The Podnews Ranker Top 30: October 2022
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Who’s in the podcast news? Here’s a list of the people and companies 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 211 mentions (39%) to women, and 335 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 40%.
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.
Companies
| 1 | → 1 | Spotify |
| 2 | ↑ 5 | Lemonada Media |
| 3 | → 3 | iHeart |
| 4 | ↑ 10 | YouTube |
| 5 | ↓ 2 | Acast |
| 6 | ↓ 4 | Sounds Profitable |
| 7 | → 7 | Apple Podcasts |
| 8 | → 8 | NPR |
| 9 | ↓ 6 | Podcast Movement |
| 10 | ↑ 22 | TikTok |
| 11 | ↑ 12 | Libsyn |
| 12 | ↓ 9 | Global |
| 13 | ↑ 27 | Podsights |
| 14 | ↑ 23 | SiriusXM |
| 15 | ↓ 14 | Buzzsprout |
| 16 | ↓ 13 | Edison Research |
| 17 | ↑ 26 | Pacific Content |
| 18 | ↑ 30 | LiSTNR |
| 19 | ↓ 18 | Transistor |
| 20 | ↑ 38 | Gimlet |
| 21 | ↑ 40 | New York Times |
| 22 | ↓ 16 | Podtrac |
| 23 | ↓ 11 | Blubrry |
| 24 | ↓ 15 | Wondery |
| 25 | ↑ 31 | Audacy |
| 26 | ↑ 35 | Megaphone |
| 27 | ↓ 19 | Triton Digital |
| 28 | ↓ 25 | Anchor |
| 29 | ↑ 44 | Stitcher |
| 30 | ↓ 20 | Gumball |
People
| 1 | → 1 | Tom Webster |
| 2 | ↑ 9 | Andy Slavitt |
| 3 | ↑ 8 | V Spehar |
| 4 | ↑ 6 | Kalen Allen |
| 5 | ↑ 7 | Ricki Lake |
| 6 | ↓ 5 | Ashley Carman |
| 7 | ↓ 3 | Joe Rogan |
| 8 | -- | Elyse Myers |
| 9 | ↓ 4 | John Spurlock |
| 10 | ↑ 14 | Adnan Syed |
| 11 | ↑ 15 | Lauren Passell |
| 12 | ↓ 2 | Dave Jones |
| 13 | ↑ 19 | Adam Curry |
| 14 | ↓ 13 | Chris Dawson |
| 15 | ↑ 20 | Steve Pratt |
| 16 | → 16 | Skye Pillsbury |
| 17 | ↑ 61 | Adam Bowie |
| 18 | ↑ 26 | Meghan Markle |
| 19 | ↓ 11 | Matt Deegan |
| 20 | ↑ 28 | Nick Hilton |
| 21 | ↓ 12 | Evo Terra |
| 22 | ↑ 33 | Alex Jones |
| 23 | ↑ 359 | Kulap Vilaysack |
| 24 | ↑ 50 | Fi Glover |
| 25 | ↑ 51 | Jane Garvey |
| 26 | ↑ 54 | Danny Brown |
| 27 | ↑ 55 | Annalise Nielsen |
| 28 | ↓ 21 | Michael Mignano |
| 29 | ↓ 22 | Dino Sofos |
| 30 | ↑ 404 | SuChin Pak |
Source: We match names and companies 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.