The highest viewed podcast of all time is an episode of the Saudi show Fnjan with Yasser Alhozaiemy, at 165,476,367 YouTube views on November 1, 2026. Guinness World Records lists it as the most viewed podcast episode on YouTube, and it has more than double the views of The Joe Rogan Experience #1169 with Elon Musk, the episode most lists still name.
The most viewed podcast episode on YouTube runs just over three hours, in Arabic, on how relationships work. Its title is كيف تنجح العلاقات مع ياسر الحزيمي. Guinness says over 74% of its views came from outside Saudi Arabia.
The most viewed podcast episodes on YouTube, read from each video on November 1, 2026, are led by a Saudi show, with American and Indian shows behind it. The Joe Rogan Experience has the most entries, and it doesn't have the top spot or the second.
| Rank | Episode | Show | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yasser Alhozaiemy on relationships | Fnjan | 165,476,367 |
| 2 | Katt Williams Unleashed | Club Shay Shay | 94,176,655 |
| 3 | #1169 Elon Musk | The Joe Rogan Experience | 69,310,486 |
| 4 | #1315 Bob Lazar & Jeremy Corbell | The Joe Rogan Experience | 66,847,760 |
| 5 | #2219 Donald Trump | The Joe Rogan Experience | 63,465,913 |
| 6 | Joe Rogan Gets HIGH & Flagrant | Flagrant | 44,369,489 |
| 7 | Aidh al-Qarni on solitude, fame and grief | Fnjan | 43,125,019 |
| 8 | #1368 Edward Snowden | The Joe Rogan Experience | 40,178,908 |
| 9 | FO343 Khan Sir | Figuring Out | 40,053,836 |
| 10 | #1070 Jordan Peterson | The Joe Rogan Experience | 39,960,119 |
Nothing lists every podcast in every language, so read the top two as settled and the rest as the best check available. Below about 45 million views, a show that wasn't checked could slot in. A 14-minute MrBeast video on Cristiano Ronaldo's channel has 70,442,602 views, and it stays off this list because it isn't an episode of a podcast by any fair test.
The Fnjan episode is so big partly because Fnjan was already huge. Guinness says the show launched in 2016 and has over 350 episodes averaging over a million views each. This one traveled further than the rest, with 21% of viewers using English subtitles. No public figure shows how many views came from paid promotion, for this video or any other on the list.
The list also shows how far podcasting has spread beyond English. India's Figuring Out with Raj Shamani has two entries near the top, and its episode with Major Rishabh reached 39,165,816 views within 52 days. Indonesia's Deddy Corbuzier Podcast has an episode at 37,814,557. Most English-language lists miss these shows entirely.
Joe Rogan is not the most viewed podcast by single episode, and hasn't been since 2024. Guinness says the Fnjan episode passed his Elon Musk interview, then at 68 million after five years, on the way to the record. Episode #1169 from 2018 is still his biggest at 69,310,486, and it is third on this list, behind a Club Shay Shay interview that most published lists leave out. It is also age-restricted, so YouTube won't let other sites embed it.
Guinness says 110 million because a record is a snapshot of the day it was checked. Its page reads: "The most viewed podcast episode on YouTube is on Fnjan Podcast with 110,789,073 views", dated August 20, 2024. The episode has gained 54,687,294 views since then, so that is the number older articles repeat. Spellings vary too, and Guinness uses Yasser Alhozaiemy and Abdulrahman Abumalih, with Thmanyah as the producer.
One rule change affects every count here. YouTube redefined its public view count on August 24, 2026, so a view now counts from the first frame. Counts from before and after that date aren't strictly the same measure.
The most viewed podcast channel has no official ranking, and podcast channel has no clean definition. Among a dozen well-known channels checked on November 1, 2026, Good Mythical Morning has the highest lifetime total. These totals include Shorts, clips and everything else on the channel, so treat them as scale, not as a podcast score.
| Channel | Total views | Show or note |
|---|---|---|
| Good Mythical Morning | 11,327,790,061 | A daily show, on YouTube's podcast chart |
| Deddy Corbuzier | 8,313,929,399 | Indonesia, mixed content |
| PowerfulJRE | 6,743,254,015 | The Joe Rogan Experience |
| Caleb Hammer | 4,816,624,548 | Financial Audit |
| Shawn Ryan Show | 3,312,588,922 | The Shawn Ryan Show |
Fnjan's own home, the Thmanyah channel, has 804,798,200 lifetime views, so one episode makes up about a fifth of them. For a single year, YouTube's own list had The Joe Rogan Experience first for US watch time in 2025, ahead of KILL TONY and Good Mythical Morning.
The most listened to podcast of all time is The Joe Rogan Experience on the evidence that exists, though that is a reasoned claim, not a measured one. Spotify and Apple publish no exact play counts, and download totals stay private to each show's host. Rogan has led Edison's US survey since 2019 and was Spotify's top podcast worldwide for a sixth straight year in 2025. The top 5 most listened to podcasts has the current order.
Other podcast records are thinner on the ground than you might expect. Guinness credits New Heights with the most concurrent views for a podcast on YouTube, 1.3 million for the Taylor Swift episode on August 13, 2025. A search of its site found no public record for most listened, most downloaded or most followed podcast.
Views measure a moment of attention, so the biggest video in history can come from a three-hour Arabic conversation about relationships. If you came here for SEO shows, the channels worth a subscription run at a far smaller and more useful scale.
Sources for this answer were checked on Nov 1, 2026.
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