Top Podcasts in Comedy, News, Society & Culture, Sports, and True Crime, by reach

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Today is the last day of podcast genre week! Each day this week we have announced the top three podcasts in several genres in the U.S. based on reach using data from Edison Podcast Metrics.

You can find top podcasts in 18 genres posted on our site here.

Below are the top three podcasts in the Comedy, News, Society & Culture, Sports, and True Crime genres from Q3-Q4 2022 based on weekly audience reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+. These are some of the most popular genres among podcast listeners, so you may have already seen these shows in our Top 50 Podcast Show ranker.

The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the Comedy genre:

#1 Morbid 
#2 Office Ladies 
#3 Smartless

The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the News genre: 
 
#1 The Daily 
#2 The Ben Shapiro Show 
#3 Pod Save America 

The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the Sports genre: 
 
#1 The Bill Simmons Podcast 
#2 Pardon My Take 
#3 The Pat McAfee Show 2.0


The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the True Crime genre: 
 
#1 Crime Junkie 
#2 My Favorite Murder 
#3 Dateline NBC

Genre is defined as the podcast’s ‘Primary Category’ in Apple Podcasts and is selected by the show’s producer. Shows that are not available on Apple Podcasts are not included. A full ranking of shows by genre is available via subscription to Edison Podcast Metrics. Contact epm@edisonresearch.com for more information.  

Genre Week — The Top U.S. Podcasts by Reach

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The week of March 13, 2023 we announced the podcasts with the most weekly reach in the U.S. in specific genres using data from Edison Podcast Metrics.

Below is the full list in alphabetical order by genre. The top three podcasts in each genre are ranked based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the U.S. using data from Edison Podcast Metrics, Q3-Q4 2022. Genre is defined as the podcast’s ‘Primary Category’ in Apple Podcasts and is selected by the show’s producer. Shows that are not available on Apple Podcasts are not included. A full ranking of shows by genre is available via subscription to Edison Podcast Metrics. Contact epm@edisonresearch.com for more information.  

Arts
#1 Fresh Air
#2 The Moth
#3 99% Invisible 

Business 
#1 The Ramsey Show
#2 Planet Money
#3 Jocko Podcast


Comedy
#1 Morbid 
#2 Office Ladies 
#3 Smartless

Education
#1 TED Talks Daily
#2 The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
#3 Tate Speech 

Fiction
#1 Welcome to Night Vale
#2 Steeple Chase
#3 The No Sleep Podcast

Health & Fitness
#1  Huberman Lab
#2  The Self Love Fix 
#3  On Purpose with Jay Shetty

History
#1  Dark History
#2  Lore
#3  You’re Wrong About 

Kids & Family
#1 Frog of the Week
#2 Focus on the Family Broadcast
#3 Good Inside with Dr. Becky

Leisure
#1 Trash Taste
#2 The Critical Role
#3 Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast


Music
#1 Drink Champs
#2 Million Dollaz Worth of Game
#3 No Jumper

 

News
#1 The Daily 
#2 The Ben Shapiro Show 
#3 Pod Save America


Religion & Spirituality
#1  Joel Osteen Podcast
#2  The Bible in a Year
#3  Elevation


Science
#1  Hidden Brain
#2  StarTalk
#3  The Best of Coast to Coast AM

Society & Culture 
#1 This American Life 
#2 Stuff You Should Know
#3 Radiolab

Sports
#1 The Bill Simmons Podcast 
#2 Pardon My Take 
#3 The Pat McAfee Show 2.0

Technology
#1 Lex Fridman Podcast
#2 Reply All
#3 TED Radio Hour

 True Crime
#1 Crime Junkie 
#2 My Favorite Murder 
#3 Dateline

TV & Film
#1 Drama Queens
#2 The Rewatchables
#3 The Problem With Jon Stewart

 

 

 

Top Podcasts in Arts, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, and Leisure, by reach

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We know from The Infinite Dial that around 120 million Americans age 12+ are monthly podcast listeners, and the industry has provided a wide variety of genres from which listeners can choose. Each day this week we are announcing the top three podcasts in several genres in the U.S. based on reach using data from Edison Podcast Metrics.  You can find top podcasts in other genres posted on our site here.

Below are the top three podcasts in the Arts, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, and Leisure genres from Q3-Q4 2022 based on weekly audience reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+.

