Summary

Joe Rogan’s podcast has lost its long-held No. 1 ranking to the anti-Trump MeidasTouch Podcast, according to Podscribe data.

MeidasTouch, founded by the Meiselas brothers, saw a 101% increase in downloads, reaching 56 million, while The Joe Rogan Experience dropped 32% to 48.6 million.

The shift marks a rare moment where a left-leaning podcast overtakes typically dominant conservative voices.

It remains uncertain whether MeidasTouch will maintain its top position or if other anti-Trump podcasts will gain traction.

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[–] 89 points 2 years ago (15 children)

This is like the gen alpha version of “MSNBC beats out Fox as most viewed cable news network” headlines from 2017

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Yes, but that also like never happened. Fox was always dominant.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    It definitely did?

    Edit: apparently only for brief periods. If you consider his first term overall, Fox did dominate

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I would fucking love that if it were true but it most certainly is not

    https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news/

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I think it was just for like a week or two so it wouldn't necessarily show up in the yearly averages in those charts.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2017/07/25/msnbc-beat-fox-because-it-covered-the-news/

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Is your point that no one listens to podcasts? Because they do.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Why would he mean that? They appear to be the two most-watched cable news channels in the US.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSNBC

    In the fourth quarter of 2023, MSNBC was the second most-watched cable news network in the U.S., averaging 792,000 total day viewers, behind rival Fox News, which averaged 1.212 million viewers, and ahead of CNN, which averaged 502,000 viewers

    Also, man, that surprises me. I thought that CNN was the largest. I was expecting Fox to be second-largest and MSNBC to be in the top five or something.

    Maybe I'm just really out-of-date.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Just trying to figure out what they meant. Cable news is on the downswing so that was my guess

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Oh, gotcha.

    Yeah, actually, I mean, I know that it was losing viewers, but I'm also kind of surprised that the numbers are that low, now that I think about it, if that's "viewers" and not "households viewing".

    It looks like 2010 was the beginning of the decline.

    I think I last had cable service somewhere around 2004.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yeah I think I had cable until about 2014. But for about 8-10 years before that my cable company literally gave me a discount for taking cable with my Internet. I basically never watched it but I'm not paying extra to lose that option.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Pretty sure they weren't implying anything behind it, just that it is similar to what happened back then but with Fox vs MSNBC. People shifting more into left once again, will have to wait and see if it will be major shift.

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