | ↓ 8 | Kara Swisher |
| 13 | → 13 | Stephen Robles |
| 14 | ↑ 110 | Jared Easley |
| 15 | ↑ 116 | Gordon Firemark |
| 16 | ↑ 20 | Rob Greenlee |
| 17 | ↑ 41 | Jimmy Fallon |
| 18 | ↓ 11 | John McDermott |
| 19 | ↑ 53 | Taylor Swift |
| 20 | ↑ 77 | Alberto Betella |
| 21 | ↑ 26 | Romesh Ranganathan |
| 22 | -- | Danny Brown |
| 23 | ↓ 5 | Jay Shetty |
| 24 | ↑ 94 | Dan Granger |
| 25 | ↑ 27 | Dan Bongino |
| 26 | ↑ 28 | Adam Bowie |
| 27 | ↓ 14 | Eric Nuzum |
| 28 | ↓ 16 | Steven Bartlett |
| 29 | -- | Jad Abumrad |
| 30 | ↑ 122 | Jeremy Enns |
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.