Podcasts on Substack
The top 100 Podcasts writers on Substack's Bestsellers and Rising boards, with moves between my reads, follower counts, who's gaining recommendations and who recommends them. Boards read once a day.
- Writers on the two boards
- 100
- Median followers, Rising
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- Smallest on the board
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- New recommendations, 30 days
- 24
- to writers whose main category this is
Rising in Podcasts: new recommendations
Writers in this category who picked up the most new recommenders in the last 30 days. A new recommendation puts a writer in front of another publication's readers.
Sajal Kapoor
37k followers · #53 Podcasts Bestsellers
Josh Barro
171k followers · #31 Podcasts Bestsellers
Small/Mid Caps with Paul Scott
5.9k followers · #32 Podcasts Bestsellers
Henrik Zeberg
25k followers · #54 Podcasts Bestsellers
Justin Robert Young
13k followers · #79 Podcasts Bestsellers
Nightmare Vision
4.9k followers · #72 Podcasts BestsellersNew recommenders per week, last 12 weeks; the orange bar is this week to date. Same scale in every panel. Dated by Substack; only recommendations still live.
Rising
Substack ranks Rising by recent growth in paid subscribers. Followers are my daily reading.
No read of this board
Boards are read once a day.
The top 20 on every read
Rank on each read of the Rising board. Darker is higher. A gap means the writer was outside the top 100 on that read.
No reads
The first read fills this in.
History starts on Oct 31, 2026. Each day adds a column.
Who recommends Podcasts writers
Publications with the most live recommendations pointing at writers whose main category is Podcasts. If you write in this category, these are the readers' lists worth being on.