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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