Podcast Trends
The Top Podcast Companies
Who are the top podcast companies in the industry right now? We list 18 of our favorite podcast agencies for you to explore and check out.
Supporting and learning from our competitors has been a priority for us at Quill since day one, a process we internally refer to as “competitive collaboration.” How could we not? Rival podcast companies spur us to ever greater heights, not to mention help to move our industry forward by putting out such great content. While we love creating podcasts for brands, we also thoroughly enjoy collaborating with other podcast companies to achieve something greater together than would have been possible siloed. So, when an opportunity for co-opetition, an admittedly eye-watering portmanteau for cooperation and competition, comes along, we are one of the first to put our hands up.
In the spirit of this philosophy, we wanted to profile a few other podcast companies who specialize in production that we have admired from afar, and whose work we look to for daily inspiration. Read on below to find out more about these 18 ground-breaking companies, as well as some of our picks for their top must-listen podcasts:
1. Quill
About our Agency: Quill is a full-service podcast production and marketing agency that specializes in branded podcasts. We work with enterprise clients to launch, grow, and measure the impact of their podcasts. We are the parent company to CoHost, a podcast analytics and audience insights platform that provides brands with the data they need to know if they're hitting their target audience and measure ROI.
Our favorite shows produced by our team:
Although it's challenging to pick our favorites, a few stand-outs include:
2. Pacific Content
About the Agency: If you’re at all involved in podcast production, you’ve heard of Pacific Content. They are one of the leading podcast agencies and media production companies in Canada, helping some of our favorite and most well-known brands create and market compelling audio stories.
As of June 2024, Pacific Content has closed its doors.
Our favorite shows produced by their team:
McAfee’s branded podcast: Hackable?
About the Podcast: A podcast that combines MythBusters and cyber security. Powered by McAfee, Hackable? is educating all of us on cyber security but in a fun, entertaining, and thought-provoking way. But we think the most important aspect of the show is that it is relevant to all of us in today’s day and age of technology. Learn how to protect yourself with Hackable?
Slack’s branded podcast: Work in Progress
About the Podcast: Produced by Slack and hosted by Pacific Content’s Dan Misener, Work in Progress is diving into the identity that we find within our work. Episodes cover everything from a dream-like career success to some of our most debilitating insecurities.
Morgan Stanley’s branded podcast: Now What’s Next?
About the Podcast: We can all collectively agree that the pandemic has altered our life in one way or another. We’ve all been stuck in the now, but what will happen after the global pandemic? Now What’s Next is on a mission to find the answers to that question.
3. JAR Podcast Solutions
About the Agency: Based out of Vancouver, Canada, JAR Podcast Solutions works with brands across North America to launch their branded shows and continues to produce podcasts that create meaningful connections between podcast consumers and brands.
Our favorite shows produced by their team:
Cineplex’s podcast: Hello Movies
About the Podcast: Are you a movie lover? If that’s a yes, Cineplex’s Hello Movies is for you. The gist of the podcast is to get you closer to the films coming out on the big screen. The host, Natasha Gargiulo, will sit down with guests to discuss ideas and insights into the top movies that are in theatres right now.
Saje Natural Wellness’ podcast: Well Now
About the Podcast: Powered by Saje Natural Wellness, Well Now is uncovering the difference between your basic health and fully empowered, personal wellness. The podcast merges the world of traditional doctors, alternative therapists, and real people to create a dialogue that gives you a holistic understanding of healing and being well.
Vancity’s podcast: Good Money
About the Podcast: COVID-19 has touched our lives in so many different ways. For many, it has been financial. Good Money, produced by Vancity, is here to give you the practical answers to your questions and make the discussion around your finances more relevant to the world right now.
4. Lower Street
About the Agency: Lower Street works with companies of all sizes across a variety of different verticals, developing shows that are unique to each company’s audience. Their focus is on quality vs quantity, and they prefer to work on a small number of podcasts so that they can make the best possible content.
Our favorite shows produced by their team:
HPE's podcast: Technology Untangled
About the Podcast: We're constantly witnessing so many incredible innovations coming to life but we're left with the question - what's really going to impact our future? Technology Untangled, powered by HPE, is answering just that. Through stories, interviews, and analyses, the podcast is untangling some of the greatest innovations to date.
Stanford Business School's podcast: Grit & Growth
About the Podcast: Grit & Growth, produced by Stanford Business School, is introducing you to entrepreneurs all over Africa and South Asia to hear their stories of trial and triumph. By listening to the podcast, you'll be gaining insights and expertise from leading business experts as well as the faculty at Stanford University.
5. The Podglomerate
About the Agency: The Podglomerate is an award-winning podcast services firm that specializes in production, marketing, and monetization of outstanding content. Founded in 2017, the company has grown to represent more than 70 podcasts.
