Podtrac’s Top 200 Multi-Channel Podcasts for January 2026 is now available at Podtrac.com.
Here’s the Top 20:
Highlights for the Top 200:
Audio: 200 podcasts (100%) post audio episodes to RSS.
Audio vs Video Delivery Percent: 138 podcasts (69%) get the majority of their episode delivery in audio, and 62 podcasts (31%) get the majority of their episode delivery in video.
Audio vs Video By Rank: For the Top 50 ranked podcasts, total delivery is 52% video and 48% audio. For podcasts ranked 51 to 200, total delivery is 74% audio and 26% video.
YouTube and Spotify Video: 132 podcasts (66%) post video episodes to YouTube, 45 podcasts (23%) post video episodes to Spotify.
By Genre: Top genres are: News (54), Comedy (34), True Crime (20), Society & Culture (18), Business (17), & Sports (12).
Podcast Clips: 131 podcasts (66%) post podcast-related video clips to Instagram, 108 podcasts (54%) post clips to TikTok, and 107 podcasts (54%) post clips to YouTube.
Podcast Clip Delivery: 71 podcasts (36%) get more podcast video clip delivery than podcast episode delivery.
YouTube Episodes vs Clips: 52% of podcast delivery on YouTube is for views of full episodes, and 48% is for views of podcast-related clips. (Neither stat is a measure of play duration.) Podcast clip totals are not used to determine podcast rank.
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