The Top 50 Podcasts in the US for Q3 2024
Edison Research announces the Top 50 Podcasts in the U.S. based on reach for Q3 2024 among weekly podcast listeners age 13+.
The list ranks podcasts based on total audience reach from Edison Podcast Metrics. Interviews were conducted continuously throughout the quarter in English and Spanish. Rankings are based on listening over the full period. All respondents reported listening to podcasts in the last week.
Remaining in the same order in the Top 3 since the second quarter are The Joe Rogan Experience, Crime Junkie, and The Daily.
SmartLess, now part of the SiriusXM Podcast Network, breaks into the Top Five for the first time. MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories makes its debut in the Top 10 at #9.
In the Top 50 for the first time: Several new podcasts enter the Top 50 this quarter. The MeidasTouch Podcast rises to #28, driven by its daily election campaign coverage. The LOL Podcast enters the list at #32, reflecting steady audience growth since its debut in June 2023.
How I Built This with Guy Raz makes its debut at #35, following its spotlight in the “Wondery Means Business” campaign and a recent feature in Forbes. Additionally, KILL TONY earns the #41 spot, propelled by two sold-out live tapings at Madison Square Garden, with one including a guest appearance by Joe Rogan. Recently, KILL TONY host, Tony Hincliffe, gained even more notoriety after his controversial speech at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.
The podcast show ranker is derived from data collected continuously during the second quarter of 2024, interviewing 5,000 weekly podcast consumers age 13 and older in the U.S. Participants indicate which podcasts they listened to in the past week along with a variety of demographic, psychographic, and purchase-behavior information. This ranker measures reach as a percentage of the weekly podcast listening audience.
The Top 50 Podcasts in the US, by reach
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From: Cancelled & Audioboom Studios
Hosted by: Audioboom
From: Logan Paul
From: Barstool Sports
From: Brittany Broski & Audioboom Studios
Hosted by: Audioboom
The above list of podcasts is available as an OPML file for your podcast player
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Companies mentioned above:
Edison Podcast Metrics
Edison Research
SiriusXM
Wondery