Podtrac has released its monthly podcast rankings, which see The Ben Shapiro Show and The Dan Bongino Show remain in the top 10.
In the podcasts with the largest unique monthly audience in April, Ben Shapiro finished ninth, dropping two places from the previous month. Meanwhile, Dan Bongino remained in 10th place in the company’s rankings. Those two news/talk radio hosts top the charts for members of the genre in the digital space.
The top 10 was filled with news podcasts. The Daily from The New York Times regained the top spot from NPR News Now, which dropped one spot to second. NPR’s Up First and Dateline NBC took the third and fourth spots, while Fox News Hourly Update moved up four places to finish eighth, in addition to the shows from Shapiro and Bongino.
In the podcast publisher rankings with largest monthly unique audience from Podtrac, iHeart Audience Network saw more than 71 million listeners with a whopping 24,589 shows in its network. Meanwhile, NPR was fifth with more than 20 million listeners with its 65 shows. The New York Times was seventh with an audience of 11.1 million from 12 active podcasts. The Daily Wire was ninth with 6.8 active listeners with only eight active programs.
Others in the top 20 include Fox Audio Network (13th), CNN (16th), and Blaze Media (17th).
