Edison Research has relveaed its latest Top 25 podcast list for the UK with The Joe Rogan Experience remaining at the top for another quarter.
This list ranks the 25 biggest podcasts based on total weekly audience reach as measured by Edison Podcast Metrics UK.
The Joe Rogan Experience, The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, and That Peter Crouch Podcast are the top three podcasts in the UK based on total weekly audience reach among weekly podcast listeners age 15+ for Q3 2023. The complete list of 25 is below.
Three shows made their Top 10 debut: Global’s The News Agents at number 7, Saving Grace at number 8, and Parenting Hell at number 10. Three shows dropped out of the Top 10 from Q2 2023: No Such Thing as a Fish, Newscast, and The Daily.
Scandals and spicy content buoyed Help I Sexted My Boss and The Girls Bathroom, as both shows had episodes that went viral. Newcomers to the podcast genre include The Louis Theroux Podcast which launched in May exclusively on Spotify, and Growing Paynes, which launched in July.
| Rank | Podcasts | Producer |
| 1 | The Joe Rogan Experience | Joe Rogan |
| 2 | The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett | The Diary of a CEO |
| 3 | That Peter Crouch Podcast | Tall or Nothing |
| 4 | Sh**ged Married Annoyed | Chris & Rosie Ramsey |
| 5 | The Rest Is Politics | Goalhanger Podcasts |
| 6 | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster | Plosive Productions |
| 7 | The News Agents | Global |
| 8 | Saving Grace | The Fellas Studios |
| 9 | The Therapy Crouch | Tall or Nothing |
| 10 | Parenting Hell | Keep it Light Media & Spotify Studios |
| 11 | No Such Thing as A Fish | No Such Thing as A Fish |
| 12 | ShxtsNGigs | shxtsngigs |
| 13 | Help I Sexted My Boss | Audio Always |
| 14 | NewlyWeds | JamPot Productions |
| 15 | Stuff You Should Know | iHeartPodcasts |
| 16 | The Infinite Monkey Cage | BBC |
| 17 | The Rest is History | Goalhanger Podcasts |
| 18 | Newscast | BBC |
| 19 | You’re Dead to Me | BBC |
| 20 | The Fellas | The Fellas Studio |
| 21 | The Louis Theroux Podcast | Spotify Studios |
| 22 | The Archers | BBC |
| 23 | Impaulsive with Logan Paul | Logan Paul |
| 24 | Crime Junkie | audiochuck |
| 25 | Growing Paynes | The Fellas Studios |
Edison Podcast Metrics is the only podcast measurement service that measures the relative audience size and demographics of all podcasts and podcast networks in the UK. The Q3 2023 ranker is derived from data collected continuously during the third quarter of 2023, interviewing 2,326 weekly podcast consumers ages 15 and older in the U.K. Participants indicate which podcasts they listened to in the past week along with a variety of demographic, psychographic, and purchase-behavior information.
This story first appeared on radiotoday.co.uk