Podcast Ranker December 2021: New entries from LiSTNR, Podshape & WAN

Posted on 13 January 2022

Wondery’s Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera charts

This month the same top three publishers for the Australian Podcast Ranker are ARN/iHeartMedia, LiSTNR (SCA) and Audioboom.

The Top 100 Ranker and Top 100 All-Australian Ranker feature the same top two podcasts – Casefile True Crime (Audioboom) and Hamish & Andy (LiSTNR – SCA). The top three spot was new on both charts, with The Update (Nova Entertainment) moving higher.

Total downloads of all shows by all participating publishers in the month of December is 53.2m, the third-highest ever, but down on the preceding two months.

The highest new entry on the Australian Podcast chart was the Triple M Cricket podcast which debuted at #22 with 94 episodes and 83,000 monthly episodes.

Other Australian debuts this month included Who Killed Bob? from Podshape at #48, and My Name is Cleo from West Australian Newspapers at #57.

The highest international podcast debut on the ranking of all podcasts in Australia was Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera. The series is published by Wondery and represented in Australia by Ranieri & Co. The Australian sales rep business The Ranieri & Co was founded by Rob Ranieri and Nick Randall. They exclusively represent the world’s largest independent podcast publisher Wondery in Australia and New Zealand. Wondery also create hit shows such as Dr Death, Dirty John, The School of Greatness, Business Wars, The Shrink Next Door and The Apology Line. Twenty of Wondery’s shows have reached #1 on Apple Podcasts. Ranieri & Co. also make original audio content for brands.

Participating publishers in the Australian Ranker include Audioboom, ARN/iHeartMedia, DM Podcasts, Equity Mates Media, Hidden Brain Media, LiSTNR (SCA), Motorsport Podcast Network, News Corp Australia, Nine, NOVA Entertainment, Podshape, Schwartz Media, Sports Entertainment Network (SEN), Stitcher Media, TOFOP Productions, The Chaser, Wavelength Creative and West Australian Newspapers.

Triton Digital’s Podcast Ranker lists the Top Podcasts from participating publishers in a particular region, as measured by Triton’s Podcast Metrics measurement service.