The Top 50 Podcasts in the U.S. for Q3 2025 from Edison Podcast Metrics

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   
  
Glen Mills, PA October 17, 2025 – Edison Research announces the Top 50 Podcasts in the U.S. based on reach for Q3 2025 among weekly podcast consumers ages 13+. The list ranks podcasts based on total audience reach from Edison Podcast Metrics.  
  
The top four podcasts remain in the same rank order as Q2 2025: The Joe Rogan Experience, Crime Junkie, The Daily, and Call Her Daddy. SmartLess moves up one spot from Q2 to round out the top five. The rankings below show rank changes noted in parentheses. 
  
1.   The Joe Rogan Experience   
2.   Crime Junkie   
3.   The Daily  
4.   Call Her Daddy    
5.   SmartLess (+1)  
6.  This Past Weekend w/Theo Von (-1)   
7.  New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce (+3)   
8.   Dateline NBC (-1)   
9.   Morbid (+9)  
10. Stuff You Should Know (-2)   

In the Top 20 for the first time: The Meidas Touch Podcast (#14) enters the Top 20 for the first time. Meidas Touch did overtake The Joe Rogan Experience in the YouTube podcast rankings at one point this quarter — note that the YouTube chart is ranked by watch time, not by reach. The Charlie Kirk Show (#17) sees a 32-rank increase from #49 in Q2. Since Kirk’s passing on September 10, the show has continued to release new episodes. 
 
In the Top 50 for the first time: On Purpose with Jay Shetty enters the Top 50 for the first time at #42, perhaps buoyed by his 9/11 appearance on The Today Show.  
 
Other notable moves: New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce gets a bump from the Taylor Swift guest appearance.  Candace (#28) rises at least partially because of her return from a maternity break in late June. The Pat McAfee Show hits an all-time high ranking of #26, up from #39 in Q2, while another sports-focused pod, The Bill Simmons Podcast, increases rank position to #36 from #67, timed with the start of football season. Bubbling under the Top 50 are Diary of a CEO (#51) and Giggly Squad (#52). 

Interviews were conducted continuously throughout the quarter in English and Spanish. Rankings are based on average weekly consumption over the full period. All respondents reported listening to a podcast or watching a podcast in the last week.  

About Edison Podcast Metrics:

The podcast show ranker is derived from data collected continuously during the third quarter of 2025, interviewing 5,000 weekly podcast consumers ages 13 and older in the U.S. in English or Spanish. Participants indicate which podcasts they listened to or watched 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 audience.   

About Edison Research: 

Edison Research conducts survey research and provides strategic information to a broad array of clients worldwide, having conducted research in 66 countries. Edison Research’s The Infinite Dial® series has been the survey of record for digital audio, social media, podcasting, smart speakers, and other media-related technologies since 1998. The company’s Share of Ear® survey is the only single-source measure of all audio in the U.S. Edison Research is the leading podcast research company in the world, producing the only survey-based data on podcast listening in the U.S, Edison Podcast Metrics, and has conducted research for many companies in the space.  On October 15, 2025, Edison Research announced the company’s acquisition by the full-service market research firm SSRS. 

For more information:     
Melissa Kiesche  
Senior Vice President, Edison Audio Group Director     
mkiesche@ssrs.com