Overview
- Spotify released its 2025 U.S. top 50 podcasts, naming The Joe Rogan Experience No. 1.
- On Spotify, 24 of the top 50 shows have video, and time spent with video more than doubled as 390 million users streamed a video podcast.
- Other leading Spotify titles include This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, The Mel Robbins Podcast, Call Her Daddy, and Crime Junkie.
- YouTube issued its first annual podcast data with Rogan at No. 1, alongside top performers such as KILL TONY, Good Mythical Morning, and Rotten Mango.
- Spotify’s video push is extending to distribution partnerships, with a nonexclusive Netflix slate of Spotify video podcasts starting in 2026 including The Bill Simmons Podcast and Serial Killers.