The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the Arts genre:

#1 Fresh Air
#2 The Moth
#3 99% Invisible

The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the Health & Fitness genre:

#1  Huberman Lab
#2  The Self Love Fix
#3  On Purpose with Jay Shetty

The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the Kids & Family genre:

#1 Frog of the Week
#2 Focus on the Family Broadcast
#3 Good Inside with Dr. Becky

The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the Leisure genre:

#1 Trash Taste
#2 The Critical Role
#3 Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast

Stay tuned to Edison Research social media and this site for our end-of-week genre announcements tomorrow. These genres are the most popular and you have already seen them represented by many of the shows in our Top 50 Podcast show ranker: Comedy, News, Society & Culture, Sports, and True Crime

Genre is defined as the podcast’s ‘Primary Category’ in Apple Podcasts and is selected by the show’s producer. Shows that are not available on Apple Podcasts are not included. A full ranking of shows by genre is available via subscription to Edison Podcast Metrics. Contact epm@edisonresearch.com for more information.

Top Podcasts in Business, Religion & Spirituality, and Tech, by reach

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Today we continue our genre-level look at podcast reach in the U.S. using data from Edison Podcast Metrics. We are announcing the top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach in many popular genres every day this week, and you can find the top podcasts in various entertainment and education genres already posted on our site.

Below are the top three podcasts in the Business, Religion & Spirituality, and Tech genres from Q3-Q4 2022 based on weekly audience reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+.

The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the Business genre:

#1 The Ramsey Show 
#2 Planet Money 
#3 Jocko Podcast

The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the Religion & Spirituality genre: 

#1  Joel Osteen Podcast 
#2  The Bible in a Year  
#3  Elevation

The top three podcasts in the U.S. based on reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+ in the Tech genre: 
 
#1 Lex Fridman Podcast 
#2 Reply All 
#3 TED Radio Hour

Stay tuned to Edison Research social media and this site for more genre announcements this week. On deck for tomorrow: Arts, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, Leisure 
 
Genre is defined as the podcast’s ‘Primary Category’ in Apple Podcasts and is selected by the show’s producer. Shows that are not available on Apple Podcasts are not included. A full ranking of shows by genre is available via subscription to Edison Podcast Metrics. Contact epm@edisonresearch.com for more information.   

Weekly Insights 3.15.2023 Time Spent With Radio vs. Streaming Audio

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This post is from Edison’s Weekly Insights email.  Please click here if you would like to subscribe.

You might have read the headline and thought, nope — no way do listeners spend more time with radio than streaming. In part two of our four-part series on the strength of AM/FM radio in the U.S., we break it down and shine a spotlight on the strengths of radio that might not be so obvious at first glance. 

This week’s finding: Listeners age 18+ spend more than twice the amount of their daily audio time with AM/FM radio compared to streaming audio. (See graphic below) 

Using Edison Research’s Share of Ear® dataset, we compare the share of daily audio time spent with AM/FM Radio listening (including over-the-air and streams) with non-AM/FM streaming audio (including Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, Apple music, etc.). With adults in the U.S. clocking 71% of their time listening to AM/FM Radio, that’s more than double the time spent with Streaming Audio (29%).

If we go one step further and add a filter to see what share of this audio time is ad-supported vs ad-free, we see an even bigger lead for AM/FM radio vs streaming audio.  

The graph below shows only AM/FM Radio (which includes streams) versus ad-supported streaming (not all streaming). Note that listening to SiriusXM, YouTube, podcasts, music channels on TV, owned music such as CDs, and audiobooks are not included in these comparisons.  

More than five times the amount of daily audio consumption among U.S. adults is spent with AM/FM radio, including radio station streams, (85%) than with ad-supported streaming audio (15%). 

Much of the time spent listening to streaming sources isn’t ad-supported; but these points illustrate a strength of traditional AM/FM radio and its streams when compared in an ad-supported universe (including Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, Apple music, etc.).

ICYMI, The Podcast Consumer 2023 was presented last week at the Podcast Movement Evolutions conference. The report contains new findings on U.S. podcast listeners and is a deep cut of survey data from The Infinite Dial 2023, which is presented with support from Amazon Music, Wondery, and ART19. The study also features data from Edison Podcast Metrics, Edison Research’s podcast measurement service. 

Click here to download The Podcast Consumer 2023: An Infinite Dial Report 

 

Top Podcasts by Genre  
Being Announced this Week 

Using data from Edison Podcast Metrics, we are announcing the top three podcasts in the U.S. in each of many popular genres. Watch our website and our social media outlets all this week for more genres. Ranks are based on Q3-Q4 2022 measurement of weekly audience reach among weekly podcast listeners age 13+.   

First up is the Fiction Genre:

Click here to see the Top Three Podcasts by Reach in various Genres