Podcast Industry Week: September 28 to October 4, 2026
Recorded findings from PROOF scans for the week of 2026-09-28 to 2026-10-04 (US storefront). All figures are mechanical measurements from scheduled captures.
Top charts
The Overall top 20 as of Oct 4, with each show's position change across the week and hosting platform. Review counts at or below the 10th percentile of the chart's reference distribution are flagged red, below the 25th amber.
The Daily
Simplecast
11k
Crime Junkie
Simplecast
55.1k
Dateline NBC
Simplecast
2.4k
The Joe Rogan Experience
Megaphone
15.1k
REAL AF with Andy Frisella
Libsyn
8k
The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Podbean
60
Mick Unplugged
Megaphone
66
Up First from NPR
Simplecast
7.5k
Morbid
Simplecast
19.2k
Pod Save America
Audioboom
14k
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Simplecast
49
Pardon My Take
Barstool Sports
14.3k
Tomorrow, Today
Simplecast
3
20/20
Megaphone
1.2k
The Ezra Klein Show
Simplecast
1.8k
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Megaphone
1.4k
Unblinded with Sean Callagy
Spotify/Anchor
44
Proven Podcast
Libsyn
23
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Megaphone
600
The Shawn Ryan Show
Megaphone
16.4k
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
Megaphone
The Home Service Expert Podcast
Libsyn
Giggly Squad
Acast
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Acast
Growth Triggers: Content Marketing & AI
Flightcast
The MeatEater Podcast
iHeart / Triton
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
iHeart / Triton
Video
158 unique shows ranked on video charts as of Oct 4, up 8 from 150 a week earlier. 10 shows appeared on a video chart for the first time.
hol+ with Dr. Taz MD | The Future of Medicine is Holistic
Health & Fitness
#1
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast
Overall
#1
Bone Valley
True Crime
#1
What the Fact with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy
History
#1
Friends Per Second
Leisure
#2
Street You Grew Up On
Society & Culture
#2
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Arts
#3
Bite Back with Abbey Sharp
Science
#3
Call 'Em Like Museum with Eric Johnson
History
#3
The Daily Stoic
Education
#4
Hosting share across the 164 shows verified as publishing video on the tracked charts, measured by the Oct 3 scan. Deltas compare against the Sep 27 scan.
Chart movement
Positions compare each chart's last capture of the week with its last prior capture, between Sep 27 and Oct 4. 380 shows appeared on a tracked chart for the first time on record and 85 shows ranked in the prior capture did not appear at any point during the week.
5 charts changed leaders: The Big Picture took the top spot on TV & Film from Watch What Crappens; Tony Mantor's : Almost Live..... Nashville took the top spot on Music from The Joe Budden Podcast; The Ezra Klein Show took the top spot on Society & Culture from This American Life; Full Body Chills took the top spot on Fiction from Table Read; The Team House took the top spot on History from The Rest Is History.
ResponseABLE Parenting
Kids & Family
194→40
Stubborn Things
Government
197→43
Plagues with Dr. Keith
History
149→4
Drive Thru Magic
Fiction
176→35
Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast
Health & Fitness
168→33
Nintendo Voice Chat
Leisure
145→13
پادکست اتاق تراپی | The Therapy Room
Science
170→38
The Broski Report with Brittany Broski
Comedy
193→64
Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist
Technology
165→37
Crashes, Claims & Clarity
Education
192→67
The JOY of LIVING
Education
35→194
Cheap Talk
Government
39→182
Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast
Society & Culture
10→135
The Astrology Podcast
Religion & Spirituality
76→198
Mind the Game
Sports
46→163
Drummer Seeks Musicians: The Making of U2
Music
22→138
You're Not Too Much
Health & Fitness
82→196
Osterholm Update
Science
67→181
Bishop Fulton Sheen Remastered
Religion & Spirituality
70→182
Planet Visionaries – SEASON 6
Science
49→160
the Girls
Society & Culture
#5
Power On with Mark Gurman
Technology
#5
The Head Start: Embracing the Journey
Health & Fitness
#8
Skill Up
Leisure
#8
The New Wave Music Podcast
Music
#9
My Mom’s Murder
True Crime
#10
World of Warcraft: Forever The Podcast
Leisure
#10
You Better Win: The History of Ford Racing
History
#14
Rural Route Realities
Government
#14
Is She Game?
Sports
#17
Liberty Lounge Podcast
Government
was #122 · 2 recorded days
China in the World
Government
was #139 · 2 recorded days
Listen up Loudoun
Government
was #140 · 8 recorded days
How To Human Podcast
Education
was #143 · 41 recorded days
The Ray Stevens Show
Government
was #143 · 11 recorded days
Not Quite Quorum
Government
was #144 · 6 recorded days
Tom & Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest
Arts
was #149 · 21 recorded days
Tripp After Dark
Society & Culture
was #150 · 4 recorded days
Grandma Kerri’s Sleepy Time Classics
Arts
was #153 · 4 recorded days
Hosting and prefix market share
Share of the roughly 3,799 unique shows across the tracked top 200s, measured by the Oct 3 scan. Deltas compare against the Sep 27 scan.
Feed changes
14 hosting platform moves were recorded this week, along with 12 feed URL changes.
Smosh Reads Reddit Stories
Audioboom → Amperwave
Rob Has a Podcast | Big Brother, Survivor & Reality TV - RHAP
Megaphone → Simplecast
followHIM
Buzzsprout → RSS.com
Hidden Power: A Pokemon Podcast
Spotify/Anchor → RedCircle
Ark News Daily
Simplecast → Beehiiv
Shield of the Republic
Audioboom → Substack
UNCOVERED
Megaphone → Amperwave
Deux U
Amperwave → Megaphone
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Megaphone → Captivate
The Night Owl: True Ghost Stories
Buzzsprout → iHeart / Triton
Enclosure changes
The hourly enclosure scan recorded 774 changes across 504 shows: 299 enclosure URL, 55 episode GUID, and 250 episode title changes.
The Unforgotten
6 URL
16 changes
Music News Radio
3 URL + 13 GUID
16 changes
Purple Daily - A Minnesota Vikings Podcast
10 URL + 2 title
12 changes
The Daily Stoic
5 URL
11 changes
Bloodrock Springs
2 URL + 2 GUID
11 changes
Infrastructure
2 of 42 monitored services recorded downtime. The largest was Beehiiv at about 90 minutes.
Newly observed domains
7 previously unobserved domains appeared in this week's feed scans. Newly observed domains are listed as recorded and have not been classified.
Figures come from PROOF's scheduled captures: daily Apple Podcasts chart snapshots (top 200 across the tracked charts, US storefront), daily video chart captures with per show verification, daily hosting and prefix scans of ranked shows, hourly enclosure checks, and infrastructure checks every 30 minutes. Position changes compare each chart's last capture of the week with its last prior capture. Review flags compare a show's written review count against the chart's reference distribution. Newly observed domains are unclassified and listed as recorded. Explore the live data in the PROOF tools.