Edison Research has unveiled its top 50 podcast rankings from 2025’s 4th quarter, and it’s positive news for Joe Rogan.
The Joe Rogan Experience remained the top program in the metrics utilized by Edison Research. The company conducts interviews with 5,086 weekly podcast consumers ages 13 and older in the U.S.
Joining Joe Rogan in the top five were four other shows that saw their rankings from the previous quarter unchanged. Crime Junkie, The Daily, Call Her Daddy, and SmartLess rounded out the top five in order.
The first mover of the quarter was Stuff You Should Know, up four places to 6th, while other shows like Dateline NBC (-1 to 9th) and New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce (-3 to 10th) rounded out the top 10.
- The Joe Rogan Experience
- Crime Junkie
- The Daily
- Call Her Daddy
- SmartLess
- Stuff You Should Know (+4)
- This American Life (+5)
- This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von (-2)
- Dateline NBC (-1)
- New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce (-3)
In the news podcast format, The Megyn Kelly Show finished the quarter 13th. It was joined in the top 50 by The MeidasTouch Podcast (18th), The Tucker Carlson Show (20th), Pod Save America (24th), Candace Owens (35th), Up First from NPR (37th), The Shawn Ryan Show (39th), and The Ben Shapiro Show (48th).
The Charlie Kirk Show, which rose to as high as 17th during the 3rd quarter, fell 30 positions to 47th following Kirk’s September assassination.
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