Audiences across the ABC’s podcast slate grew by 51,000 listeners in October according to the Triton Podcast ranker release today.
The ABC had more titles featured than any other publisher and was the third most listened to publisher in Australia last month.
October was a strong month for news titles and the ABC had the number 1 and number 2 most listened to news titles (ABC News Top Stories and News Top Stories). These titles also performed strongly in the overall list with ABC News Top Stories at number 3 position and ABC News Daily recording its biggest audience of the year landing at number 10.
The ABC’s most recent true crime series Unravel: Mr Big landed at number 39 on the October list after the full series was released.
Hosted by ABC reporter Alicia Bridges, Unravel: Mr Big investigates a secretive crime boss caught on tape touting his corrupt connections to police and the courts. But like the recording which sparked the investigation, nothing is what it seems.
ABC Director Audio Ben Latimer said: “The results from October once again demonstrate the ABC’s trusted role in delivering news and information to Australian audiences”.
“The ABC is now turning our focus to our summer broadcast plans to ensure audiences have enough first run and favourite content to see them through the break.”
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.