{"id":553003,"date":"2026-07-31T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/553003\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:37:13","slug":"who-is-the-highest-paid-podcaster-the-top-earners-are-shocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/553003\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is the Highest Paid Podcaster? The Top Earners Are Shocking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wondered what your favorite (and least favorite) podcasters are making? Turns out…enormous amounts of money!<\/p>\n

Forbes<\/a> just revealed the highest-paid podcasters of 2026, and the top earner? That\u2019d be Joe Rogan, whose podcast The Joe Rogan Experience brought in $82 million in earnings. Note: Forbes calculated the total \u201cearned by talent and\/or their corporate entities through minimum guarantees, revenue sharing, platform fees, and live events from June 2025 to June 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next on the list is Technology Business Programming Network, which brought in $70 million in earnings, followed by Steven Bartlett\u2019s Diary of a CEO at $45 million, Ashley Flowers\u2019 Crime Junkie, which came in just under at $42 million, and the SmartLess podcast (hosted by Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes), which earned $37 million in the same time frame.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re wondering about New Heights (Jason and Travis Kelce\u2019s podcast), it earned $35 million\u2014the same as The Mel Robbins Podcast. And, of course, Alex Cooper\u2019s Call Her Daddy made the list, earning $32 million from June 2025 to July 2026.<\/p>\n

Other notable earnings? Dax Shepard\u2019s Armchair Expert brought in $25 million, Amy Poehler\u2019s Good Hang brought in $24 million, Jay Shetty\u2019s On Purpose brought in $21 million, and Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo\u2019s Giggly Squad brought in $18 million.<\/p>\n

In conclusion: no wonder literally every celebrity has a podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever wondered what your favorite (and least favorite) podcasters are making? Turns out…enormous amounts of money! Forbes just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,2115,271753,2117,156,207184,2462,111,139,69,179496,271752,251090,147908],"class_list":["post-553003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-e6572fea-8079-4db5-b2de-9e4466bcb9f4","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-read_time-1","tag-shorttitle-meet-the-highest-paid-podcasters-of-2026","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-celebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}