Top 100 of 2025
From breakout hits to returning favourites, these are the podcasts that picked up the most new followers on Pocket Casts in 2025!
created 18 DECEMBER 2025
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Good Hang with Amy Poehler
The Ringer
The Rest Is History
Goalhanger
The Daily
The New York Times
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
DOAC
The Ezra Klein Show
New York Times Opinion
The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott
Audacy, Red Hour, Great Scott
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
The Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Rogan
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Mel Robbins
How to Be a Better Human
TED
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
Huberman Lab
Scicomm Media
You're Dead to Me
BBC Radio 4
This American Life
This American Life
Ologies with Alie Ward
Alie Ward
Hidden Brain
Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
The Rest Is Politics
Goalhanger
The Rest Is Classified
Goalhanger
99% Invisible
Roman Mars
Radiolab
WNYC Studios
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Network
Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
Pod Save America
Crooked Media
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Team Coco & Earwolf
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Dan Carlin
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
The Telepathy Tapes
Ky Dickens
TED Talks Daily
TED
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall
CBC
Planet Money
NPR
Sleepy History
Slumber Studios
Freakonomics Radio
Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
Up First from NPR
NPR
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
NOISER
Global News Podcast
BBC World Service
SmartLess
Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett
The Zach Lowe Show
The Ringer
In Our Time
BBC Radio 4
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
Darknet Diaries
Jack Rhysider
Hard Fork
The New York Times
Empire
Goalhanger
A Twist of History
Ballen Studios
Search Engine
PJ Vogt
How I AI
Claire Vo
The Louis Theroux Podcast
Spotify Studios
The Last Invention
Longview
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
Revolutions
Mike Duncan
Science Vs
Spotify Studios
Hyperfixed
Hyperfixed & Radiotopia
The Moth
The Moth
StarTalk Radio
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
Heavyweight
Pushkin Industries
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
Pivot
New York Magazine
Serial
Serial Productions & The New York Times
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
The Rest Is Politics: US
Goalhanger
The Rest Is Entertainment
Goalhanger
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
The Rest Is Science
Goalhanger
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
New York Times Opinion
Supercommunicators with Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Vox Media Podcast Network
Fresh Air
NPR
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
NPR
Crime Junkie
Audiochuck
Journey Through Time
Goalhanger
Dwarkesh Podcast
Dwarkesh Patel
Scam Factory
Wondery
Once We Were Spacemen
Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk
Version History
The Verge
The Magnus Archives
Rusty Quill
Revisionist History
Pushkin Industries
The Economics of Everyday Things
Freakonomics Network & Zachary Crockett
Titanic: Ship of Dreams
NOISER
ill-advised by Bill Nighy
EYEPOD Studios
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC Radio 4
Welcome to Night Vale
Night Vale Presents
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
iHeartPodcasts
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Higher Ground
Today, Explained
Vox
What Now? with Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah
Casefile True Crime
Casefile Presents
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
Pod Save the World
Crooked Media
Lateral with Tom Scott
Tom Scott and David Bodycombe
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
Theo Von
Life Kit
NPR
TED Radio Hour
NPR
The Shawn Ryan Show
Shawn Ryan
I've Had It
Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan
6 Minute English
BBC Radio
No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Marc Maron