Our favorite shows produced by their team:
Original Series: Missing Pages
Missing Pages is an investigative podcast hosted by world-renowned literary critic and publishing insider, Bethanne Patrick. This podcast is a creative look into the literary world and what’s happening as celebrities and influencers publishing books with ghostwriters is on the rise.
Original Series: Podcast Perspectives
Podcast Perspectives is helping you understand the ever-changing podcast industry. Hosted by the founder and CEO of The Podglomerate, Jeff Umbro, the series is geared towards leaders in the podcast space looking to keep up to date with the latest insights and news.
6. Fame
About the Agency: Fame focuses on B2B brand podcasts, helping you to make your podcast famous within a specific niche. Fame works with you to drive revenue and growth within the B2B audio world.
Our favorite show produced by their team:
Fresh Consulting’s podcast: The Future Of
About the Podcast: Created by Fresh Consulting, The Future Of sits down with visionaries to have conversations around the future with experts from different industries, markets, and technology verticals.
7. Podfly
About the Agency: Based out of Montreal, Podfly creates podcasts with individuals, educational institutions, and Fortune 500 companies. They work directly with organizations on messaging, targeting the right audience, alongside helping with the creative process for shows.
Our favorite shows produced by their team:
Nasdaq's podcast: World Reimagined
About the Podcast: As we watch the world change before our eyes, having content to make sense of it all can be incredibly helpful. In World Reimagined, powered by Nasdaq, listeners explore what it takes to lead through times of change and crises.
The American Kennel Club's podcast: Down & Back
About the Podcast: Down & Back, produced by The American Kennel Club is telling the tales of breeds, dogs, and the dog-loving humans that have shaped America. The podcast is diving into history, telling powerful stories, and bringing forward archival footage, all for the goal of bringing the sport of dogs to life.
8. Content Allies
About the Agency: Content Allies specialize in supporting B2B companies through their podcasting journey. Their mission is to build relationships that drive revenue through podcast networking.
Our favorite show produced by their team:
Sagemark’s podcast: Talent Acquisition Leaders
About the Podcast: Talent Acquisition Leaders, powered by Sagemark, interviews top leaders in talent acquisition to discuss the challenges and best practices around finding the right talent. They also peer into what the future of talent acquisition might look like.
9. Motion Agency
About the Agency: Motion Agency sets an impressive pace, working hard to help B2B companies launch their podcasts...all within 21 days or less. Their focus is to work with in-house teams to create quality content and develop new industry relationships.
Our favorite show produced by their team:
Motion Agency’s podcast: Recorded Content
About the Podcast: Recorded Content is for all those scrappy marketing teams out there that want to launch a successful B2B podcast. Each episode teaches you how to overcome some of the challenges around bringing a podcast to life.
10. Q'd Up
About the Agency: With over 50 years of combined experience, Q'd Up is an award-winning production house. The company believes that podcasting is an art form and places focus on doing it justice. They want to help their clients tell inspiring and engaging stories through audio.
Our favorite shows produced by their team
Senscient's podcast: Ascending Change (first released as Survive & Thrive, Concinnity's podcast)
About the Podcast: Hosted by Jennifer Ayres, Ascending Change is helping leaders create meaningful and sustainable change. With over 20 years of experience leading large-scale global transformation programs for Fortune 500 companies, Jennifer highlights ideas, learnings, and stories about organizational and personal transformation.
Yelp's podcast: Happy Mouth
About the Podcast: The Happy Mouth podcast is hosted by acclaimed restaurateur, Philip Camino and star chef, Nyesha Arrington. Created in partnership with Yelp and Q'd Up, the podcast is giving you daily news about the hospitality industry.
11. Evergreen Podcasts
About the Agency: Evergreen Podcasts are storytellers who bring diverse programming to the table with a focus on uniting audiences. They have a dazzling range of clients under their belt, from founders and philosophers to jazz musicians, artists, and designers.
Our favorite shows produced by their team:
Evergreen’s podcast: Pop Culture Confidential
About the Podcast: Pop Culture Confidential is sitting down with today’s innovators, entertainers, and newsmakers to discuss the latest in pop culture.
Evergreen’s podcast: Press Box Access
About the Podcast: Any sports fans out there? Press Box Access, hosted by Todd Jones and other sportswriters, discusses their relationship with the greatest athletes and some of the first-hand experiences that they had with the biggest sports moments in the past 50 years.
Evergreen’s podcast: Big Audacious Idea
About the Podcast: We all have these big questions that we don’t always get the answers to. But the Big Audacious Idea is here to help. The podcast is for listeners who think boldly and beyond conventional perception. You’ll hear from some of the most provocative thinkers to explore the questions we all have about life.
