Lesson #3
How to track your podcast rankings?
In the first two lessons, you discovered what rankings are, how they work, and which signals Apple Podcasts and Spotify use to determine a podcast's position in their charts. You now know what these charts actually measure... and what they don't.
January 19, 2026 • About 8 min. read
In this third lesson, we’re moving on to the next step: how to effectively track your rankings.
While charts are an essential driver for visibility, they move very quickly, vary from country to country, and react directly to your actions (such as episode releases, high-profile guests, marketing efforts, or campaigns). Monitoring them regularly allows you to understand your podcast’s momentum, identify what’s working, and spot growth opportunities.
The challenge lies in the sheer scale of the ranking ecosystem. Apple Podcasts and Spotify generate tens of thousands of charts across various platforms, categories, sub-categories, and countries. Without a dedicated tool, getting a clear and comprehensive overview is incredibly difficult.
In this lesson, you will discover:
- Why tracking your rankings is essential
- How to explore every available chart in just a few clicks
- How to accurately track your own podcast’s position
Ready to move from theory to practice? Let’s dive in! 🚀
Explore all podcast charts in one place
Ausha Charts Online is the go-to solution for tracking top podcast rankings by country, category, and subcategory in real time across Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Why Tracking Your Rankings Is Essential
Monitoring your chart positions isn’t just about an ego boost or checking a simple popularity score. It’s a strategic management tool. Charts provide valuable insights into your podcast’s reach, its momentum, and how your day-to-day actions directly impact your visibility.
Understand Your Visibility Across Every Platform
Rankings provide a detailed snapshot of how your podcast is perceived and consumed across different listening platforms and in every country where it’s available. They allow you to see exactly where your show is gaining traction, where it’s plateauing, and where it hasn’t broken through yet.
A podcast never grows at the same rate across all platforms. The Charts help you visualize:
- Platforms where your podcast is gaining real traction, thanks to standout episodes, strong subscription momentum, or a well-defined niche.
- Platforms where growth is slower, which may signal a need to optimize your metadata, titles, categories, or publishing frequency.
- Platforms or countries where you are completely absent, a useful indicator to boost your marketing, refine your PSO, or consider targeted collaborations.
This comprehensive view of platform rankings is essential for fine-tuning your Podcast Marketing strategy. Appearing in the charts is never a fluke; it is the direct result of the traction you build through your own efforts. 🚀
To get there, several key drivers come into play:
- Topic selection
- Optimizing your Podcast Search Optimization (PSO) strategy
- The quality of your titles and descriptions
- Promotion and communication around your episodes
- Consistency, collaborations, and cross-promotion
Every single action can generate a spike in interest—which, in turn, can help you climb the rankings.
The Charts then become a true visibility dashboard, broken down by platform and by country. They show you how your strategy is translating into real-world results, where it’s paying off, and where you should double down to maximize your presence in the Top lists.
Identify Countries, Platforms, and Categories Where You Can Grow
Your podcast can gain visibility in markets you might not expect: Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, and beyond. Without regular tracking, these weak signals (or early indicators) often go unnoticed, even though they frequently represent real growth opportunities.
Identifying the countries, platforms, or categories where your podcast is naturally gaining ground allows you to spot less competitive environments, more receptive markets, or high-potential topics.
This is an excellent way to refine your strategy and focus your efforts where the potential for growth is strongest.
Track your rankings at a glance with Ausha Charts In-App
See exactly where your show and your competitors rank on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, with filters by show, country, category, and subcategory.
Spot Your “Chart Neighbors”… and Seize the Best Collaboration Opportunities
The Charts allow you to identify the podcasts operating in the same environment as yours: those rising alongside your show, those occupying your category, or those appearing just above or below you in the Top lists.
These “chart neighbors” are invaluable. They provide a concrete view of your real competition within your niche, showing which formats are working, what publishing schedules are being used, and which editorial angles are successfully attracting an audience.
But more importantly, they are your best potential partners. Podcasts that share your natural audience are often the most relevant for cross-promotions, guest swaps, or editorial collaborations.
By tracking your rankings regularly, you can more easily identify these shows, understand their momentum, and seize the right opportunities at the right time.
How to Explore All Rankings in Just a Few Clicks
As we discussed in Lesson #1, podcast rankings are counted in the tens of thousands: across platforms, categories, sub-categories, and countries—not to mention the constant, real-time updates. In practice, it is impossible to manually track all this data or get a complete view of your podcast’s visibility within its competitive environment.
