Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (April 2024)

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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 independently verify every single new podcast episode published (about 1.8 million in April 2024, down 2.3% from last month on a normalized basis) 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 4.5% 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.

A special note for March/April 2024

We now have a better signal of when Spreaker releases new episodes, so our crawlers are finding more, starting early-March. It’s likely that we were undercounting Spreaker prior to this.

A special note for September/October 2023

We now have a better signal of when Spotify for Podcasters (formerly Anchor) podcasts release new episodes, so our crawlers are finding more, starting mid-September.

October was the first full month where this new signal was incorporated for the entire month, so should be a more accurate baseline going forward. It’s likely that we were undercounting S4P prior to this, in general our goal is to observe and validate every change to every podcast.

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 2024.

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

  1. Spotify for Podcasters 27.6%
  2. Spreaker 8.8%
  3. Buzzsprout 8.5%
  4. Omny Studio 4.0%
  5. Podbean 3.9%
  6. Megaphone 3.9%
  7. Libsyn 3.6%
  8. Soundcloud 2.8%
  9. Transistor 2.4%
  10. Acast 2.3%
  11. RSS.com 2.2%
  12. Simplecast 2.1%
  13. iVoox 1.6%
  14. Captivate 1.5%
  15. Podigee
  16. RedCircle
  17. Triton Digital
  18. Audioboom
  19. Blubrry
  20. Audiomeans
  21. Amazon S3
  22. Ximalaya
  23. SoundOn
  24. Ausha
  25. Squarespace
  26. Castos
  27. Firstory
  28. SermonAudio
  29. Subsplash
  30. ART19
  31. Podomatic
  32. mave
  33. StreamGuys
  34. Akamai CDN
  35. Futuri Media
  36. Substack
  37. Audiostart
  38. Voice of America English News
  39. podcaster.de
  40. Amazon CloudFront
  41. stand.fm
  42. Kajabi
  43. SoundStack
  44. NPR
  45. Deutschlandradio
  46. RTVE
  47. Internet Archive
  48. WideOrbit
  49. iono.fm
  50. Radio France Internationale
  51. Castbox
  52. Enacast
  53. Small Universe
  54. Cesky rozhlas
  55. BBC
  56. Sermon.net
  57. Pinecast
  58. LetsCast.fm
  59. Sharpstream
  60. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
  61. PodServe.fm
  62. hearthis.at
  63. OnePlace.com
  64. Sveriges Radio
  65. Blog Talk Radio
  66. Podcast.co
  67. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  68. Kabbalah Media
  69. Zencastr
  70. Podspace
  71. Octopus
  72. Podcastle
  73. Fireside
  74. Radiotalk
  75. Adventist World Radio
  76. Hubhopper
  77. NHK
  78. NRJ-Group
  79. RTÉ Radio
  80. LIVEBOX
  81. Onda Cero
  82. Feedpress
  83. RTP
  84. Seoul Broadcasting System
  85. Church Plant Media
  86. Rackspace Storage
  87. Springcast
  88. Radio Taiwan International
  89. Vatican News
  90. Podcastics
  91. RTHK
  92. Podcastbude
  93. RNC Media
  94. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
  95. Julep Hosting
  96. Civic Media
  97. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
  98. SoundCast
  99. the Cloud Network
  100. Controradio
  101. Jewish Podcasts
  102. podCloud
  103. PRX
  104. DigitalOcean Spaces
  105. Österreichischer Rundfunk
  106. bCast
  107. Congregate
  108. Seesaa
  109. CanalSur
  110. SRF
  111. DR
  112. EITB
  113. Podetize
  114. WordPress
  115. Faithlife Sermons
  116. Podster.fm
  117. MBC TV
  118. CCMA
  119. Nox Solutions
  120. CBS Radio News
  121. LSM.lv
  122. lizhi.fm
  123. COPE
  124. Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  125. Muslim Central
  126. Korean Broadcasting System
  127. Sonicbowl
  128. Bayerischer Rundfunk
  129. LightSource
  130. Google Cloud
  131. ListenBox
  132. podcasts.com
  133. Il Sole 24 Ore
  134. Radiotelevizija Slovenija
  135. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  136. Alitu
  137. Securenet Systems
