Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (August 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 August 2023, up 1.2% 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 5.56% of the new episodes found in August.

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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 August 2023.

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

  1. Spotify for Podcasters 20.5%
  2. Buzzsprout 9.1%
  3. Spreaker 6.2%
  4. Omny Studio 6.0%
  5. Megaphone 5.1%
  6. Libsyn 4.5%
  7. Podbean 4.2%
  8. Soundcloud 3.5%
  9. RSS.com 2.1%
  10. Acast 1.9%
  11. Simplecast 1.6%
  12. Triton Digital 1.6%
  13. Captivate 1.5%
  14. iVoox 1.4%
  15. Transistor 1.4%
  16. Audioboom
  17. Podigee
  18. RedCircle
  19. Blubrry
  20. SoundOn
  21. Audiostart
  22. Amazon S3
  23. Google Cloud
  24. Ximalaya
  25. Futuri Media
  26. Squarespace
  27. Akamai CDN
  28. Castos
  29. Podomatic
  30. StreamGuys
  31. ART19
  32. SermonAudio
  33. Subsplash
  34. Voice of America English News
  35. Ausha
  36. iono.fm
  37. Audiomeans
  38. NPR
  39. mave
  40. Deutschlandradio
  41. Enacast
  42. Amazon CloudFront
  43. Radio France Internationale
  44. Substack
  45. Hubhopper
  46. NRJ-Group
  47. Cesky rozhlas
  48. Octopus
  49. Castbox
  50. stand.fm
  51. Sveriges Radio
  52. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
  53. Kajabi
  54. podcaster.de
  55. BBC
  56. WideOrbit
  57. Kabbalah Media
  58. Internet Archive
  59. RTVE
  60. PodServe.fm
  61. Blog Talk Radio
  62. Radiotalk
  63. Podcast.co
  64. Sermon.net
  65. Sharpstream
  66. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  67. hearthis.at
  68. OnePlace.com
  69. Adventist World Radio
  70. Atresmedia
  71. Fireside
  72. LetsCast.fm
  73. Zencastr
  74. Sochcast
  75. Seoul Broadcasting System
  76. RTÉ Radio
  77. Rackspace Storage
  78. SoundStack
  79. COPE
  80. Vatican News
  81. LIVEBOX
  82. Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  83. Church Plant Media
  84. Feedpress
  85. SRF
  86. Jewish Podcasts
  87. Shortcast Club
  88. Radio Taiwan International
  89. Pinecast
  90. Small Universe
  91. Julep Hosting
  92. RTHK
  93. Podspace
  94. podcasts.com
  95. Canstream Internet Radio
  96. ListenBox
  97. PodPoint
  98. RNC Media
  99. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
  100. CBS Radio News
  101. MBC TV
  102. the Cloud Network
  103. Podcastics
  104. WordPress
  105. Österreichischer Rundfunk
  106. DR
  107. Seesaa
  108. bCast
  109. Radio Free Asia
  110. Podcastbude
  111. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
  112. NHK
  113. Zee News
  114. Korean Broadcasting System
  115. RTP
  116. lizhi.fm
  117. Monte Carlo Doualiya
  118. Congregate
  119. PRX
  120. Radiotelevizija Slovenija
  121. Springcast
  122. Radio Télévision Suisse
  123. Podetize
  124. DigitalOcean Spaces
  125. LSM.lv
  126. Nox Solutions
  127. Controradio
  128. 729ly.net
  129. mediastream
  130. Faithlife Sermons
  131. Europe 1
  132. Bayerischer Rundfunk
  133. Radio Nacional Argentina
  134. Podster.fm
  135. Nucleus
  136. All India Radio
  137. SoundCast
  138. CHGA
  139. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  140. Zencast
  141. RCF
  142. Muslim Central
  143. Securenet Systems
  144. (all other known hosts)
  145. 95bFM
  146. Civic Media
  147. Lightcast
  148. Alitu
  149. podCloud
  150. Play.ht
  151. Belgischer Rundfunk
  152. CCMA
  153. Daily Audio Bible
  154. msk.ru
  155. WNYC
  156. Radio Popolare
  157. VoiceAmerica
  158. RMF FM
  159. Dropbox
  160. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
  161. Talkshoe
  162. Sonicbowl
  163. Houston Public Media
  164. Whooshkaa
  165. Studeo
  166. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  167. Hello Audio
  168. Radio FRO
  169. Red Basset
  170. Podcastle
  171. Barstool Sports
  172. Radio France
  173. Radio Martí
  174. Wistia
  175. BoxCast
  176. American Public Media
  177. Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona
  178. podkast.no
  179. Dropwave
  180. Kerkdienst Gemist
  181. Audion
  182. RFI România
  183. TwentyThree
  184. TeleMadrid
  185. LiveWriters
  186. Cast
  187. Zeno Media
  188. ChristianWorldMedia.com
  189. CoHost
  190. This Is Distorted
  191. LightSource
  192. WavPub
  193. JustCast
  194. Il Sole 24 Ore
  195. Radio New Zealand
  196. Aragon Radio CARTV
  197. Polyglot FM
  198. PodOps
  199. CanalSur
  200. Podle
  201. Flumotion
  202. Bundesverband Freier Radios
  203. JW Player
  204. Type III Audio
  205. Djpod
  206. Radio Maria
  207. Linode Object Storage
  208. Blogcast
  209. Adori Labs
  210. Radio de la Paix
  211. stationista
  212. Soundwise
  213. Fusebox
  214. Fans.fm
  215. Casted
  216. LightSource
  217. DAR.fm
  218. UPLINK Digital
  219. Podeo
  220. Voxnest
  221. Discerning Hearts
  222. Typlog
  223. TerraSpaces
  224. TWiT
  225. Podcast Your Sermons
  226. CHYZ 94.3
  227. podseed
  228. YUTorah Online
  229. Podbbang
  230. Vodio
  231. The Washington Post
  232. Callin
  233. Afripods
  234. Megafono
  235. Nobex Partners
  236. CacheFly CDN

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 2023-09-01, 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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