12. Podcast.co
About the Agency: Podcast.co offers almost everything you could possibly need for a podcast, from hosting, distribution, and marketing services to a full production house including concept, production, and editing. This one-stop shop is a dream come true for aspiring podcasters everywhere, whether you’re a complete newbie, budding aficionado, or seasoned veteran.
Our favorite show produced by their team:
Good for A Girl
About the Podcast: Good for A Girl is a podcast that dives into the realities and challenges of being a woman in the music industry, specifically looking at the male-dominated metal industry. Host, Courtney LaPlante, sits down with women in music and discusses how gender inequalities influenced their paths and forced them to make difficult career decisions.
13. Kast Media
About the Agency: The masterminds behind an ever-growing list of hit podcasts, Kast Media’s goal is to leverage podcasting as a medium to amplify conversations and align content creators with advertisers. From murder, crime, and the paranormal to comedy, relationships, and the entertainment industry, this multi-channel podcast network offers a true cornucopia of content. There is most definitely a Kast Media show out there for every taste and sensibility!
Our favorite show produced by their team:
The Sarah Silverman podcast
About the Podcast: Sarah Silverman sits down and talks all things big and small. The podcast launched with Kast Media in 2020 and moved to Lemonada Media in 2023. It covers every topic imaginable, making it a relatable podcast for everyone out there.
14. Vocal Fry Studios
About the Agency: As a female-dominated, Toronto-based podcasting agency, Vocal Fry is everything we love to stand behind. Between working with brands and companies to make original audio content and actively coaching the next generation of podcasters, it seems like there’s nothing this small powerhouse company can’t do!
Our favorite show produced by their team:
Indigo’s podcast: Well Said
About the Podcast: Well Said is giving you ideas and inspiration on how to live a better life on the inside and outside. Each episode hosts a meaningful conversation around our well-being and leaves you with takeaways on how you can implement the discussions had into your own life.
15. Radiotopia
About the Agency: Co-founded by the host of the hit show 99% Invisible, Roman Mars and PRX, Radiotopia is a podcast collective designed to give producers complete artistic control over their own work. With a rapidly growing collection of fantastic podcasts under their belt, the network continues to grow more popular every year, with upwards of 19 million downloads per month.
Our favorite show produced by their team:
Criminal
About the Podcast: Your new go-to crime podcast, Criminal is telling stories of those who have either done wrong, been wronged, or are maybe caught somewhere in the middle. Criminal was part of Radiotopia until 2022, when it joined Vox Media. If you’re a true-crime podcast lover, we highly recommend this series.
16. Crooked Media
About the Agency: Wherever you sit on the political spectrum, you have to admire Crooked Media for their dedication to prompting honest conversation about the intersection between politics and culture in America. Founded by former Obama staffers, this media company with an unashamed liberal bias is on a mission to inform, entertain, and inspire activism.
Our favorite show produced by their team:
Pod Save America
About the Podcast: Pod Save America is sitting down with four former aides to President Obama as they chat with politicians, journalists, activists, and more. The podcast is focused on having a no b******t conversation about politics by cutting through all the noise and figuring out what really matters.
17. LWC Studios
About the Agency: Founded in 2017 by Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, an American journalist and WOC, this award-winning podcast production company is dedicated to giving a voice to individuals and POC. Nominated in 2020 for a Peabody Award, Lantigua Williams & CO uses unique audio and video experiences to help break down barriers and tell the stories of minority communities, and remains an inspiration for the entire podcasting industry.
Our favorite show produced by their team:
Ascend at Aspen Institute's podcast: 1 in 5
About the Podcast: Powered by Ascend at Aspen Institute, 1 in 5 is a podcast that is diving into the lives of college students who are pursuing their education while also raising children. It's a narrative documentary that explores student parents balancing education, parenting, working, as well as leading their families and communities.
18. Sweet Fish Media
About the Agency: Sweet Fish Media is a full-service podcast production company that specializes in podcasts for B2B brands. As they say on their website: “You’re busier than a one legged man at a butt kickin’ contest. You don’t have time to build the strategy, find your guests, edit audio, repurpose content, and the 17 other things it takes to actually drive revenue with your podcast. You can try herding cats and hire 9 different freelancers. Or you can hire us.” If that’s not a creative call out to brands, we don’t know what is!
Our favorite shows produced by their team:
Gorilla 76’s podcast: The Manufacturing Executive
About the Podcast: The Manufacturing Executive is produced by Gorilla 76 and, since 2025, is part of the MakingChips Network. Its goal is exploring the strategies and experiences that are driving mid-sized manufacturers forward. Throughout the podcast you’ll hear from leaders in manufacturing that discuss the stories, strategies, and struggles that got them to where they are today.
Sweet Fish Media’s podcast: B2B Growth
About the Podcast: All about B2B, B2B Growth is here to help sales and marketing professionals learn how to better engage their target accounts while ultimately, becoming more successful sellers.
