Five Other Conservative Podcasts Also Post Double-Digit Sub Increases
“Candace,” the daily podcast hosted by far-right extremist Candace Owens, ranked as the fastest-growing right-wing podcast in the fourth quarter of 2025. According to TheRighting’s latest exclusive analysis, the number of year-over-year subscribers for “Candace” on the Castbox platform grew 101% compared to Q4 2024. “Candace” ended 2025 with 70,708 Castbox subscribers, up 37,051 from December 31, 2024, when the show had 33,657 subscribers. It ranked as the ninth-most subscribed right-wing podcast.
“The remarkable growth of her podcast in the past year shows that there’s a large, receptive audience for her ugly conspiracy theories and outrageous rhetoric,” said Howard Polskin, President, TheRighting, who pointed to Owens’ claim that France’s First Lady is really a man, and that Israel, France and Egypt could have been responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk. “Podcast subscriber increases for right-wing stalwarts such as Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Ted Cruz have slowed to a trickle, while Owens has experienced hockey-stick growth in the last year.”
Five other right-wing podcasts also generated double-digit YOY percentage growth in Q4: “The Ben Shapiro Show,” “The Charlie Kirk Show,” “The Megyn Kelly Show,” “The Tucker Carlson Show” and “The Matt Walsh Show.”
Top Q4 Right-Wing Podcasts by YOY % Growth
(percentage growth of new subscribers on the Castbox platform,Q4 2025 v Q4 2024)
–“Candace,” 101%
–“The Megyn Kelly Show,” 88%
–“The Charlie Kirk Show,” 65%
–“The Tucker Carlson Show,” 47%
–“The Ben Shapiro Show,” 24%
–“The Matt Walsh Show,” 19%
Top Q4 Right-Wing Podcasts by Subscriber Growth
(total number of new subscribers added on the Castbox platform, Q4 2025 v Q4 2024):
–“The Ben Shapiro Show,” 166,932 subscribers
–“The Megyn Kelly Show,” 92,668
–“The Tucker Carlson Show,” 53,185
“The Ben Shapiro Show” remains the dominant right-wing podcast with 863,938 subscribers on the Castbox platform as of December 31, 2025. It is almost double its closest competitor. The podcast added 166,932 subscribers in Q4, far more than any other right-wing podcast.
Methodology
This report is based on data that is updated daily from the podcast app Castbox, which is the fifth most popular app on the podcast-hosting platform Buzzsprout. Castbox represents 2.5% of all podcasts that Buzzsprout serves. No other leading podcast app besides Castbox makes its data publicly available. TheRighting’s top 20 chart only lists programs that have had new podcasts available on the Castbox platform since January 1, 2023.
