Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (April 2023)

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One of the ways to measure the health of the current podcast ecosystem is to measure the number of new episodes published in a given period.

We look at every single new podcast episode published (about 1.7 million in April 2023, down 3.6% from last month) and identify which podcast hosting company it belongs to.

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We use the actual media file url (ignoring any non-host tracking redirects) to identify the host. It is not based on the feed url domain, which can often undercount hosts that offer custom domains.

In cases where a retail podcast host uses another podcast host to serve the audio, we credit the first host. In cases where a podcast migrates from one host to new host, we credit the new host. In general, the intent is to identify the podcast host the podcaster would say they are dealing with.

We were not able to identify a known host for 6.10% of the new episodes found in April.

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There are many market share numbers floating around out there for the various podcast hosting companies, but it’s often difficult to compare apples to apples - especially when considering inactive shows. Looking at only new episodes is one fairly objective way to compare each platform, at least by sheer amount of new output.

First, a quick chart of the top podcast hosting companies over time, based on share of new episodes every month.

And finally, a ranking of podcast hosters ordered by new episodes published during the month of April 2023.

A rounded percentage of episode share is also included if at least 1%.

  1. Spotify for Podcasters 24.8%
  2. Buzzsprout 8.9%
  3. Spreaker 6.2%
  4. Omny Studio 4.6%
  5. Libsyn 4.5%
  6. Megaphone 4.1%
  7. Podbean 4.0%
  8. Soundcloud 3.3%
  9. RSS.com 2.1%
  10. iVoox 1.9%
  11. Acast 1.9%
  12. Simplecast 1.8%
  13. Transistor 1.4%
  14. Captivate 1.3%
  15. Triton Digital 1.0%
  16. RedCircle
  17. Audioboom
  18. Podigee
  19. Blubrry
  20. Amazon S3
  21. Ausha
  22. Squarespace
  23. Google Cloud
  24. SoundOn
  25. Podomatic
  26. Castos
  27. Ximalaya
  28. SermonAudio
  29. Akamai CDN
  30. Futuri Media
  31. Audiostart
  32. ART19
  33. Subsplash
  34. StreamGuys
  35. mave
  36. NPR
  37. Voice of America English News
  38. Audiomeans
  39. Substack
  40. Amazon CloudFront
  41. RTVE
  42. Deutschlandradio
  43. iono.fm
  44. Castbox
  45. podcaster.de
  46. Enacast
  47. NRJ-Group
  48. Hubhopper
  49. Internet Archive
  50. Kajabi
  51. stand.fm
  52. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
  53. Radiotalk
  54. Cesky rozhlas
  55. Octopus
  56. Blog Talk Radio
  57. WideOrbit
  58. BBC
  59. Pinecast
  60. Radio France Internationale
  61. Sveriges Radio
  62. Sermon.net
  63. Empire Streaming
  64. Podcast.co
  65. Sharpstream
  66. Europe 1
  67. OnePlace.com
  68. hearthis.at
  69. PodServe.fm
  70. Adventist World Radio
  71. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  72. Kabbalah Media
  73. Fireside
  74. Atresmedia
  75. RTÉ Radio
  76. Muslim Central
  77. LetsCast.fm
  78. Church Plant Media
  79. LIVEBOX
  80. Vatican News
  81. Podspace
  82. Seoul Broadcasting System
  83. Rackspace Storage
  84. Feedpress
  85. Zencastr
  86. RTP
  87. ListenBox
  88. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
  89. Sochcast
  90. Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  91. COPE
  92. Radio Taiwan International
  93. PodPoint
  94. DigitalOcean Spaces
  95. Podcastics
  96. the Cloud Network
  97. Jewish Podcasts
  98. RTHK
  99. WordPress
  100. Springcast
  101. Seesaa
  102. CCMA
  103. Podcastbude
  104. SRF
  105. bCast
  106. Österreichischer Rundfunk
  107. podCloud
  108. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
  109. RCF
  110. lizhi.fm
  111. podcasts.com
  112. PodBoxx
  113. Small Universe
  114. CBS Radio News
  115. MBC TV
  116. Radiotelevizija Slovenija
  117. CanalSur
  118. Congregate
  119. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  120. Bayerischer Rundfunk
  121. LSM.lv
  122. Controradio
  123. PRX
  124. Podetize
  125. Nox Solutions
  126. 729ly.net
  127. Faithlife Sermons
  128. Podster.fm
  129. Zencast
  130. mediastream
  131. Nucleus
  132. Korean Broadcasting System
  133. Il Sole 24 Ore
  134. NHK
  135. Julep Hosting
  136. Radio Free Asia
  137. Radio Télévision Suisse
  138. Radio France
  139. CHGA
  140. Radio Nacional Argentina
  141. (all other known hosts)
  142. Lightcast
  143. Radio Popolare
  144. Civic Media
  145. 95bFM
  146. Daily Audio Bible
  147. Securenet Systems
  148. Whooshkaa
  149. RMF FM
  150. Talkshoe
  151. YUTorah Online
  152. PitPa
  153. Monte Carlo Doualiya
  154. WNYC
  155. Dee Jay
  156. VoiceAmerica
  157. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  158. Wistia
  159. Alitu
  160. BoxCast
  161. Dropbox
  162. Canstream Internet Radio
  163. Flumotion
  164. Red Basset
  165. RFI România
  166. Radio FRO
  167. Hello Audio
  168. Barstool Sports
  169. Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona
  170. Belgischer Rundfunk
  171. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
  172. Kerkdienst Gemist
  173. Zee News
  174. TeleMadrid
  175. ChristianWorldMedia.com
  176. JustCast
  177. This Is Distorted
  178. podkast.no
  179. msk.ru
  180. Djpod
  181. Cast
  182. TwentyThree
  183. Aragon Radio CARTV
  184. Bundesverband Freier Radios
  185. Dropwave
  186. Podle
  187. DR
  188. W Radio (Mexico)
  189. JW Player
  190. LightSource
  191. American Public Media
  192. Studeo
  193. WavPub
  194. Radio de la Paix
  195. LightSource
  196. Adori Labs
  197. Sonicbowl
  198. stationista
  199. Shortcast Club
  200. CoHost
  201. Linode Object Storage
  202. All India Radio
  203. Vodio
  204. DAR.fm
  205. Podvine
  206. Backtracks
  207. Play.ht
  208. Soundwise
  209. CHYZ 94.3
  210. Casted
  211. Typlog
  212. Podeo
  213. Radio Maria
  214. Fans.fm
  215. podseed
  216. TerraSpaces
  217. Fusebox
  218. BackdoorPodcasts
  219. Cuonda
  220. RFM
  221. Podcast Your Sermons
  222. Podbbang
  223. Radio Activ
  224. Megafono
  225. AudioVerse
  226. TWiT
  227. Discerning Hearts
  228. The Washington Post
  229. CacheFly CDN
  230. Afripods
  231. Radio New Zealand
  232. PodCloud

