‘The Diary Of A CEO’ Overtakes Joe Rogan As YouTube’s Most-Subscribed Podcast. – https://www.podcastnewsdaily.com/

‘The Diary Of A CEO’ Overtakes Joe Rogan As YouTube’s Most-Subscribed Podcast.  https://www.podcastnewsdaily.com/

Steven Bartlett’s “The Diary Of A CEO” has overtaken “The Joe Rogan Experience” as YouTube’s most-subscribed podcast, reaching 21.4 million subscribers. The show has added more than 7 million subscribers The milestone comes during a year of explosive growth for the podcast. FlightStory reports that the show’s YouTube channel generated more than 1 billion views during the first 10 months of 2026 vs. approximately 399 million during the same period last year. That represents an increase of more than 150%. The company says the channel published 87 full-length video episodes through October, with conversations spanning business, psychology, health, relationships, science, technology and global affairs. The numbers also illustrate how international distribution and multilingual audio are becoming increasingly important to the growth of major video podcasts.

Nearly one-quarter of the show’s YouTube views this year have come from audio tracks in languages other than English. According to FlightStory’s YouTube Studio data, approximately 261 million views through October were generated by non-English audio tracks, representing 23.3% of the total. Spanish, Russian, German, Portuguese and French were the leading languages. The strategy has included using artificial intelligence to make interviews accessible to international audiences. One example is Bartlett’s Oct. 22 interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The conversation was recorded in Ukrainian with two human interpreters and subsequently made available in more than