Spotify has awarded a Creator Milestone Award to “The Ben Shapiro Show” after the podcast surpassed 100 million streams.
The awards celebrate creator achievements and will be given quarterly to those creators who reach top engagement milestones on the Spotify platform.
These awards are the first time Spotify has publicly revealed streaming numbers for podcasters across the platform. Other Creator Milestone Award winners include “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Audiochuck’s “Crime Junkie,” and Barstool Sports’ “Pardon My Take.”
Hosted by Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro, the podcast launched under The Daily Wire in 2015 and quickly became one of the fastest-growing podcasts in the world. By 2017, the show was the second-most listened-to podcast on iTunes, surpassed at one time only by Oprah Winfrey’s podcast.
In 2018, POLITICO described Shapiro’s show as…
