Metrics Surge For Dan Bongino's Podcast

Cumulus Media’s Westwood One today has announced that The Dan Bongino Show podcast saw a surge in growth in July 2024. 

Listeners turned to Bongino for his expertise and insight as a former United States Secret Service agent following the assassination attempt against former President Donald J. Trump just prior to the Republican National Convention. 

The show delivered increases in both month-over-month audio and video downloads and rose in the podcasts trackers as well. For the last two weeks of July, The Dan Bongino Show experienced a significant increase in downloads over the previous month, launching the podcast to higher positions across all major ranking charts.

Key Facts:

• The total number of downloads for The Dan Bongino Show podcast for the month of July 2024 was 16,382,838, which represents a 40% increase over June, at 11,680,939 (per Megaphone).
• The surge of interest in The Dan Bongino Show propelled him to number 2 Overall on the Apple Podcasts Charts on July 18 and number 1 in the News category from July 15-30.
• On The Podcast Charts by Spotify: The Dan Bongino Show rose to the number 3 position overall between July 19-22 and number 2 in News from July 19-25.
• In the last two weeks of July, the average download per episode was approximately 30% higher than June.
• On Rumble, the total numbers of raw video views of The Dan Bongino Show podcast in July was 42,656,001. This represents a 51% increase over June (28,182,009).