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The Podnews Ranker Top 30: June 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 April 1 and June 30, and how they’re trending.

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Gender balance

Overall, in this 90-day period, Podnews gave 52 mentions (22%) to women, and 181 mentions to men. In the previous period, the gender split was 25%.

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↑ 4John Wordock
2↑ 9Joe Rogan
3↓ 1Sam Sethi
4↑ 27Ira Glass
5→ 5Dan Granger
6↑ 13John Spurlock
7↑ 8Ashley Carman
8↓ 2Tom Webster
9↑ 31Danny Brown
10↑ 32Lauren Passell
11↑ 35Adam Bowie
12↑ 14Jared Easley
13↑ 37Mike McVay
14↓ 6Steven Bartlett
15↑ 122Alban Brooke
16↓ 7Steven Goldstein
17↑ 44Daniel Ek
18↓ 10Rachel Corbett
19↑ 137Adam Curry
20↑ 138Justin Jackson
21↓ 3Donald Trump
22↓ 17Greg James
23↑ 50Colin Thomson
24↑ 51Mathew Passy
25↑ 52John McDermott
26↓ 21Chris Peterson
27↑ 57Alex Cooper
28↑ 66Neal Veglio
29↓ 24Jonas Woost
30↓ 25Maya Prohovnik

Source: We match names 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.


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