Across 11 shows and 16,481 episodes, audience and engagement moved together over 90 days — and three breakout stars reached audiences many times larger than their own following.
The headline isn't any single show — it's that the whole network is moving in the same direction at once. Reach outran the follower base by 74%, and short-form video did the heavy lifting.
Erin Molan, Lara Trump, and Joe Pags each reached audiences far beyond their own following — and beyond the network's 174% average. All three cleared 235%, meaning every existing follower was matched by roughly 1.4 additional people reached.
What links them isn't size — it's posting cadence and a short-form-first habit. They publish heavily to Reels, Shorts, and X, and the views compounded.
Total video views + audio downloads in-period as a share of each show's starting follower base. Seven of eleven shows beat 100% — they out-reached their own audience. The bottom four are the watch list.
Note Trish Regan: 241% reach on a staggering 155.4M views, the network's video volume leader by a wide margin.
Short-form social — YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, and TikTok — drove 159M views, over half of all network video views. X clips reached the fewest posts but the highest per-clip reach.
The download leaderboard inverts the video one. Scott Jennings alone is 27.2% of the network's 2.44M downloads, with O'Connor, Marlow, Hammer, and Elder rounding out a download-heavy top five.
The breakout trio that dominates video sits near the bottom on audio — they are video-native shows. Todd Starnes is video-first with zero downloads in-period. The lesson: growth and monetization currently live on different rails, and the network needs both.
Comparing the two most recent Sprout reporting windows, impressions and audience growth both accelerated into the back half of the quarter — even as the network published a higher post volume.
Sources: Sprout Profile Performance, Jan 12 – Mar 16 and Mar 16 – May 21, 2026. Net audience growth rose from +168K to +238K; impressions from 137.5M to 149.5M.
The composite is an equal-weighted blend of downloads, audience-growth %, and video views (0–100). It rewards balance, not a single spike.
Scott Jennings (66.7) and Trish Regan (65.8) lead because they pair scale on one rail with real strength on another. The breakout trio scores mid-pack here precisely because their strength is concentrated in video — a signal of where to add support next.
Every show, ranked by audience reach. Blue rows are the breakout trio; amber reach figures mark the four shows trailing the network.
| # | Show | Reach | Views + DL | Downloads | Video Views | Composite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Lara Trump · The Right View | 260.9% | 9.0M | 51,265 | 9.0M | 34.6 |
| 02 | Joe Pags · Unshaken & Unafraid | 257.9% | 21.2M | 27,569 | 21.1M | 35.8 |
| 03 | Larry O'Connor · LARRY | 253.1% | 14.7M | 440,401 | 14.2M | 51.0 |
| 04 | Trish Regan · The Trish Regan Show | 241.3% | 155.4M | 24,545 | 155.3M | 65.8 |
| 05 | Erin Molan · The Erin Molan Show | 235.9% | 11.4M | 172,852 | 11.2M | 44.4 |
| 06 | Scott Jennings · The Scott Jennings Podcast | 197.6% | 27.6M | 665,225 | 27.0M | 66.7 |
| 07 | Alex Marlow · The Alex Marlow Show | 111.0% | 2.8M | 410,013 | 2.4M | 34.3 |
| 08 | Josh Hammer · The Josh Hammer Show | 28.6% | 0.64M | 369,089 | 269,358 | 19.8 |
| 09 | New World Old Soul · Podcast | 22.1% | 0.67M | 9,857 | 660,937 | 3.0 |
| 10 | Larry Elder · The Larry Elder Show | 21.5% | 0.40M | 273,736 | 124,450 | 14.7 |
| 11 | Todd Starnes · The Todd Starnes Show | 11.3% | 3.6M | 0 | 3.6M | 1.2 |
Source: SPN 90-Day Growth Report, Mar 6 – Jun 4, 2026. Reach = (video views + audio downloads) ÷ starting follower base.
Erin, Lara & Joe Pags are reaching ~1.4× the network's audience-reach rate. Give them more production support and ad inventory — they convert investment into reach faster than anyone.
Short-form social drove 159M views. The fastest growers are the ones publishing most to Reels, Shorts & X. Standardize a short-form-first publishing cadence network-wide.
Four shows trail the network on audience reach. A short-form video playbook — modeled on the trio — is the clearest path to reigniting them without rebuilding from scratch.