Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (August 2025)

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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 1.5 million in August 2025, down 3.2% 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 3.82% 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.

January 2025: Buzzsprout data Previous reports for November and December were missing a portion of new Buzzsprout episodes, due to our crawler being blocked by a firewall. This should be fixed going forward, and the Buzzsprout numbers for November and December have been updated in the current chart and archive pages.

March/April 2024: Spreaker data 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.

September/October 2023: Spotify for Creators data

We now have a better signal of when Spotify for Creators (formerly 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 S4C 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 Creators , 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 2025.

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


  1. Spotify for Creators 27.0%
  2. Spreaker 15.2%
  3. Buzzsprout 8.8%
  4. Podbean 4.0%
  5. Megaphone 3.9%
  6. Libsyn 3.0%
  7. Simplecast 2.7%
  8. Omny Studio 2.6%
  9. RSS.com 2.5%
  10. Transistor 2.3%
  11. Acast 2.3%
  12. Captivate 2.0%
  13. Soundcloud 1.6%
  14. Podigee 1.1%
  15. iVoox
  16. RedCircle
  17. Audioboom
  18. WideOrbit
  19. Blubrry
  20. Substack
  21. Firstory
  22. SoundOn
  23. Castos
  24. Subsplash
  25. ART19
  26. Amazon S3
  27. Ausha
  28. Audiomeans
  29. Triton Digital
  30. Squarespace
  31. SermonAudio
  32. Ximalaya
  33. Akamai CDN
  34. stand.fm
  35. Podomatic
  36. podcaster.de
  37. StreamGuys
  38. Small Universe
  39. SoundStack
  40. Kajabi
  41. Amazon CloudFront
  42. Futuri Media
  43. iono.fm
  44. mave
  45. LetsCast.fm
  46. Audiostart
  47. PodServe.fm
  48. NPR
  49. Sermon.net
  50. PRX
  51. BBC
  52. Internet Archive
  53. Podspace
  54. Deutschlandradio
  55. Podcastle
  56. Sharpstream
  57. Pinecast
  58. NRJ-Group
  59. Cesky rozhlas
  60. Podcast.co
  61. Castbox
  62. RTVE
  63. Feedpress
  64. Fireside
  65. OnePlace.com
  66. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  67. PromoDJ
  68. Kabbalah Media
  69. Civic Media
  70. Alitu
  71. Podcastics
  72. Sveriges Radio
  73. Radiotalk
  74. (all other known hosts)
  75. hearthis.at
  76. LIVEBOX
  77. RTÉ Radio
  78. Octopus
  79. Sonicbowl
  80. Enacast
  81. Rackspace Storage
  82. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  83. Zencastr
  84. Springcast
  85. Congregate
  86. DigitalOcean Spaces
  87. Adventist World Radio
  88. Hubhopper
  89. RTHK
  90. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
  91. NHK
  92. Faithlife Sermons
  93. LightSource
  94. Jewish Podcasts
  95. Onda Cero
  96. the Cloud Network
  97. Google Cloud
  98. Podster.fm
  99. CBS Radio News
  100. WordPress
  101. Riverside
  102. Podetize
  103. Vatican News
  104. Seesaa
  105. Julep Hosting
  106. Zencast
  107. Seoul Broadcasting System
  108. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
  109. Podeo
  110. Planning Center
  111. podCloud
  112. WNYC
  113. Korean Broadcasting System
  114. Hello Audio
  115. SRF
  116. Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  117. Österreichischer Rundfunk
  118. RTP
  119. lizhi.fm
  120. Podcastbude
  121. Radiotelevizija Slovenija
  122. Bayerischer Rundfunk
  123. LSM.lv
  124. LISTEN
  125. MBC TV
  126. Securenet Systems
  127. CHGA
  128. Audion
  129. Muslim Central
  130. Fluidstream
  131. Swell
  132. Podhome
  133. Lightcast
  134. CoHost
  135. BoxCast
  136. Zeno Media
  137. PodcastAI
  138. CanalSur
  139. Radio Télévision Suisse
  140. Nucleus
  141. Radio New Zealand
  142. Wistia
  143. Houston Public Media
  144. COPE
  145. Dropbox
  146. Daily Audio Bible
  147. YUTorah Online
  148. American Public Media
  149. KBOO
  150. Barstool Sports
  151. Funkhaus Rosenheim
  152. Radio Maria
  153. Fusebox
  154. Fountain
  155. Jornal da USP
  156. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  157. cba.media
  158. Linode Object Storage
  159. ChristianWorldMedia.com
  160. RNC Media
  161. Bundesverband Freier Radios
  162. DR
  163. WavPub
  164. BaladoQuebec
  165. PodToo
  166. This Is Distorted
  167. CFIM
  168. Talkshoe
  169. Red Basset
  170. Issues, Etc.
  171. Dropwave
  172. Controradio
  173. DoctorPodcasting
  174. mediastream
  175. Djpod
  176. Radio Nikkei
  177. RMF FM
  178. Koelab
  179. JOY Media
  180. Radio France
  181. PodOps
  182. Discerning Hearts
  183. Dragonfly FM
  184. Flightcast
  185. Il Sole 24 Ore
  186. Sepia Systems
  187. Studeo
  188. TwentyThree
  189. Syndicast
  190. JW Player
  191. LightSource
  192. MediaFire File Storage
  193. Nox Solutions
  194. United Nations
  195. TWiT
  196. Typlog
  197. stationista
  198. FRED
  199. msk.ru
  200. Vodio
  201. Type III Audio
  202. Podle
  203. Afripods
  204. JustCast
  205. Fans.fm
  206. WBEZ Chicago
  207. Casted
  208. Infowars
  209. Mumbler
  210. Cast
  211. Pulse Podcasts
  212. Soundwise

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 2025-09-01, with data for the month of August 2025. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2025-08-02, with data for the month of July 2025. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2025-07-01, with data for the month of June 2025. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2025-06-01, with data for the month of May 2025. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2025-05-01, with data for the month of April 2025. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2025-04-05, with data for the month of March 2025. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2025-03-01, with data for the month of February 2025. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2025-02-03, with data for the month of January 2025. Still ex Radio France. Corrected Buzzsprout numbers for November and December, which were missing a portion of new Buzzsprout episodes, due to our crawler being blocked by a firewall. This should be fixed going forward, in general our goal is to observe and validate every change to every podcast.

Updated 2025-01-02, with data for the month of December 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-12-01, with data for the month of November 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-11-06, with data for the month of October 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-10-01, with data for the month of September 2024. Still ex Radio France.

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 Creators (formerly 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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