LiSTNR’s Hamish & Andy has again taken the top spot in Commercial Radio and Audio (CRA) and Triton Digital‘s July Australian Podcast Ranker.
Last month, Hamish & Andy recorded 862,794 monthly listeners and 1,788,786 monthly downloads.
Following Hamish & Andy are ABC News Top Stories, Casefile True Crime, Mamamia Out Loud, and News Corp’s Bronwyn.
Bronwyn follows the story of Bronwyn Winfield, a mother of two, who disappeared in 1993 in the midst of separating from her husband Jon. Bronwyn’s family and friends never heard from her again. She was just 31 when she went missing.
See also: Hedley Thomas on Bronwyn, and doing ‘more good with this sort of journalism than most’
Also from News Corp’s stable of crime podcasts, Cocaine Inc. sits at #135.
With the anticipation of the Paris Games building in July, and as the business end of winter sports approaches, LiSTNR sports titles saw significant audience increases across the month, including Dan Does Footy, which was up seven places to 195,145 listeners and The Howie Games, which gained 13 places with 158,900 listeners.
CommSec Market recorded a 32% increase in monthly listeners and Bizarre with Mick Molloy & Titus O’Reily jumped four places to 133,196 listeners in July.
For the 51st survey in a row, ARN’s iHeart has been named the top podcast publisher, with 4,536,354 monthly listeners.
ARN/iHeart’s Malevolent Mischief: True Stories of Horror raised 33 spots and recorded 343,787 monthly downloads with 13 new episodes.
Similarly, LiSTNR continued its run as the top sales representation podcast network nationally for the 23rd time and recorded 6,774,782 monthly listeners.
“As Australia’s number one sales representative network and with thriving sales revenue growth, LiSTNR has delivered an exceptional start to the new financial year and is paving the way for the digital audio industry,” executive head of LiSTNR podcasts, Grant Tothill, said.
“It was great to have many of our international partner titles, together with our owned and operated titles, move up in terms of ranking in July, which is fantastic recognition of all the hard work from the entire LiSTNR team.”