July 2024 will go down in history as one of the most tumultuous months in United States history. The news happenings led to an uptick in listening for both Dan Bongino and Ben Shapiro according to Podtrac.
During the month of July, The Dan Bongino Show rose four places in the Podtrac rankings. The show finished fifth in the U.S. Unique Monthy Audience category, ending up behind news podcasts like The Daily, NPR News Now, Up First, and Dateline NBC.
The fifth-place finish by Bongino is his highest placement of 2024, eclipsing its previous top finish of ninth it featured in both May and June.
Right on Bongino’s heels was The Ben Shapiro Show, which also saw improvements. That show — distributed by The Daily Wire — was up two places to finish sixth in the rankings.
With the moves up the charts by shows hosted by Dan Bongino and Ben Shapiro, the Fox News Hourly Update dropped from sixth to eighth in the July rankings.
iHeart Audience Network remained the top publisher for the month with its whopping 29,469 producing a unique audience of 65.88 million. iHeartPodcasts was second with 29.65 million. Meanwhile Libsyn (21.5 million), Wondery (20.7 million), Acast (18.5 million), NPR (18.4 million), The Walt Disney Company (7.7 million), The Daily Wire (6.9 million), Vox Media (6.2 million), and Fox Audio Network (5.6 million) finished in the top 10 in the industry ranker.
