Casefile True Crime comes out on top in April's Podcast Ranker

The April rankings on Triton Digital's Podcast Ranker have been released, and iHeart's Casefile True Crime has claimed the top spot, knocking LiSTNR's Hamish and Andy down to the second spot. 

Casefile True Crime finished the month with 962,509 monthly listeners and 2,628,159 monthly downloads.

Joining Casefile True Crime in the top three on the Ranker is Hamish & Andy at #2 and Shameless coming in at #3, lifting 2 places.

LiSTNR's podcasts saw strong listener increases on the Ranker, led by sport and comedy titles. They also came out on top in terms of top sales representatives. Sports Bizarre, hosted by Titus O'Reily and Mick Molloy, jumped 36 places into the top 50 podcasts at no. 46, Triple M Rocks Footy AFL and Triple M Rocks Footy NRL both rose 21 spots to no. 24 and no. 62 respectively. 

WILOSOPHY, hosted by Wil Anderson, which moved to LiSTNR last year, climbed 19 spots and into the top 100 podcasts at no. 93, while KICPOD rose nine places and Motley Fool Money was up eight places. 

The newly published crime fiction You Don't Know Me and DM Podcasts' The Footy with Broden Kelly both made their debut in the top 150 podcasts. 

SCA executive head of LiSTNR podcasts, Grant Tothill said: “Today is another strong result for all of the teams that continue to work with our highly talented creators. Whether they be new or existing, radio or original podcasts, right across the business everyone has contributed as LiSTNR continues to be the number one podcast network, offering advertisers more ways to reach the ever-expanding podcast audience in Australia.”

ARN's iHeartPodcast Network remains the number one publisher in Australia as seen with Casefile. The Imperfects increased their position on the ranker to #5 overall (#1 Health & Wellness) with 491,339 listeners and 1.1 million monthly downloads. Life Uncut with Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne came in at #8 overall (#1 Relationship) with 376,408 listeners and 1.6 million monthly downloads. The Kyle & Jackie O Show (#1 Catchup) was #6 overall with 454,930 listeners and 2.6 million monthly downloads.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty joins ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia, (#2 Health & Wellness Podcast) at #14 overall with 250,372 listeners and 751,803 monthly downloads. Also joining ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia are two of the country’s best sporting podcasts Producey’s Dyl & Friends (#43 overall) and Producey’s List Cloggers (#59 overall).

ARN’s Head of Digital Audio, Corey Layton, said: “After 36 consecutive rankers at #1, the engagement of our podcast network continues to thrive with more podcast hits over 1m+ monthly downloads than any other publisher. There is so much yet to come for the network in 2023 and beyond, boosted by the news of Jay Shetty and Dylan Buckley’s Producey joining the network”

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