The iHeartPodcast Audience Network, which made its debut on Triton Digital’s ranking of biggest sales networks in the U.S. during May, held onto the top spot again in June. Triton data shows iHeart had average weekly users of more than 18.3 million listeners and average weekly downloads of 66.3 million last month. The iHeart Audience Network includes not only shows iHeartPodcasts publishes, but also other publisher’s shows that it sells advertising for.
Triton says the SiriusXM Podcast Network remained in second place with 12.7 million average weekly users and 38.2 million average weekly downloads.
Both NPR and Wondery once again have a claim on third place. In terms of weekly downloads, NPR ranked third, with 23.5 million on average. That put it ahead of Wondery’s 20.4 million.
But in terms of average weekly users, Wondery led during June. It had 6.9 million listeners each week on average according to Triton, while NPR had 6.4 million.
Audioboom rounded out the top five with 12.3 million average weekly downloads, and 4.9 million average weekly users.
Triton says during June the top three podcasts based on downloads included NPR News Now, which again ranked No. 1 among the publishers it measures, followed by NPR’s Up First and NBCUniversal News Group’s Dateline NBC climbing to third place.
For listeners, the top three podcasts in May based the publishers measured by Triton included NPR News Now, again at No.1, followed by Audiochuck’s Crime Junkie in second and NPR’s Up First in third place.
Triton says there were several debuts for the month of June including NBC’s Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra, iHeart’s Betrayal, SiriusXM’s Drowning Creek, Paramount’s The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, and iHeart’s The Idaho Massacre debuting for both downloads and listeners.
In terms of downloads, debuts including SiriusXM’s Strict Scrutiny, iHeart’s Las Culturistas, and iHeart’ Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
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