December 2019- Top Podcast Publishers

The Top 10 Podcast Publishers ranking for December 2019 is now available at Podtrac.com.

Highlights of the ranking include:

  • The Top 10 Podcast Publisher ranking has expanded to the Top 15. Look for further expansion in the coming months.

  • We’ve also added a Sales Contact column to facilitate potential advertisers in connecting with top shows. Visit the ranking at Podtrac.com to click-through to full contact information on participating publishers.

  • For December 2019, the Top 10 publishers average Unique Monthly Audience is up 5% over November 2019 and up 44% over December 2018.

Note: As of April 2019, Global Downloads and Streams reflect updates to Podtrac’s measurement algorithm and are not directly comparable to months prior to April 2019. Unique Monthly Audience numbers were not impacted by this update.




















Top 20 Podcasts: November 2019 - REVISED

We’ve updated the Podtrac November 2019 Top 20 Podcasts ranking, removing two shows from American Media LLC.  We learned today, from some heroic testing from James Cridland of Podnews, that an older version of a website player used by American Media downloads their podcasts without the user pressing play in the specific case of Android mobile users.  Preloading content is not consistent with IAB V2 standards. We have removed these downloads from our data.     

We looked at the incidence of this player version across all Podtrac measured podcasts, and other than this publisher, 0.1% of podcast downloads came from this same version of the player, and none of these came from the top 2,000 podcasts measured by Podtrac.  Podtrac has added this version of the player to our blacklist and has notified the IAB Podcast Technical Working Group to do the same. Going forward downloads from this player will not be included in Podtrac counts.    

Below is the revised Ranking.



November 2019- Top Podcast Publishers

The Top 10 Podcast Publishers ranking for November 2019 is now available at Podtrac.com.

Highlights of the ranking include:

  • All Top 10 Publishers saw decreases in US Unique Monthly Audience in November compared to October, consistent with a seasonal dip we saw last November.

  • Average US Unique Monthly Audience across the Top 10 publishers is up 12% in November over October and up 29% from November of 2018.

Note: As of April 2019, Global Downloads and Streams reflect updates to Podtrac’s measurement algorithm and are not directly comparable to months prior to April 2019. Unique Monthly Audience numbers were not impacted by this update.



















October 2019- Top Podcast Publishers

The Top 10 Podcast Publishers ranking for October 2019 is now available at Podtrac.com.

Highlights of the ranking include:

  • NBC News joins the ranking this month at #9.

  • All Top 10 Publishers saw increases in US Unique Monthly Audience in October compared to September, led by New York Times (18%) for the second month in a row.

  • Average US Unique Monthly Audience across the Top 10 publishers is up 10% in October over September and up 41% from October of 2018.

Note: As of April 2019, Global Downloads and Streams reflect updates to Podtrac’s measurement algorithm and are not directly comparable to months prior to April 2019. Unique Monthly Audience numbers were not impacted by this update.


















September 2019- Top Podcast Publishers

The Top 10 Podcast Publishers ranking for September 2019 is now available at Podtrac.com.

Highlights of the ranking include:

  • For September, 6 of the Top 10 Publishers saw increases in US Unique Monthly Audience (led by New York Times at 8%) while 3 saw decreases and Kast Media joined the ranking for the first time at #10.

  • Average US Unique Monthly Audience across the Top 10 publishers is up 1% in September over August and up 64% from September of 2018.

Note: As of April 2019, Global Downloads and Streams reflect updates to Podtrac’s measurement algorithm and are not directly comparable to months prior to April 2019. Unique Monthly Audience numbers were not impacted by this update.