Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (February 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 1.6 million in February 2023, up 7.4% 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 6.47% of the new episodes found in February.

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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 February 2023.

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

  1. Anchor 22.3%
  2. Buzzsprout 9.5%
  3. Spreaker 5.4%
  4. Omny Studio 4.9%
  5. Libsyn 4.8%
  6. Podbean 4.0%
  7. Megaphone 3.7%
  8. Soundcloud 3.5%
  9. RSS.com 2.3%
  10. iVoox 2.1%
  11. Simplecast 1.9%
  12. Acast 1.9%
  13. Transistor 1.4%
  14. Captivate 1.3%
  15. Triton Digital 1.1%
  16. Audioboom
  17. Podigee
  18. Blubrry
  19. RedCircle
  20. Amazon S3
  21. Squarespace
  22. Ausha
  23. Google Cloud
  24. Akamai CDN
  25. Castos
  26. SoundOn
  27. Podomatic
  28. Ximalaya
  29. SermonAudio
  30. Audiostart
  31. ART19
  32. Futuri Media
  33. Subsplash
  34. Substack
  35. StreamGuys
  36. NPR
  37. mave
  38. Voice of America English News
  39. Audiomeans
  40. iono.fm
  41. RTVE
  42. Deutschlandradio
  43. Amazon CloudFront
  44. Castbox
  45. podcaster.de
  46. Enacast
  47. Internet Archive
  48. Hubhopper
  49. NRJ-Group
  50. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
  51. Radiotalk
  52. Kajabi
  53. Pinecast
  54. Cesky rozhlas
  55. Blog Talk Radio
  56. Radio France Internationale
  57. stand.fm
  58. BBC
  59. WideOrbit
  60. Sveriges Radio
  61. Sermon.net
  62. Podcast.co
  63. Sharpstream
  64. PodServe.fm
  65. OnePlace.com
  66. Atresmedia
  67. Adventist World Radio
  68. Europe 1
  69. hearthis.at
  70. Fireside
  71. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  72. RTÉ Radio
  73. Kabbalah Media
  74. Octopus
  75. Church Plant Media
  76. LetsCast.fm
  77. Feedpress
  78. Sochcast
  79. LIVEBOX
  80. Rackspace Storage
  81. RTP
  82. ListenBox
  83. Jewish Podcasts
  84. Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  85. DigitalOcean Spaces
  86. COPE
  87. Vatican News
  88. Podspace
  89. WordPress
  90. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
  91. the Cloud Network
  92. PodPoint
  93. Radio Taiwan International
  94. Podcastbude
  95. Podcastics
  96. lizhi.fm
  97. RTHK
  98. SRF
  99. Zencastr
  100. CCMA
  101. Empire Streaming
  102. Springcast
  103. RCF
  104. Whooshkaa
  105. Österreichischer Rundfunk
  106. Seoul Broadcasting System
  107. bCast
  108. Seesaa
  109. SpokenLayer
  110. podCloud
  111. Radiotelevizija Slovenija
  112. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
  113. PodBoxx
  114. MBC TV
  115. CBS Radio News
  116. Controradio
  117. Nox Solutions
  118. LSM.lv
  119. Bayerischer Rundfunk
  120. podcasts.com
  121. Congregate
  122. YUTorah Online
  123. CanalSur
  124. Radio Télévision Suisse
  125. PRX
  126. Zencast
  127. Radio Free Asia
  128. Podetize
  129. Small Universe
  130. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  131. 729ly.net
  132. Il Sole 24 Ore
  133. W Radio (Mexico)
  134. Podster.fm
  135. NHK
  136. Nucleus
  137. Korean Broadcasting System
  138. Dee Jay
  139. Muslim Central
  140. Faithlife Sermons
  141. CHGA
  142. Monte Carlo Doualiya
  143. Talkshoe
  144. Radio France
  145. Civic Media
  146. (all other known hosts)
  147. Radio Popolare
  148. Kerkdienst Gemist
  149. mediastream
  150. 95bFM
  151. Julep Hosting
  152. RMF FM
  153. Securenet Systems
  154. Lightcast
  155. All India Radio
  156. Daily Audio Bible
  157. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
  158. Flumotion
  159. Radio FRO
  160. VoiceAmerica
  161. Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona
  162. Dropbox
  163. PitPa
  164. WNYC
  165. Canstream Internet Radio
  166. Wistia
  167. Zee News
  168. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  169. Barstool Sports
  170. Alitu
  171. Belgischer Rundfunk
  172. TwentyThree
  173. BoxCast
  174. Red Basset
  175. RFI România
  176. ChristianWorldMedia.com
  177. TeleMadrid
  178. Canal Extremadura
  179. Radio Nacional Argentina
  180. Aragon Radio CARTV
  181. Hello Audio
  182. Cast
  183. Bundesverband Freier Radios
  184. podkast.no
  185. msk.ru
  186. Podvine
  187. JW Player
  188. Djpod
  189. Radio de la Paix
  190. DR
  191. JustCast
  192. LightSource
  193. American Public Media
  194. Dropwave
  195. Podle
  196. TerraSpaces
  197. stationista
  198. Fans.fm
  199. DAX
  200. Play.ht
  201. LightSource
  202. Vodio
  203. Linode Object Storage
  204. This Is Distorted
  205. Adori Labs
  206. CHYZ 94.3
  207. Soundwise
  208. WavPub
  209. CoHost
  210. Podeo
  211. Casted
  212. Sonicbowl
  213. Backtracks
  214. Typlog
  215. RFM
  216. Cuonda
  217. Radio Totem
  218. DAR.fm
  219. podseed
  220. Radio Maria
  221. BackdoorPodcasts
  222. Cihan Radyo
  223. Radio Activ
  224. Megafono
  225. CacheFly CDN
  226. TWiT
  227. Podbbang
  228. MediaFire File Storage
  229. Radio New Zealand
  230. Podcast Your Sermons
  231. The Washington Post
  232. Discerning Hearts
  233. Nobex Partners
  234. Graffiti Urban Radio

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 2023-03-01, 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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