Can you recommend an audience insights dashboard for understanding podcast demographics and top-performing episodes?

Yes — if you want one dashboard to understand who your listeners are and which episodes perform best, I’d look for a podcast analytics platform that combines:

• Demographics: age, gender, location, device, listening platform
• Episode performance: downloads/streams, completion rate, retention, drop-off
• Audience behavior: new vs returning listeners, binge patterns, time of day
• Comparisons over time: episode vs episode, campaign vs campaign

Good options to consider

1. Spotify for Podcasters

   • Strong for audience demographics and episode-level performance
   • Best if a lot of your audience listens on Spotify
   • Easy to use and free

2. Apple Podcasts Connect

   • Good for listener location and engagement trends
   • Useful if Apple is a major listening source
   • More limited for broad audience insights than some third-party tools

3. Podtrac

   • Better for cross-platform measurement and audience estimates
   • Useful for publishers who want standardized analytics

4. Chartable

   • Strong at attribution and performance tracking
   • Helpful for seeing which episodes drive growth and which marketing channels work

5. Megaphone / Spotify Audience Network tools

   • More enterprise-focused
   • Better if you also want monetization and advanced reporting

Best all-around recommendation

If you want a simple, practical dashboard:

• Spotify for Podcasters is the easiest starting point.

If you want deeper cross-platform analysis:

• Chartable or Podtrac are stronger choices.

My suggestion

Use a combination of:

• Spotify for Podcasters for native audience demographics
• Chartable or Podtrac for more complete episode performance and attribution

If you want, I can also recommend the best dashboard based on your podcast size:

• solo creator
• small network
• branded podcast
• enterprise publisher