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What Do Chart-Topping Podcasts Have in Common?
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Ranking in the Spotify or Apple Podcasts charts is the ultimate goal of many new podcasters. It's no wonder; podcast discoverability remains pretty basic compared to other platforms. Making the charts gives you a good chance of getting found by more listeners.
The ranking algorithms powering the charts are famously opaque, although Apple recently revealed that the listens, follows and completion rate are the factors that affect their podcast chart rankings.
We dug in to see if there are any other notable traits for top-ranking podcasts by analyzing Rephonic’s data on chart rankings, gender skew, episode frequency and more, across a few dozen countries with the highest podcast listenership.
TL;DR:
Top-ranking shows on Spotify tend to be newer
Society & Culture, Comedy and True Crime shows chart the highest on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts
Top-ranking podcasts tend to publish new episodes weekly
Audiences of top-ranking shows on Apple Podcasts tend to skew male
Artical originally published on Rephonic/Blog.
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Article originally written by Jill Duffy and published on PC Mag.
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