Goalhanger
Address: 
16 Old Town, London SW4 0JY, UK
The UK's largest independent podcast company
Website: www.goalhangerpodcasts.com
Latest news
- Dec 6: The new Goalhanger podcast The Rest Is Classified has achieved 200,000 downloads in its first week, the company says. It topped the charts in the UK and Australia, while also breaking into the top 5 in New Zealand and Ireland. The show offers unparalleled insights into the world of intelligence and security.
- Nov 27: Edison Research published the top 25 UK Podcasts for Q3/24. Goalhanger celebrate improvements in placing for all of its four top-25 shows, including The Rest is Politics, which makes it to #2 in the country, behind the US-made Joe Rogan Experience. There are only two shows from the US in the chart. Acast hosts nine shows, Megaphone hosts seven, and the BBC hosts five.
- Nov 25: BBC Sounds, the broadcaster’s proprietary radio, music and podcast app, has signed a licensing deal with Goalhanger to carry two of its podcasts. The shows will be ad-free, and time-delayed - The Rest is Football (“quality analysis and insight on all the latest stories from the world of football”) will be delayed by two days, while The Rest is History (“a vast range of historical topics”) will be delayed by eight weeks. The shows will continue to be available elsewhere.
- Nov 19: The UK’s Goalhanger has announced its latest launch - The Rest is Classified will launch at the end of this month, hosted by a former CIA analyst and a national security journalist. The show will uncover the murky and often misunderstood world of international espionage. It’s to launch on podcast apps and YouTube.
- Oct 29: Top shows include The Rest Is Politics in the UK; All Ears English in Saudi Arabia; O Assunto in Brazil, and Conversations in Australia. The UK chart has three shows from the BBC in the top ten, and four from Goalhanger - Joe Rogan is the top US show at #10.
Data credits: Google Maps, Podnews newsletter