The Podnews Ranker Top 30: June 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 April 1 and June 30, and how they’re trending.
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Gender balance
Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 226 mentions (41%) to women, and 321 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 35%.
Context: 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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Companies
| 1 | → 1 | Spotify |
| 2 | → 2 | Acast |
| 3 | → 3 | iHeart |
| 4 | → 4 | Apple Podcasts |
| 5 | ↑ 6 | Lemonada Media |
| 6 | ↓ 5 | YouTube |
| 7 | ↑ 11 | Sounds Profitable |
| 8 | ↓ 7 | Libsyn |
| 9 | ↑ 10 | Triton Digital |
| 10 | ↑ 13 | Anchor |
| 11 | ↓ 8 | NPR |
| 12 | ↑ 19 | Global |
| 13 | ↓ 12 | Edison Research |
| 14 | ↓ 9 | Podcast Movement |
| 15 | → 15 | Buzzsprout |
| 16 | ↑ 28 | Bloomberg |
| 17 | ↑ 18 | SXM Media |
| 18 | ↓ 17 | PRX |
| 19 | ↑ 20 | AdvertiseCast |
| 20 | ↑ 21 | Blubrry |
| 21 | ↓ 16 | IAB |
| 22 | ↑ 41 | Substack |
| 23 | ↑ 43 | Pacific Content |
| 24 | → 24 | Megaphone |
| 25 | → 25 | New York Times |
| 26 | ↑ 27 | Podtrac |
| 27 | ↓ 14 | SiriusXM |
| 28 | ↓ 26 | |
| 29 | ↑ 46 | RØDE |
| 30 | ↑ 33 | CBC |
People
| 1 | → 1 | Tom Webster |
| 2 | → 2 | Dave Jones |
| 3 | ↑ 7 | Joe Rogan |
| 4 | -- | Mike Grunwald |
| 5 | -- | Tamar Haspel |
| 6 | ↑ 21 | Courtney Kocak |
| 7 | -- | Shilla Kim |
| 8 | -- | Rachel Kibbe |
| 9 | -- | Christina Binkley |
| 10 | -- | Shayle Kann |
| 11 | ↓ 10 | Connor Franta |
| 12 | ↑ 19 | Lauren Passell |
| 13 | ↑ 399 | Arielle Nissenblatt |
| 14 | ↓ 12 | Ashley Carman |
| 15 | -- | Stephen Lacey |
| 16 | -- | Maya Prohovnik |
| 17 | ↓ 15 | Andy Slavitt |
| 18 | ↓ 16 | Mpumelelo Malumo |
| 19 | ↓ 17 | Robert Riggs |
| 20 | ↑ 45 | Michael Mignano |
| 21 | ↓ 11 | Daniel J Lewis |
| 22 | ↓ 5 | John Spurlock |
| 23 | ↓ 6 | Matt Deegan |
| 24 | ↓ 9 | Evo Terra |
| 25 | ↓ 13 | Rachel Corbett |
| 26 | ↓ 14 | Adam Curry |
| 27 | -- | Maria Gallucci |
| 28 | ↓ 24 | Stephanie Wittels Wachs |
| 29 | ↓ 25 | Alberto Betella |
| 30 | ↓ 26 | PJ Vogt |
Source: We match names and companies mentioned in Podnews’s main newsletter editorial (stories, tips, tech and podcast news) between April 1 and June 30, and compare these figures with mentions between March 1 and May 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.