Edison Research Announces Top 25 Podcasts in the UK for Q4 2025 from Edison Podcast Metrics
The Joe Rogan Experience, The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, and The Rest Is Politics remain in the top three spots
Glen Mills, PA USA (March 3, 2026) Edison Research announces the Top 25 Podcasts in the UK from Edison Podcast Metrics based on reach for the fourth quarter of 2025 among weekly podcast listeners ages 15+.
The Joe Rogan Experience, The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, and The Rest Is Politics top the list, as they did in Q3 2025. The top four shows remain in the same rank order as Q3, with other rank changes in the Top 10 noted below parenthetically. The full list of Top 25 podcasts is below.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Rest Is Politics
The Rest Is History
The Peter Crouch Podcast (+1 rank position since Q3 2025)
The Rest Is Football (-1 rank position since Q3 2025)
Newscast
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster (+1 rank position since Q3 2025)
Sh**ged Married Annoyed (+2 rank position since Q3 2025)
Crime Junkie (+2 rank position since Q3 2025)
Happy Diamond Anniversary! The Archers is going into its 75th season on BBC. First broadcast as a radio soap opera on January 1, 1951, the series has evolved over 75 years and continues to reflect contemporary rural life in England. The podcast show climbed 10 positions on our ranker since Q3 2025.
Notable moves:Stick to Football soared 22 positions and is this quarter’s biggest gainer. The podcast extended their sponsorship deal with Skybet over the Summer.
RedHanded is at a record high. The podcast breaks into the Top 20 for the first time since landing in the top 25 in Q3 2025.
About Edison Podcast Metrics
Edison Podcast Metrics is unique in that it is not dependent on podcast download data and does not require podcast networks to opt into its service. At least 2,000 weekly podcast consumers in the UK are surveyed each quarter, and listening behavior is collected regardless of listening platform. The same methodology is being employed in the UK as is used in the U.S.
Data from Edison Podcast Metrics UK provides show-level information on the top podcasts in the UK. Subscribers can analyze demographics, psychographics, and purchase-behavior information of weekly podcast listeners. The first Top Podcast Shows ranker in the U.S. was released by Edison Research in November 2019; the company has been tracking podcast consumption in the aggregate since 2006.
For more information on how to become a subscriber to the full datasets, please contact info@edisonresearch.com.
About Edison Research
Edison Research conducts survey research and provides strategic information to a broad array of clients worldwide, having conducted research in 66 countries. Edison Research’s The Infinite Dial® series has been the survey of record for digital audio, social media, podcasting, smart speakers, and other media-related technologies since 1998. The company’s Share of Ear® survey is the only single-source measure of all audio in the U.S. Edison Research is the leading podcast research company in the world, producing the only survey-based data on podcast listening in the U.S, Edison Podcast Metrics, and has conducted research for many companies in the space. Edison Research is part of SSRS.
