Hamish & Andy claim top spot in Australian Podcast Ranker

Hamish & Andy have claimed top spot in the latest Triton Digital Australian Podcast Ranker.

Audioboom‘s Casefile True Crime podcast dropped to #2, while Mamamia Out Loud rounds out the top 3.

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LiSTNR delivered its best-ever result in May, with 20 podcasts in the top 50 of the Australian Podcast Ranker.

It says Hamish & Andy grew its audience to more than 1.019 million, the first time the podcast has achieved this audience size since the ranker has measured monthly listeners.

The LiSTNR network has seven podcasts in the top 20 including Crime Junkie, SmartLess, Morbid, The Howie Games and Just the Gist.

SCA Executive Head of LiSTNR Podcasts Grant Tothill says “There is no doubt podcast listening is gaining further ground in Australia and LiSTNR’s ability to provide a created and curated premium slate of local and international podcasts gives listeners a fantastic depth of choice.”

“As one of the few companies in Australia focused on creating original podcasts, this is an outstanding achievement for LiSTNR, eclipsing our best ever previous month as a publisher of original podcasts to achieve 4 million listeners, and setting a new audience benchmark as a podcast network of 8.6 million monthly listeners.”

ARN’s iHeartPodcast Network Australia has five of the top ten podcasts.

Audioboom’s Casefile, the popular true crime podcast, had 2.9 million monthly downloads.

The Imperfects podcast continues to build its audience, holding the fifth spot overall in the ranker.

Making its ranker debut was The Pool Room with Tony Armstrong at #99 with 58,056 listeners and 131,782 downloads.

ARN’s Head of Digital Audio Corey Layton says “The engagement the iHeartPodcast Network’s incredible slate continues to deliver is astonishing. With six shows delivering over 1 million downloads, we continue to provide listeners and advertisers with more podcast hits than anyone else.”

While SEN registered its largest monthly podcast audience throughout May, based on the Australian Podcast Ranker.

It says it achieved a record 638,645 unique Australian listeners throughout the month for all podcasts, with 3,542,517 downloads indicating a significant month of podcast growth.

The monthly listeners record represents a month-on-month increase of 26% from April.