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New York Post
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
YouTube releases list of most popular podcasts— here's where Joe Rogan, Theo Von and Megyn Kelly rank
YouTube launched a new weekly chart of the most-watched podcasts on its platform as the Alphabet-owned company ramps up competition with Spotify and Apple in the rapidly evolving audio market. 'The Joe Rogan Experience' topped the debut of the Weekly Top Podcast Shows Chart, which ranks US podcasts based on total watch time, followed by 'Kill Tony' and 'Rotten Mango.' 6 YouTube launched a new weekly chart to highlight the most-watched podcasts on its platform. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Advertisement 'Kill Tony' is a live comedy podcast hosted by Tony Hinchcliffe. In October, Hinchcliffe faced significant backlash after making controversial remarks at a Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden during which he referred to Puerto Rico as a 'floating island of garbage.' Other notable podcasts on the chart include '48 Hours,' a true crime series by CBS News (No. 4), retired football great Shannon Sharpe's 'Club Shay Shay' (No. 7), 'This Past Weekend' starring former MTV 'Road Rules' personality Theo Von (No. 8), and conservative Sirius/XM host Megyn Kelly (No. 19). YouTube's new ranking feature is expected to offer podcasters increased visibility and help viewers find trending content, mirroring tools already offered by competing platforms. Advertisement 6 The Alphabet-owned video giant announced Thursday that it will debut a Weekly Top Podcast Shows Chart, ranking US podcasts every Wednesday based on total watch time. YouTube According to Edison Research, YouTube has already surpassed Spotify and Apple Podcasts as the top platform where Americans consume podcasts. The company says podcasts generate more than one billion monthly active views on the platform. 6 Joe Rogan's 'Joe Rogan Experience' ranked as the No. 1 podcast on YouTube's chart. AP Advertisement 'YouTube just isn't a place where you drop your content from other sources,' Ben Meiselas, co-founder of the progressive political show 'The MeidasTouch Podcast,' told CNBC. 'We want to focus on making YouTube a channel the way people watch cable news.' 6 'Kill Tony' is a live comedy podcast hosted by Tony Hinchcliffe, who faced significant backlash after making controversial remarks at a Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden last year. Getty Images for SXSW Meiselas, whose podcast came in at No. 5 on the chart, emphasized the platform's economic advantage, noting that YouTube provides better cost-per-mile (CPM) rates — advertising lingo for cost per thousand impressions — than its competitors. Advertisement 6 Theo Von, the comedian and former star of the 'Road Rules' series on MTV, is host of the eighth most popular podcast on YouTube. TheoVon/YouTube The rise of video podcasts has been one of the defining themes of the 2025 media Upfronts, as platforms compete for advertisers seeking high-engagement formats. 6 Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly ranks 19th on the list. Getty Images for TIME Spotify has expanded its own video podcast offerings. The Swedish-based streamer reported over 100 million dollars in global payouts to podcasters in the first quarter of this year. Nonetheless, YouTube remains the dominant player in terms of creator revenue and audience scale.


Hans India
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hans India
YouTube Launches Weekly Podcast Chart, Joe Rogan Claims Top Spot
YouTube has officially launched its own weekly podcast chart, and Joe Rogan is leading the pack. The Joe Rogan Experience ranked number one on the new chart for the week of May 5th to 11th, followed by Kill Tony, Rotten Mango, and 48 Hours. The new chart highlights the top 100 podcasts in the United States based on total watch time, according to YouTube podcast lead Steve McLendon. It will be updated every Wednesday and will only include full podcast playlists that creators have marked as 'podcasts' during the upload process. Playlists made up of clips or Shorts won't be eligible. This move reinforces YouTube's growing role in podcast consumption. Earlier this year, the platform revealed that over 1 billion people use YouTube each month to access podcast content, significantly outpacing Spotify's 100 million listeners reported in 2023. McLendon added that YouTube plans to roll out more podcast-focused features and expand the chart to additional regions in the future, further solidifying its position in the podcasting world.


The Verge
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
YouTube now has a podcast chart, and Joe Rogan is on top
YouTube now has a chart that tracks the top 100 podcasts in the US. The Joe Rogan Experience took the number one spot during the week of May 5th to the 11th, followed by Kill Tony, Rotten Mango, and 48 Hours. YouTube will update the chart every Wednesday and rank each show by watchtime, according to a blog post from YouTube's Steve McLendon. The chart will include playlists 'designated as 'podcasts' by the creator in the upload process, and will not include playlists that contain only clips or Shorts.' Over the years, YouTube has established itself as one of the top platforms for listening to – or watching – podcasts. In February, YouTube announced that more than 1 billion people tune into podcasts on the platform each month, far more than the 100 million regular podcast listeners Spotify reported in 2023.


