The Triton Australian Podcast Ranker for May 2026 has been released and Mamamia Out Loud has reclaimed No 1 from Hamish and Andy. Mamamia Out Loud’s more than a million monthly listeners is more than doubled that of third place’s Sky News Australia Update. To make that even more impressive, the ranker only measures audio, not video.
Last month saw Mamamia Out Loud drop some 400,000 of their audience. There was a bit going on in the organisation with Claire Murphy, senior producer and host of their news podcast The Quicky as well as around 10 others, made redundant. Mamamia Out Loud release four podcast episodes less last month than they normally would, so that will have impacted listening too.
June was a return to form for Mamamia’s flagship podcast, with The Quicky holding firm in the top 20. All up Mamamia had four titles in the top 20 – Mamamia Out Loud #1, No Filter #8 (up 12), The Quicky #18 and True Crime Conversations at #20, up 10 places.
The ABC had four in the top 20 too, the highest being ABC Conversations, back into the top 5 at #4 with the most monthly downloads, just in excess of Mamamia Out Loud’s. There were 7 news podcasts in the top 20 too, with news the most consumed genre.
The top radio catch up podcast belonged to SEN Breakfast who were up one place to 7 and continue to grow their audience. Life Uncut with Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne moved into the top five for the first time. It must be consideration for SCA to give the pair a radio show after they were let go from ARN last year and continue to build their audience too.
The Uninspired Unemployed, which returned to podcasting with LiSTNR last month dropped seven places to #30 after an impressive debut. The highest true crime podcast was Australian True Crime, at #14, which can almost be called catch up radio now, with host Meshel Laurie now also having her own show on the KIIS Network on a Sunday night called True Crime Tonight.
Right down the bottom of the ranker, at #298, was the new KIIS Breakfast podcast with 17K monthly listeners. It’s a far cry from the heady days of Kyle and Jackie O, who might see a million monthly downloads, but it’s a start.
