The ABC has achieved our highest ever place for a podcast in the Triton Australian Podcast Ranker for July. ABC News Top Stories is the second most listened to podcast in Australia with 764,000 listeners up 177,000 from June.
The ABC continued to be the most represented publisher in the list with 33 titles in July and a number of ABC programs delivering record listener numbers.
Olympic fever saw another strong month for the ABC’s sport podcasts. Roy and HG gained significant audiences due in part to their special Paris Olympics podcast Roy & HG: People, Medals and Cheese. The program added 48,000 listeners for a new record of 149,000 and climbed 28 ranks to #41 on the list. ABC SPORT Daily remained the number one sport podcast in Australia and climbed 4 spots to number 21.
Audience appetite for news was also evident with Background Briefing climbing 62 ranks to #86 and gaining 31,000 listeners thanks to the Linton Besser presented Notorious series. PM gained 25 ranks and added 10,000 listeners for 52,000 listeners in July
Not Stupid which launched in May and featured for the first time in the June ranker grew 11,000 listeners and moved up 20 ranks to #89. Double J’s Bang On with Myf Warhurst and Zan Rowe which has been selling out live shows across Australia jumped 14 places and is just outside the top 100 at #106 with 66k monthly listeners.
The I Was Actually There podcast debuted in the ranker at #164, following its launch in June. The podcast and TV program, presented by creator Kirk Docker recounts gripping stories told by people who witnessed history first-hand.
ABC Head of Audio content Ben Latimer said: “It’s wonderful to see audiences turn to the ABC to cheer on our sportsmen and sportswomen in Paris.”
“ABC SPORT Daily, Roy and HG and our ABC News podcasts did a fantastic job of bringing audiences all the highlights from Australia’s most successful Olympics ever.”
The full Triton Australian Podcast Ranker can be found here.
Audiences can enjoy all the ABC’s podcasts for free and ad free on ABC listen.
The Australian Podcast Ranker is a regular monthly snapshot of Australia’s most popular podcasts. The Ranker has been reporting podcast listening in Australia since 2019 and includes a wide cross section of Australian podcast publishers, from both radio and non-radio backgrounds.