  138. Zencast
  139. CHGA
  140. Radio France
  141. mediastream
  142. Audion
  143. Nucleus
  144. Radio Popolare
  145. Radio Télévision Suisse
  146. Monte Carlo Doualiya
  147. Radio Free Asia
  148. (all other known hosts)
  149. Hello Audio
  150. Lightcast
  151. BaladoQuebec
  152. YUTorah Online
  153. WNYC
  154. Daily Audio Bible
  155. Shortcast Club
  156. 95bFM
  157. American Public Media
  158. RMF FM
  159. Talkshoe
  160. BoxCast
  161. Red Basset
  162. Houston Public Media
  163. Dee Jay
  164. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  165. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
  166. Vodio
  167. VoiceAmerica
  168. Barstool Sports
  169. Wistia
  170. Flumotion
  171. JOY Media
  172. Radio New Zealand
  173. podkast.no
  174. Dropbox
  175. ChristianWorldMedia.com
  176. Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona
  177. KFKA
  178. Kerkdienst Gemist
  179. CFIM
  180. This Is Distorted
  181. LiveWriters
  182. Fusebox
  183. Studeo
  184. Podeo
  185. Bundesverband Freier Radios
  186. Dragonfly FM
  187. TwentyThree
  188. Zeno Media
  189. Funkhaus Rosenheim
  190. CoHost
  191. WavPub
  192. LISTEN
  193. Djpod
  194. Radio Nikkei
  195. KBOO
  196. United Nations
  197. Whooshkaa
  198. Podhome
  199. Radio Maria
  200. Radio Martí
  201. Linode Object Storage
  202. JustCast
  203. Dropwave
  204. msk.ru
  205. Casted
  206. Adori Labs
  207. Polyglot FM
  208. TerraSpaces
  209. RCF
  210. Aragon Radio CARTV
  211. DoctorPodcasting
  212. Canstream Internet Radio
  213. Podle
  214. Syndicast
  215. Fans.fm
  216. LightSource
  217. Play.ht
  218. Issues, Etc.
  219. JW Player
  220. RSS Blue
  221. PromoDJ
  222. Typlog
  223. Podcast Your Sermons
  224. Soundwise
  225. Type III Audio
  226. Radio Activ
  227. stationista
  228. Cast
  229. UPLINK Digital
  230. Cuonda
  231. Voxnest
  232. podseed
  233. The Washington Post
  234. Afripods
  235. CacheFly CDN
  236. Infowars
  237. AudioVerse
  238. Discerning Hearts
  239. Radio de la Paix
  240. TWiT
  241. Graffiti Urban Radio

Analysis by John Spurlock

Thanks to the Podcast Index and other sources, for giving us signals of when to check for new episodes in public podcasts.

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 2024-05-01, with data for the month of April 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-04-01, with data for the month of March 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-03-02, with data for the month of February 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-02-02, with data for the month of January 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-01-01, with data for the month of December 2023. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2023-12-03, with data for the month of November 2023. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2023-11-02, with data for the month of October 2023. Still ex Radio France. October was the first full month where the new S4P signal was incorporated for the entire month, so should be a more accurate baseline going forward. It’s likely that we were undercounting S4P prior to this, in general our goal is to observe and validate every change to every podcast.

Updated 2023-10-01, with data for the month of September 2023. Still ex Radio France. We now have a better signal of when Spotify for Podcasters (formerly Anchor) podcasts release new episodes, so our crawlers are finding more, starting mid-September.

Updated 2023-09-01, with data for the month of August 2023. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2023-08-01, with data for the month of July 2023. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2023-07-01, with data for the month of June 2023. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2023-06-01, with data for the month of May 2023. Still ex Radio France.

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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