CRA releases first monthly podcast ranking, with Hamish and Andy at the top
Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) has announced the launch of the first monthly Australian Podcast Ranker which will see Australia’s top 100 most-downloaded and listened to podcasts ranked each month.
The ranking, announced today at the Radio Alive conference in Brisbane, launches with a foundation group of podcast publishers including News Corp Australia, Podcast One Australia, Nova Entertainment, Southern Cross Austereo (SCA), Australian Radio Network (ARN), Macquarie Media and SEN/ Crocmedia.
The first Australian Podcast Ranker top 20 [Click to enlarge]
So is that 7 of the top 10 that are just radio show best-ofs?
7 of the 10 top from the companies that contribute to the ranking list.
The lede is misleading in saying that the list contains “Australia’s top 100 most-downloaded and listened to podcasts ranked each month”
What a depressing list! Apart from a few standouts (Hamish & Andy included) this reads as a ‘things my dad would download’ list – have the over 65s finally discovered Podcasts or is Australia just that boring? Where’s the variety? Here’s some recommendations for any Podcast newbies:
• Ask an Anatomist
• Australian True Crime
• Better than Yesterday with Osher Gunsburg
• CHILDPROOF with Tony Martin
• Don’t You Know Who I Am? (Podcast panel comedy show hosted by Josh Earl)
• FitBet with Dilruk & Ben (Fitness and Comedy)
• The Grub (Comedy with Anne Edmonds, Ben Russell and Greg Larsson)
• Plant Strong with Rip Esselstyn (Nutrition)
• TEAM Effort (Comedy)
• Ash Williams Podcast (Comedy)
• Plant Proof (Nutrition)
• Welcome to Night Vale (Sci Fi)
• We Want to Be Better (Lifestyle)
• Tony Martin’s Sizzletown
• The Rich Roll Podcast
Any of these are better than a lot of that depressing list.
Worth noting the significant absence of Australian podcasts not created by a commercial radio network.
Great that this has been created but it’s currently a slightly misleading representation of the podcast landscape in Australia.
Feels like grocery shopping at a 7-11 rather than a Woolworths.
There is a conspicuous absence of any kind of metric. I would have expected even something equivalent to ‘market share’ to use compare the relative popularity of each podcast.
These appear to be primarily ‘radio-based’ podcasts.
Is the ‘market’ they are reporting on open to non-radio based podcasts?
Maybe their system requires signing-up or deploying some measurement software or device in order to be reported – if so, is it open to all?
Seems all rather smelly… top podcasts are all network produced, when all the data is only from the networks. Without prodding the lion, where’s the Spotify data? Surely it would make sense to have the out and out biggest streaming platform’s data for a semblance of neutral overall scoring? Or is that against the CRA rules?
Love to know what it is for individual episodes. These are all pretty much daily podcasts by the look. Casefile only do usually 3 a month vs the breakfast ones that would do 20 odd.