top US publishers & Networks

Podcast Industry Ranking Highlights
Top US Podcast Publishers and Networks
US Audience: SEPTEMBER 2025
Rank Podcast Publisher US Unique Monthly Audience US Downloads & Streams Active Shows Sales Contact
1 iHeart Audience Network* 67,945,000 354,671,000 20,861 iHeartRadio
2 iHeartPodcasts 32,023,000 170,499,000 859 iHeartRadio
3 NPR Sales Network* 21,279,000 116,163,000 68 National Public Media
4 Acast*+ 19,525,000 73,547,000 52,878 Acast
5 Libsyn* 19,116,000 85,044,000 849 Libsyn Ads
6 The Walt Disney Company 7,436,000 25,834,000 145
7 Vox Media 6,789,000 22,194,000 68 Vox Media
8 Fox Audio Network 6,710,000 38,994,000 167 Fox Ad Solutions
9 PodcastOne 5,940,000 18,968,000 185 PodcastOne Sales
10 Paramount¹ 5,547,000 19,059,000 134
11 DailyWire+ 5,227,000 28,225,000 9 The Daily Wire
12 Barstool Sports 5,064,000 13,493,000 109 Barstool Sports Sales
13 PRX 2,828,000 8,037,000 195 Soundrise
14 Blaze Media 2,631,000 11,798,000 16 Blaze Media
15 WNYC Studios 2,598,000 8,953,000 36 New York Public Radio
16 This American Life 2,126,000 4,257,000 1 National Public Media
17 CNN 1,923,000 7,592,000 70 Warner Media Ad Sales
18 ReVolver Podcasts 1,549,000 3,587,000 149 SXM Media
19 Lemonada Media 1,402,000 3,470,000 89 Lemonada Media

Total mobile and desktop US podcast audience.

Unique Monthly Audience:
Total of unique audience members who stream or download publisher's podcast content across all shows they produce.
Unique Streams & Downloads:
Total unique streams and downloads of podcast content for the month across all shows produced by publisher.
Active Shows:
Count of shows produced by publisher and measured by Podtrac which contribute to the totals in the Ranking.
Podcast Publisher:
An entity or individual which owns, creates and publishes podcasts. A Podcast Publisher may or may not sell advertising in their podcasts.
*Sales Network:
An entity which sells advertising in an aggregated network of podcasts which they may or may not own, create and publish. A Sales Network may include Podcast Publishers.
+Data for June 2025 (Acast's data is released after each quarterly financial report is published).

Ranking data only includes publishers that participate in Podtrac measurement for the full month for which the ranking is being released.