Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (August 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 1.7 million in August 2024, down 4.1% 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 4.56% 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.


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.



Spotify for Podcasters , Spreaker , and Buzzsprout are the clear top three producers of new podcast episodes.

Now let’s graph the same data again, excluding them to see the others more clearly.



And finally, a ranking of podcast hosters ordered by new episodes published during the month of August 2024.

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


  1. Spotify for Podcasters 24.1%
  2. Spreaker 11.6%
  3. Buzzsprout 8.1%
  4. Megaphone 4.8%
  5. Omny Studio 4.3%
  6. Podbean 4.2%
  7. Libsyn 3.6%
  8. Soundcloud 2.7%
  9. Acast 2.3%
  10. RSS.com 2.1%
  11. Simplecast 2.1%
  12. Transistor 1.7%
  13. Captivate 1.5%
  14. iVoox 1.1%
  15. Podigee
  16. Triton Digital
  17. Audiomeans
  18. Blubrry
  19. Audioboom
  20. Akamai CDN
  21. SoundOn
  22. RedCircle
  23. Amazon S3
  24. Firstory
  25. Castos
  26. WideOrbit
  27. Subsplash
  28. Squarespace
  29. Ausha
  30. ART19
  31. Substack
  32. Futuri Media
  33. StreamGuys
  34. SermonAudio
  35. mave
  36. Podomatic
  37. Ximalaya
  38. Audiostart
  39. stand.fm
  40. SoundStack
  41. iono.fm
  42. podcaster.de
  43. Amazon CloudFront
  44. NRJ-Group
  45. NPR
  46. Deutschlandradio
  47. Small Universe
  48. Kajabi
  49. Internet Archive
  50. Radio France Internationale
  51. Hubhopper
  52. Cesky rozhlas
  53. Sermon.net
  54. Kabbalah Media
  55. LetsCast.fm
  56. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  57. OnePlace.com
  58. BBC
  59. Castbox
  60. Enacast
  61. RTVE
  62. Pinecast
  63. Sveriges Radio
  64. PodServe.fm
  65. Adventist World Radio
  66. Podcastle
  67. Sharpstream
  68. Podcast.co
  69. Blog Talk Radio
  70. hearthis.at
  71. Radiotalk
  72. LIVEBOX
  73. Zencastr
  74. Fireside
  75. PromoDJ
  76. NHK
  77. Feedpress
  78. Seoul Broadcasting System
  79. Podspace
  80. RTÉ Radio
  81. Rackspace Storage
  82. Radio Taiwan International
  83. RTHK
  84. Vatican News
  85. Octopus
  86. Onda Cero
  87. Podcastbude
  88. LightSource
  89. Podcastics
  90. PRX
  91. Julep Hosting
  92. Civic Media
  93. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
  94. Springcast
  95. Jewish Podcasts
  96. MBC TV
  97. the Cloud Network
  98. Seesaa
  99. Sonicbowl
  100. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
  101. Nox Solutions
  102. SRF
  103. Congregate
  104. Google Cloud
  105. Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  106. Podetize
  107. CBS Radio News
  108. Österreichischer Rundfunk
  109. COPE
  110. LSM.lv
  111. RNC Media
  112. Korean Broadcasting System
  113. RTP
  114. ListenBox
  115. Podster.fm
  116. DigitalOcean Spaces
  117. lizhi.fm
  118. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  119. Securenet Systems
  120. Monte Carlo Doualiya
  121. (all other known hosts)
  122. Zencast
  123. podCloud
  124. WNYC
  125. Bayerischer Rundfunk
  126. EITB
  127. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  128. Radiotelevizija Slovenija
  129. Alitu
  130. bCast
  131. Audion
  132. Radio Télévision Suisse
  133. Controradio
  134. Faithlife Sermons
  135. CHGA
  136. Muslim Central
  137. Hello Audio
  138. Daily Audio Bible
  139. Talkshoe
  140. YUTorah Online
  141. American Public Media
  142. Nucleus
  143. PodcastAI
  144. Kerkdienst Gemist
  145. Wistia
  146. Lightcast
  147. Dropbox
  148. Fluidstream
  149. Houston Public Media
  150. LISTEN
  151. Barstool Sports
  152. VoiceAmerica
  153. mediastream
  154. BoxCast
  155. Radio Free Asia
  156. Dragonfly FM
  157. LiveWriters
  158. cba.media
  159. Zeno Media
  160. Red Basset
  161. Podeo
  162. Bundesverband Freier Radios
  163. Radio France
  164. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
  165. Fusebox
  166. CoHost
  167. CFIM
  168. CanalSur
  169. BaladoQuebec
  170. CCMA
  171. ChristianWorldMedia.com
  172. Radio New Zealand
  173. podcasts.com
  174. Podhome
  175. Studeo
  176. Koelab
  177. KBOO
  178. DR
  179. Radio Nikkei
  180. Dropwave
  181. TwentyThree
  182. JOY Media
  183. KFKA
  184. Canstream Internet Radio
  185. Funkhaus Rosenheim
  186. This Is Distorted
  187. Linode Object Storage
  188. Il Sole 24 Ore
  189. RMF FM
  190. WordPress
  191. WavPub
  192. Radio Maria
  193. United Nations
  194. msk.ru
  195. Djpod
  196. Issues, Etc.
  197. Adori Labs
  198. JustCast
  199. Fans.fm
  200. DoctorPodcasting
  201. Syndicast
  202. RSS Blue
  203. Podle
  204. Flumotion
  205. Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona
  206. Typlog
  207. Aragon Radio CARTV
  208. Type III Audio
  209. Play.ht
  210. The Washington Post
  211. LightSource
  212. Soundwise
  213. Casted
  214. Infowars
  215. Podcast Your Sermons
  216. Sepia Systems
  217. JW Player
  218. TWiT
  219. Afripods
  220. stationista
  221. podseed
  222. Cast
  223. Discerning Hearts
  224. Nobex Partners
  225. Progzilla Radio
  226. Shortcast Club
  227. Vodio
  228. Voxnest
  229. Dee Jay
  230. Changelog

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 2024-09-01, with data for the month of August 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-08-01, with data for the month of July 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-07-01, with data for the month of June 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-06-01, with data for the month of May 2024. Still ex Radio France.

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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