Podtrac has released its podcast industry rankings for March 2023 with encouraging signs in overall growth.
In March, the US unique monthly audience increased by 10% from February for the Top 20 publishers, which was expected given the shorter length of the previous month. More encouraging, audience numbers were up 7% over March 2022. Global downloads were up 11% month-over-month, but flat year-over-year.
The Top 5 podcast publishers of March and their number of US listeners were:
- iHeartPodcasts – 33,908,000
- Wondery – 25,022,000
- NPR – 20,110,000
- New York Times – 12,233,000
- NBC News – 11,369,000
Wondery was the month’s top sales network, followed by Acast, Libsyn, and PodcastOne.
The Top 5 podcasts remained unchanged from February.
- The Daily – The New York Times
- Dateline NBC – NBC News
- Up First – NPR
- Morbid – Wondery
- NPR News Now – NPR