Analysis by John Spurlock

Thanks to the Podcast Index for crawling every podcast, and giving us a signal of when to check for new episodes.

And thanks to the Open Podcast Analytics Working Group for maintaining a list of media url patterns. We’ve incorporated these patterns along with some of our own to come up with the host identification and metadata for this ranking.

Updated 2023-05-01, with data for the month of April 2023. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2023-04-01, with data for the month of March 2023. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2023-03-01, with data for the month of February 2023. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2023-02-01, with data for the month of January 2023. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2023-01-01, with data for the month of December 2022. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2022-12-01, with data for the month of November 2022. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2022-11-01, with data for the month of October 2022. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2022-10-02, with data for the month of September 2022. Removed Radio France from the universe this month due to many of the same episodes appearing in multiple feeds but with different urls. We try to make sure in cases like this that we are not underrepresenting everyone else until we can ensure duplicates are properly represented.

Updated 2022-09-01, with data for the month of August 2022.

Updated 2022-08-01, with data for the month of July 2022. Updated share pct calculation denominator to all new episodes, not just new episodes with known host entities. As part of this, also now reporting the pct of new episodes with unknown hosts.

Updated 2022-07-01, with data for the month of June 2022.

Updated 2022-06-01, with data for the month of May 2022.

Updated 2022-05-01, with data for the month of April 2022.

Updated 2022-04-05, RSS Podcasting is now known as RSS.com.

Updated 2022-04-02, with data for the month of March 2022 and a new graph. Removed dynamic/aggregate search feeds that don’t represent shows, which signifcantly lowered the episode share ranking for Internet Archive, SermonAudio, and PromoDJ.

Updated 2022-03-01, with data for the month of February 2022.

Updated 2022-02-01, with data for the month of January 2022.

Updated 2022-01-10, was missing data for December 31, now fixed.

Updated 2022-01-02, with data for the month of December 2021. Now filtering out episodes with the same media file url across multiple feeds (e.g. in aggregate category feeds), and filtered out dynamic search feeds from archive.org (they do not represent “shows” for any meaningful definition of the term). Universe shrank by 10.6% with these new filters. After that, December’s universe was still 6.8% smaller than November’s, presumably due to the holiday season.

Updated 2021-12-02, with data for the month of November 2021.

Updated 2021-11-11, tweaked the host identification algorithm: in cases where one known host performs a temporary redirect (302, 307) to another known host as part of a single request chain, we credit the redirecting host, not the target. For permanent redirects (301), we credit the target.

Updated 2021-11-11, added a new footer link to last month’s version.

Updated 2021-11-10, with data for the month of October 2021.

Updated 2021-10-09, to clarify the universe and identification scheme, added an overall episode count, and replaced short domains with hosting company names.

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