top US publishers & Networks

Podcast Industry Ranking Highlights
Top US Podcast Publishers and Networks
US Audience: May 2025
Rank Podcast Publisher US Unique Monthly Audience US Downloads & Streams Active Shows Sales Contact
1 iHeart Audience Network* 72,039,000 360,097,000 29,787 iHeartRadio
2 iHeartPodcasts 35,452,000 176,488,000 856 iHeartRadio
3 NPR Sales Network* 22,588,000 118,536,000 69 National Public Media
4 Libsyn* 22,270,000 91,368,000 868 Libsyn Ads
5 Acast*+ 20,114,000 74,274,000 55,859 Acast
6 The Walt Disney Company 7,243,000 24,968,000 127
7 Vox Media 7,234,000 21,525,000 70 Vox Media
8 Fox Audio Network 6,045,000 35,367,000 154 Fox Ad Solutions
9 PodcastOne 6,006,000 16,947,000 197 PodcastOne Sales
10 Paramount¹ 5,929,000 19,806,000 129
11 Barstool Sports 5,014,000 12,620,000 106 Barstool Sports Sales
12 CNN 4,380,000 12,069,000 69 Warner Media Ad Sales
13 Daily Wire+ 4,364,000 23,178,000 9 The Daily Wire
14 PRX 4,274,000 11,242,000 189 Soundrise
15 WNYC Studios 2,900,000 9,239,000 36 New York Public Radio
16 Blaze Media 2,655,000 11,396,000 16 Blaze Media
17 This American Life 2,508,000 4,348,000 1 National Public Media
18 ReVolver Podcasts 1,785,000 4,092,000 155 SXM Media
19 Lemonada Media 1,584,000 4,031,000 81 Lemonada Media

Total mobile and desktop US podcast audience.

Unique Monthly Audience:
Total of unique audience members who stream or download publisher's podcast content across all shows they produce.
Unique Streams & Downloads:
Total unique streams and downloads of podcast content for the month across all shows produced by publisher.
Active Shows:
Count of shows produced by publisher and measured by Podtrac which contribute to the totals in the Ranking.
Podcast Publisher:
An entity or individual which owns, creates and publishes podcasts. A Podcast Publisher may or may not sell advertising in their podcasts.
*Sales Network:
An entity which sells advertising in an aggregated network of podcasts which they may or may not own, create and publish. A Sales Network may include Podcast Publishers.
+Data for March 2025 (Acast's data is released after each quarterly financial report is published).

Ranking data only includes publishers that participate in Podtrac measurement for the full month for which the ranking is being released.