Without a dedicated tool, you only see a fraction of the big picture: you are limited to the rankings visible from your own local store at a specific moment, with no way to explore other markets or track changes over time.
This is why a single, centralized, and reliable point of analysis is indispensable for analyzing your positions, spotting growth signals, and understanding exactly where and how your podcast is gaining visibility.
Rankings primarily measure recent activity surrounding a show or an episode. They reward traction. Because an episode or podcast that generates a spike in interest can climb very quickly—even if its overall audience size is limited—having a tool to catch these moments is crucial.
Ausha Charts Online: The Free Tool to Explore All Rankings
For years, Chartable was the industry standard for tracking Apple Podcasts and Spotify rankings. Its sudden closure in 2024 left many podcasters, studios, and agencies without an easy way to monitor their chart positions. Overnight, it became significantly harder to track a podcast’s growth on a country-by-country or category-by-category basis.
To fill this void, we developed Ausha Charts Online. This tool was built to carry on Chartable’s legacy while being entirely free, requiring no account or registration, offering unlimited country access, and being available to all podcasters, regardless of their hosting provider.
The goal is simple: to provide clear, fast, and reliable access to every Apple Podcasts and Spotify ranking across the globe.
Explore all podcast charts in one place
Ausha Charts Online is the go-to solution for tracking top podcast rankings by country, category, and subcategory in real time across Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Ausha Charts Online allows you to explore:
- All countries (up to 175, depending on the platform).
- Rankings for the two major players: Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
- All categories and sub-categories.
- Rankings by content type (Top Episodes and Top Shows).
In short: it gives you a global view of the ranking ecosystem in one click, something that would be impossible to reconstruct manually.
While other tools exist on the market (such as Podcharts, Podstatus, MowPod, Podgagement, or Podrank), none offer access as comprehensive and entirely free as Ausha Charts Online.
Ausha Charts in-App: The tool for tracking your own podcast’s ranking positions
While Ausha Charts Online allows you to explore the entire Apple Podcasts and Spotify ranking ecosystem (by country, platform, category, show, or episode), Ausha Charts in-App serves a different purpose: providing detailed, personalized tracking centered specifically on your podcast.
Available for free to all creators (regardless of their hosting provider), Ausha Charts in-App allows you to:
- Visualize your own rankings on Apple Podcasts and Spotify based on specific Country Stores, categories, and sub-categories.
- Track your full ranking history to understand the long-term impact of a specific episode, a high-profile guest, or a marketing campaign.
- Compare your podcast to others in your category to benchmark your progress.
- Centralize all your Apple Podcasts ratings in a single, convenient dashboard.
- Receive email alerts for significant changes, such as a new ranking entry or a new review.
Track your rankings at a glance with Ausha Charts In-App
See exactly where your show and your competitors rank on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, with filters by show, country, category, and subcategory.
In summary, the two tools are complementary:
- Ausha Charts Online offers a macro view :it covers all rankings, countries, and categories, helping you understand the global ecosystem and spot broader market trends. /li>
- Ausha Charts in-App provides a micro view : it offers precise tracking of your specific podcast, including its evolution over time, exact positions, and those of your direct competitors.
By combining both tools, you gain a comprehensive and actionable understanding of your visibility on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Congratulations! 👏
You’ve just completed Lesson #3 of this guide on tracking podcast rankings.
Here are the key takeaways:
- Tracking your rankings isn’t a vanity metric It’s a strategic tool to understand your podcast’s actual visibility, platform by platform and country by country.
- Rankingsallow you to measure the direct impact of your actions: : episode releases, high-profile guests, social media campaigns, teasers, press coverage, or consistency. Changes can often be seen within hours.
- They reveal untapped potential, highlighting markets, categories, and platforms where your podcast is naturally growing or where there is room for expansion.
- Your “chart neighbors” in the Tops are an excellent way to identify your real competitors but also your best allies for collaborations or cross-promotions.
- Ausha Charts Online gives you a macro view of the ecosystem: all rankings, all countries, and all categories—for free and without an account.
- Ausha Charts in-App provides a micro view focused on your podcast: detailed history, precise position tracking, category benchmarking, email alerts, and Apple Podcasts ratings—accessible for free, regardless of your host.
- Using both tools together allows you to understand both the global playing field and your exact position within that landscape.
Now that you know why, where, and how to track your positions, let’s move to the next step (the final lesson of this guide): interpreting ranking movements and making concrete decisions to grow your podcast in the Charts. 🚀
Track your rankings at a glance with Ausha Charts In-App
See exactly where your show and your competitors rank on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, with filters by show, country, category, and subcategory.
