The series will be available worldwide to listeners wherever they get their podcasts, with “fully visualized episodes” available on the Netflix Is A Joke YouTube channel.
The first episode is available today (May 28).
Mumbrella adds Nova Entertainment will continue to represent the 7am podcast for advertising sales.
Mel Robbins No 1, mushroom cook trial piques interest – Triton Australian Podcast Ranker May 2025
If you want to know just how much the trial of Erin Patterson has kept audiences enthralled, Erin who is accused of murdering three people with a further attempted murder charge over a dish of beef Wellington that included death cap mushrooms she served at a lunch she hosted at her Leongatha home in 2023, you need look no further than the May Triton Australian Podcast Ranker. Three different trial podcasts, from the ABC, Nine and News Corp, were in the top 50 with nearly 1.2 million monthly listeners and 4.5 million downloads between them.
This month saw Mel Robbins still No 1 as she has been all this year, Hamish and Andy were second and right behind in monthly downloads, ABC News Top Stories third and Mamamia Out Loud fourth like last month. Fifth was the ABC’s trial podcast Mushroom Case Daily, with 30 episodes and 3.3 million downloads, more than any other podcast on the ranker. This podcast featuring court reporter Kristian Silva and producer Stephen Stockwell has been running since March 2024 but this month, with all the extraordinary information revealed in the trial, it was up 136 places.
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625,000 listeners tune into Mushroom Case Daily
More than 625,000 people listened to the ABC’s Mushroom Case Daily podcast in May according to the Triton Australian Podcast Ranker released today.
The result landed the podcast at number 5 in the top 200, up 136 places from April.
The podcast has been following the trial of Erin Patterson as it happens in a court in regional Victoria. Court reporter Kristian Silva, producer Stephen Stockwell and journalist Rachael Brown have been keeping audiences up to date with the trial with daily episodes covering the highlights from court and breaking down the legal process along the way.
Since it began producing daily episodes, Mushroom Case Daily has become the ABC’s most successful podcast in a decade. It is the #1 podcast on Apple Australia’s podcast chart, is #2 on Spotify’s Trending chart, and has broken into the Spotify Top 20 - a first for an ABC podcast. This week, it also made Apple’s top 30 podcasts chart in the UK.
Mushroom Case Daily has also been featured on The Project, Mamamia and The Washington Post.
“This case is captivating Australia and the world and the ABC has endeavoured to create a responsible and honest portrait of the trial as it unfolds” said ABC Head of Audio on Demand, Jessica Radburn.
“Listeners are incredibly engaged with the show, with our team receiving hundreds of emails daily. I’m very proud that our team has been able to respond to this audience need and bring listeners as close to the court experience as possible.”
For the first time since joining the ranker, the ABC had 4 podcasts feature in the top 10 in May. Mushroom Case Daily joined ABC News Tops Stories which maintained its number 3 spot with ABC News Daily also holding their position at number 8 and Conversations climbing one rank to number 10.
The ABC had 3.2 million listeners across our podcast slate last month, our highest ever result and an increase of 410,000 listeners month-on-month.
The ABC retained our number 4 publisher spot and had more podcasts in the top 200 than any other publisher with 30 ABC titles making the list in May.
The full Triton Australian Podcast Ranker can be found here.
Audiences can enjoy every episode of Mushroom Case Daily for free and ad free on ABC listen.