Is the Bombcast THE top rating games show?

Whiskey Media's page on Giant Bomb says that the podcast has a listenership in excess of 100'000 individuals each week. Yo, that's a lot. I recall Garnett Lee once saying that 1UP Yours broke through the six figure barrier in either 2006 or 2007, but I don't think that level of people downloading on a weekly basis lasted that long, even for them. What we can draw from this, then, is that nothing will ever match the Bombcast in terms of ratings. Get me a Nielsen Rating for that shit.
 
Jesus H. Christ, how many emails do those guys get every week?

I have always wondered how many people listen to the bombcast, I would be interested to know.  Also I do pity Ryan for his huge task of sorting emails.   
Makes me feel special to have had one of my emails read on the bombcast too :P

" Makes me feel special to have had one of my emails read on the bombcast too :P "

You know it might be, considering that, if i recall correctly,the 1up podcast people all got laid off when ugo bought them. I think they kept doing a podcast but under a different name. Penny arcade maybe would have been, if only they would do some more episodes.

" @skywing said:

" Makes me feel special to have had one of my emails read on the bombcast too :P "

Yeah, same here. Even though they did unanimously rule against me... "

lol what was your email about? Mine was about being left handed and playing the wii,  as a lefties I find it hard to use the controller for some reason and I wanted to as Jeff ( a lefty) what he thought.it was something like a year and a half ago "

I wonder how many e-mails they do get per week.

" @ZanzibarBreeze: Don't worry, even if they shot you down by genre disqualification, Heat is by far the better movie in general. "

" I have always wondered how many people listen to the bombcast, 

Heat is a better movie, but they were right: it's not an action movie in the same way the Predator, Die Hard or Rambo is. It's way more cerebral and there are long stretches with very little action. I think "thriller" summed it up nicely.

" @skywing said:

" I have always wondered how many people listen to the bombcast, 

100,000 + listeners apparently. i read that somewhere.. it was a whiskey media statistic thing  "

" @ZanzibarBreeze: Don't worry, even if they shot you down by genre disqualification, Heat is by far the better movie in general. "

Damn, considering that the comments were in the dozens to few hundred I never thought it be that high. Few thousand tops, but over a hundred? Wow, good for the guys. I'm also glad that the equivalent of a small city heard me talk about my monocle.

" @AjayRaz said:

" @skywing said:

" I have always wondered how many people listen to the bombcast, 

100,000 + listeners apparently. i read that somewhere.. it was a whiskey media statistic thing  "

How does that compare to Comicvine, animevice, and tested? "

• Tested.com's podcast is only 4 episodes old.  I'm guessing the userbase can't be over 2000 people, even if you double that, you're looking at 4000 weekly listeners.
• Comicvine.com's podcast reaches back to 7.17.09.  With not quite 60k users, if you double that, you might be reaching 100k listeners, but I think we would've heard something 'bragging' or at least a mentioning of the number, at least on the whiskeymedia.com site.
• Animevice.com's squadcast reaches to 4.24.09.  They have just over 8k registered users, so double that, you're looking at less than 20k listeners per week.

GIant Bombcast is #6 most subscribed of all video game podcasts on iTunes, and #8 when you count all of the podcasts in the 'games and hobbies' section. I don't think that number has really changed that much. So yeah, it's doing pretty good (especially since, as far as I can tell, the only podcast that is of the same kind of format that the bombcast has is Garnett Lee's new show).

It's worth noting that not everyone uses iTunes, though. I'd probably guess that the majority of people don't use iTunes for podcasting, but I'm just pulling that out of my ass, so I might be wrong. Personally, I just find it easier to right-click-save-as, bearing in mind that I don't own any Apple products.
 
Still, over 100'000 people... dude, that's a lot.

Here's the aforementioned Whiskey Media Giant Bomb stats link:  http://www.whiskeymedia.com/brands_gb.shtml 
 
The 100,000 listeners statistic is last on the list in the About box on the lower left.
 
Edit: The link also contains an epic history recap video of the site with some never-before-seen footage (as far as I know), along with a neat graph showing the (ridiculously huge) visitor growth over time.

I remember seeing this awhile ago and still put a smile on face seeing that they couldn't put a runner-up in the Bombcast's shadow.

If Bombcast had a Metacritic rating it would be 100%.

Theres a lot of listeners that are not registered. it's a lot.

" @skywing said:

lol what was your email about? Mine was about being left handed and playing the wii,  as a lefties I find it hard to use the controller for some reason and I wanted to as Jeff ( a lefty) what he thought.it was something like a year and a half ago "

Mine was about whether Heat was a better action movie than Die Hard. I had, like, a $20 bet going with some buddies that Heat was the better action film. But the Jefferson, Ryan, Bradley and Vincenzo ruled that Heat isn't even an action movie - it's more of a thriller, I believe they said. So I lost by default.  Grrr! "

I thought that Farmville was the highest listened to?
Or am I just being a pompus ass?

I still remember my email being read in a pretty early bombcast.
I asked wherther they thought it plausible that Street Fighter 4 would come to the Wii.
They answered no, saying that Capcom wouldn't compromise on graphics just to have it on another platform.
Then Street Fighter iPhone happened.