Top 25 UK Podcasts for Q3 2024

The Rest is Politics makes it into the top three

Top 25 UK Podcasts for Q3 2024

The Top 25 UK podcasts for Q3 2024 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 Q3 2024 list is derived from data collected continuously during the third quarter of 2024, interviewing 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.

New to the Top 10 for the first time is The Rest Is History, which gained significant media attention thanks to its live tour launched in September. The tour began in Cambridge and Oxford. The October performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall, featuring the works of Mozart and Beethoven and accompanied by alive orchestra, sold out as early as May.

The top 10 UK podcasts of Q3 2024

  1. The Joe Rogan Experience
  2. The Rest is Politics (up two spots)
  3. The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett (-1)
  4. The Rest is Football (+4)
  5. Sh**ged, Married, Annoyed (-2)
  6. The Rest is History (+7)
  7. That Peter Crouch Podcast (-2)
  8. The News Agents (+2)
  9. ShxtsNCigs (+2)
  10. Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster (-4)

For a list of specific show titles in the US Top 50, go to Top 50 US podcasts for Q3 2024.

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.

For more information on Edison Podcast Metrics go here.

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