Quick Answer 
How many people listen to Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2025?
The Joe Rogan Experience podcast is listened to by over 16 million people every month.
Joe Rogan is an American comedian, presenter, and commentator. Since 2009 he has broadcast The Joe Rogan Experience on YouTube.
Today, millions of people listen to this podcast, begging the question of exactly how many people listen to Joe Rogan’s podcast?
The Launch Of Joe Rogan’s Podcast
Joe Rogan’s podcast actually started in 2003.
This is when Brian Redban was hired by Rogan to produce and edit videos that could be included on Rogan’s website.
Redban effectively followed Rogan everywhere.
His following quickly grew and it became clear that the fans wanted more. The logical way to give people more was to start live filming.
The two of them set up live streams on various platforms, including justin.tv and they started broadcasting, learning the techniques as they went.
In an effort to keep it fresh the broadcast moved to his house, allowing Rogan to issue a weekly live episode of him talking.
As they figured out the processes they increased the broadcasts to two a week.
The majority of these early broadcasts were simply Rogan having long conversations with friends about a variety of topics.
At this stage the broadcast had moved to Ustream and the first guest appeared on the channel in January 2010, the third episode.
That same year the podcast was officially named The Joe Rogan Experience.
His growing popularity meant that sponsorship became an option and many of the conversations and ideologies from the podcast were used in Rogan’s stand-up comedy routine.
Moving To YouTube
YouTube started up in 2005 but it wasn’t until 2009/2010 that it started to really gain popularity.
But Rogan didn’t start uploading to YouTube until 2013.
By that point he had a growing following and the uploaded content was regularly being viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.
This popularity led Rogan to increase the number of podcasts he was doing and he would film for 6-7 hours at a time.
Obviously, this was difficult for Redban to stay on top of. That’s why in 2013 Jamie Vernon joined the team as a second producer.
Ultimately, Vernon took over the producing role.
The increase in the number of podcasts and duration led to an increase in followers.
Now each of Rogan’s podcasts started to have over a million viewers. A figure that continues to grow;
Switching To Spotify
Thanks to the success of the podcast, Joe Rogan was able to negotiate a deal with Spotify.
In return for exclusive content, Rogan earned approximately $200 million.
The last episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience on YourTube were released in December 2020.
Since then, the show has only been broadcast on Spotify.
Part of the deal was that Rogan would continue with the existing format of the podcast, denying Spotify any creative influence.
It was a good move for Spotify, the day after the announcement their shares increased in value by 7%.
Filming Location
Initially, the podcast was filmed at Joe Rogan’s house.
But, as the success of the show grew, Rogan was able to fund a private studio.
He purchased one in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles in November 2012 and the podcast was filmed there until 2020 when he relocated to Texas.
Naturally, he now has a permanent studio there instead.
Guests & Controversy
It’s virtually impossible to do a podcast for this many years with such a large following and not court controversy occasionally.
One particularly notable episode was number 1,509 when Rogan had Abigail Shrier as his guest.
Their discussion included an array of potentially transphobic topics and concerns were raised by Spotify employees with their management.
Kanye West was also a guest on the show in 2020.
At the time he was already encouraging controversy due to his actions in daily life.
His appearance on the podcast included an explanation of why he was running for president of the United States.
(Put simply, he believes his calling is to be the leader of the free world).
Rogan’s personal views often don’t appear to be backed by science.
This encouraged 270 healthcare professionals to write an open letter to Spotify.
They called Rogan a public menace and encouraged Spotify to adopt a counter-misinformation policy.
The letter gained many more signatures after it was made public.
Interestingly, this letter was triggered by Rogan’s podcast with Robert W. Malone where it was said that young healthy people didn’t need a COVID vaccination.
That’s despite the fact that Rogan insisted every guest undertake a COVID test before appearing on the show.
Rogan has also been criticized for inspiring the ‘storm Area 51’ internet meme.
It happened just after he had Bob Lazar on his show, a well-known conspiracy theorist.
Of course, it’s impossible to say for certain it was inspired by him.
How Many People Listen To Joe Rogan’s Podcast?
Thanks to its launch on YouTube and a lot of hard work, the Joe Rogan Experience podcast was being listened to by over 11 million people at the beginning of 2015.
By the end of the year, this number had grown to 16 million.
With these figures in mind, it’s not surprising that the podcast is a major influence in political and cultural circles.
It was listed as an ‘unlikely political influencer’ in 2020 by the New York Times.
In fact, Bernie Sanders used a clip from the Joe Rogan Experience where he said he would probably vote for Bernie.
It gave Sanders a huge amount of free publicity.
Spotify doesn’t release figures regarding viewings. But, estimates suggest that he gets 11 million streams per video.
What is known is that he has 14.2 million subscribers on YouTube and a total view count of 2.2 billion.
Whichever way you look at it, The Joe Rogan Experience is extremely popular and lucrative for its host.
