Top 25 UK podcasts for Q2 2023

The Joe Rogan Experience tops both UK and US charts

Top 25 UK podcasts for Q2 2023
Top 25 UK podcasts for Q2 2023

The Top 25 UK podcasts for Q2 2023 chart according to Edison Podcast Metrics has been published by Edison Research. Edison Podcast Metrics UK, the only podcast measurement service that measures the relative audience size and demographics of all podcasts and podcast networks in the UK.

The Edison Podcast Metrics Top 25 UK Podcasts of Q2 2023 list is derived from data collected continuously during the second quarter of 2023, interviewing 2,273 weekly podcast consumers ages 15 and older in the UK. Participants indicate which podcasts they listened to in the past week along with a variety of demographic, psychographic, and purchase-behaviour information. The data marks the debut of Edison Podcast Metrics into the UK market from US-based Edison Research.

The top three podcasts in the UK based on total weekly audience reach among weekly podcast listeners age 15+ are The Joe Rogan Experience, The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, and Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster.

The top 10 UK podcasts of Q2 2023

  1. The Joe Rogan Experience
  2. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
  3. Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
  4. Sh**ged Married Annoyed
  5. That Peter Crouch Podcast
  6. The Rest is Politics
  7. No Such Thing As A Fish
  8. Newscast
  9. The Therapy Crouch
  10. The Daily

Edison Podcast Metrics is unique in that it is not dependent on podcast download data and does not require podcast networks to opt into its service. At least 2,000 weekly podcast listeners in the UK are surveyed each quarter for the service, and listening behaviour is collected regardless of listening platform. The same methodology is being employed in the UK as is used in the US. The first Top Podcast Shows ranker in the US was released by Edison Research in November 2019 and the company has been tracking podcast consumption in the aggregate since 2006.

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