New York Times
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Which Podcasts Rule YouTube? A New List Comes With Surprises.
You may remember Tony Hinchcliffe as the stand-up comedian who, last fall, maligned the island of Puerto Rico in an inflammatory set during a rally in New York for the Trump presidential campaign. Despite the criticism for those comments, Mr. Hinchcliffe landed a Netflix deal in March for three specials based on his long-running live comedy podcast, 'Kill Tony.' That show is ranked modestly at No. 51 on Spotify and No. 178 on Apple Podcasts' top charts, which track the most popular podcasts in the United States based on a combination of various factors: streams, downloads, subscribers and other mystery metrics. Yet a new chart, released Thursday, offers new hints about Mr. Hinchcliffe's mass appeal. For the first time, YouTube has published its ranking of top podcasts in the United States, offering a fresh perspective on a sprawling landscape. There, 'Kill Tony' is ranked No. 2, just below the reigning king of podcasts, Joe Rogan. Another major difference from the Spotify and Apple charts: Many popular and well-established podcasts did not make YouTube's top 100 ranking, which is based on overall watch time. Among the missing: 'Call Her Daddy,' 'Crime Junkie,' 'SmartLess,' 'The Daily' and 'New Heights,' all frequently in the Top 10 of various quarterly or annual lists. There were familiar names on YouTube's list, including MeidasTouch, Shannon Sharpe and Theo Von in the Top 10. But when compared with the existing charts, YouTube's version sometimes seems like a fun house mirror. While the hit podcast 'Dateline NBC,' for example, was absent — it does not regularly upload episodes to YouTube — the CBS true crime newsmagazine '48 Hours' appeared at No. 4. Despite its roots in video, YouTube has come to dominate podcasting. It is the preferred service for one-third of weekly podcast listeners in the United States, capturing more users than Spotify or Apple Podcasts, according to Edison Research. But that happened only in recent years, in conjunction with the growing popularity of video podcasts. 'They saw something other people didn't in video,' said Brett Meiselas, a founder of MeidasTouch, comparing YouTube against the other platforms, which are now trying to attract more video creators and viewers. Mr. Meiselas, who said the chart was 'a long time coming,' was pleased but not entirely surprised by his show's No. 5 spot: 'It means our work is getting out there.' As podcasts broadly continue to rise in influence — helping to sell products, find voters and spread hot-button ideas — YouTube's chart represents another tool for understanding who holds sway with American consumers. It is a way to 'help audiences and podcasters alike understand who is shaping that conversation,' said Brandon Feldman, the director of news, civics and podcast partnerships at YouTube. The chart can also serve as 'inspiration,' or 'a guide' to success for other podcasters looking to increase their audience size, he added. The ranking will be updated every Wednesday. Mr. Hinchcliffe's success, for example, embodies the 'cultural zeitgeist,' Mr. Feldman said: 'The audience is showing us what they're looking for.' (Anti-woke comedy is Mr. Hinchcliffe's specialty.) The chart also comes at a time when podcast platforms are inching toward some more transparency in their metrics. Spotify recently announced a feature that reveals how many times a podcast episode has been played. But historically, podcast platforms and producers have closely guarded their streaming and download numbers. YouTube is an exception, having published view counts long before it became a podcast destination. (It now claims to reach one billion podcast users per month.) The big shows missing from YouTube's chart could still join in the coming weeks. But for some podcasts, this may require a deeper investment in video — or, at the very least, ensuring their videos are correctly organized into YouTube playlists, which is critical to the ranking, Mr. Feldman said. Charts are imperfect measuring sticks, susceptible to manipulation, lacking in transparency and calibrated more as snapshots of current popularity rather than overall popularity. Mr. Rogan, for example, moves up and down the rankings, but no show has ever come close to drawing his total audience. (Hosts who have managed to unseat his position on the charts include Kylie Kelce, who does not appear on YouTube's Top 100 list, and Mel Robbins, who is ranked at No. 76.) But platforms benefit when new names rise to the top, said Melissa Kiesche, senior vice president of Edison Research, which has built its own list of podcast rankings based on surveys. 'They don't want to see Joe Rogan at No. 1 every single week forever,' she said. Discovery drives more listening hours. Sometimes that discovery applies to household names, too. YouTube's Top 50 included podcasts from legacy television brands such as 'NBC Nightly News,' '60 Minutes' and 'Late Night With Seth Meyers.' Mr. Feldman characterized the chart, where Gen Z social media stars sit alongside cable figures who rose to prominence in the 1990s, like Nancy Grace or Tucker Carlson, as a 'good testament to how those worlds can coexist and hopefully thrive together.'


CNBC
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNBC
YouTube launches weekly top podcast list to rival Spotify and Apple
YouTube is solidifying its place in podcasts. The company on Thursday announced the launch of a weekly top podcast shows chart, rivaling those from Spotify and Apple. Podcasts like "The Joe Rogan Experience," "Kill Tony" and "Rotten Mango" currently top the YouTube chart. Alphabet-owned YouTube said podcasts earn more than one billion monthly active views. The platform is the most preferred service for listening to podcasts, beating out Spotify and Apple, Edison Research said in October. Ben Meiselas, co-founder of The MeidasTouch Podcast, said that YouTube offers the best cost-per-mile, or cost per thousand impressions, than other platforms. "YouTube just isn't a place where you drop your content from other sources," said Meiselas. "We want to focus on making YouTube a channel the way people watch cable news." MeidasTouch has nearly five million subscribers on YouTube and averages around 350 million views a month. They also share their podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Substack and Patreon. Video podcasts continue to be a dominating force in the media landscape and have been a frequent mention at this year's Upfronts. Spotify has continued to expand in the space, paying out more than $100 million to podcast publishers and podcasters worldwide in the first quarter of 2025 and offering video support. However, YouTube's payouts to creators and volume of users make the platform essential for podcasters looking for an audience. YouTube's Weekly Top Podcast Shows Chart is only tracking podcasts in the U.S. and will be updated every Wednesday, ranking the shows by watchtime.