International podcasts

US Podcast Chart

1) This American life, Chicago Public Radio (Personal Journals)
2) Stuff you should know,  HowStuffWorks.com (TV, Film Support)
3) Best of You Tube, Plankton Production (Comedy)
4) NPR: Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio (Games & Hobbies)
5) MSNBC Countdown, MSNBC (News & Politics)
6) NPR: Fresh Air Podcast, NPR (Society & Culture)
7) Comedy Central: Stand-up, Comedy Central (Comedy)
8) American Idol on iTunes, Apple Inc (Music)
9) Oprah’s Spirit Channel, Oprah Winfrey  (Spirituality)
10) NPR: Car Talk Podcast, Tom & Ray Mahliozzi (Automotive)

Canadian Podcast Chart

1) Stuff you should know,  HowStuffWorks.com (TV, Film Support)
2) Best of You Tube, Plankton Production (Comedy)
3) Oprah’s Spirit Channel, Oprah Winfrey  (Spirituality)
4) Oprah’s Soul Series Webcast,  Oprah Winfrey  (Spirituality)
5) CBC Radio: Vinyl Cafe Stories, CBC Radio (Arts)
6) A New Earh After Show, Elizabeth Lesser (Spirituality)
7) CBC's The Hour, The Hour Video Podcast (Music)
8) Documentaries, BBC World Service (News & Politics)
9) Comedy Central: Stand-up, Comedy Central, (Comedy)
10) The Ricky Gervais Podcast, Ricky Gervais (Comedy)

Australian Podcast Chart

1) Hamish & Andy, Hamish & Andy (Comedy)
2) Flight of the Conchords, HBO (Comedy)
3) Summer Heights High, ABC TV (Category TV & Film)
4) Good News Week, Network Ten (Comedy)
5) Best of You Tube, Plankton Production (Comedy)
6) Sterphen Fry’s Podgrams, Stephen Fry (Comedy)
7) The Ricky Gervais Podcast, Ricky Gervais (Comedy)
8) Happy Tree Friends, Mondo Media Video (Comedy)
9) TripleJ: New Music Podcast, Triple J (Music) 
10) ABC's: The war on everything, Saltzer & Goodman (Comedy)

UK Podcast Chart

1) Russell Brand, BBC Radio 2 (Comedy)
2) Sterphen Fry’s Podgrams, Stephen Fry (Comedy)
3) Beginning Guitar 101, iVideoSongs.com (Podcasting)
4) The Ricky Gervais Podcast, Ricky Gervais (Comedy)
5) Stuff you should know,  HowStuffWorks.com (TV, Film Support)
6) Friday Night Comedy, BBC Radio 4 (Comedy)
7) Best of You Tube, Plankton Production (Comedy)
8) Jonathan Ross, BBC Radio 2 (Comedy)
9) The Anderson Tapes, The Telegraph (Comedy)

Some observations:

• Discovering new international podcasts is tricky and browsing between territories on iTunes is cumbersome. If you know what you're looking for iTunes search works across multiple territories. However, iTunes does a surprisingly bad job of curating for personal tastes and recommendation. Considering, Apple has information on every podcast I've ever downloaded or subscribed to the lack of personalisation is surprising and probably a result of iTunes being a small part of a giant organisation.
• Over half of the most popular podcasts in English fall into the comedy category. With the exception of the Best of You Tube they're all produced by traditional media companies or established talent.
• Plankton Production's Best of You Tube is the only podcast to appear in the top ten in all four English speaking territories. Stuff You Should Know from How Stuff Works appears in the US, UK and Canada but not in Australia.
• The US podcast chart has the least number of international entries. The Best of YouTube, produced in Spain, is the only podcast from outside of the US. Unsurprisingly, Canada has the largest number of international podcasts with only two of the ten produced locally.
• Well established talent like Ricky and Stephen Fry seem better able to market their content to an international audience. Gervasis appears in Canada, Australia and the UK.

Comments

[Jaine]

Oprah's 4 interviews with Jill Bolte Taylor were the first that Oprah did after Eckhart Tolle and they take everything Tolle talks about to another level. Oprah's copy of Jill's book, MY STROKE OF INSIGHT, was dog-eared and all marked up and kept reading from it the way she read from A New Earth and recommended it highly.

Oprah's recommendation was enough for me. I read My Stroke of Insight and I loved it too. This story is as inspiring as The Last Lecture or Tuesdays with Morrie - and even better, it has a Happy Ending!

I bought the book on Amazon because they have it for 40% off retail and they also had an amazing interview with Dr Taylor that I haven't seen anywhere else - Here is the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/My-Stroke-Insight-Scientists-Personal/dp/0670020745/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211471755&sr=1-2

[Curtis]

I read "My Stroke of Insight" in one sitting - I couldn't put it down. I laughed. I cried. It was a fantastic book (I heard it's a NYTimes Bestseller and I can see why!), but I also think it will be the start of a new, transformative Movement! No one wants to have a stroke as Jill Bolte Taylor did, but her experience can teach us all how to live better lives. Her TED.com speech was one of the most incredibly moving, stimulating, wonderful videos I've ever seen. Her Oprah Soul Series interviews were fascinating. They should make a movie of her life so everyone sees it. This is the Real Deal and gives me hope for humanity.

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