Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (February 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 February 2024, up 4.8% 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 4.75% 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.

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 February 2024.

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

  1. Spotify for Podcasters 31.2%
  2. Buzzsprout 8.8%
  3. Spreaker 4.7%
  4. Omny Studio 4.2%
  5. Megaphone 4.1%
  6. Podbean 3.9%
  7. Libsyn 3.7%
  8. Soundcloud 2.8%
  9. RSS.com 2.2%
  10. Acast 2.2%
  11. Simplecast 1.8%
  12. iVoox 1.7%
  13. Transistor 1.7%
  14. Captivate 1.5%
  15. Triton Digital
  16. Podigee
  17. Audioboom
  18. RedCircle
  19. Blubrry
  20. Amazon S3
  21. Ausha
  22. SoundOn
  23. Squarespace
  24. Castos
  25. Audiomeans
  26. Ximalaya
  27. Firstory
  28. SermonAudio
  29. ART19
  30. Akamai CDN
  31. Podomatic
  32. StreamGuys
  33. Subsplash
  34. Futuri Media
  35. mave
  36. Audiostart
  37. Substack
  38. Voice of America English News
  39. NPR
  40. podcaster.de
  41. Deutschlandradio
  42. stand.fm
  43. SoundStack
  44. RTVE
  45. Kajabi
  46. iono.fm
  47. Amazon CloudFront
  48. Internet Archive
  49. Enacast
  50. Castbox
  51. Radio France Internationale
  52. BBC
  53. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
  54. WideOrbit
  55. Pinecast
  56. Cesky rozhlas
  57. Sharpstream
  58. Blog Talk Radio
  59. Sermon.net
  60. hearthis.at
  61. PodServe.fm
  62. LetsCast.fm
  63. NRJ-Group
  64. Sveriges Radio
  65. OnePlace.com
  66. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  67. Podcast.co
  68. Kabbalah Media
  69. Podspace
  70. Adventist World Radio
  71. Radiotalk
  72. RTÉ Radio
  73. Small Universe
  74. Onda Cero
  75. Zencastr
  76. Fireside
  77. Church Plant Media
  78. LIVEBOX
  79. Feedpress
  80. Seoul Broadcasting System
  81. Hubhopper
  82. Octopus
  83. RTP
  84. Rackspace Storage
  85. Podcastle
  86. Vatican News
  87. Radio Taiwan International
  88. Springcast
  89. RTHK
  90. Podcastics
  91. Jewish Podcasts
  92. Podcastbude
  93. Julep Hosting
  94. RNC Media
  95. SoundCast
  96. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
  97. the Cloud Network
  98. podCloud
  99. Controradio
  100. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
  101. bCast
  102. PRX
  103. DigitalOcean Spaces
  104. Civic Media
  105. Österreichischer Rundfunk
  106. CanalSur
  107. WordPress
  108. Seesaa
  109. CCMA
  110. COPE
  111. MBC TV
  112. DR
  113. Congregate
  114. CBS Radio News
  115. Bayerischer Rundfunk
  116. LSM.lv
  117. Podetize
  118. Faithlife Sermons
  119. Shortcast Club
  120. ListenBox
  121. Podster.fm
  122. Nox Solutions
  123. Korean Broadcasting System
  124. Google Cloud
  125. NHK
  126. Audion
  127. CHGA
  128. Securenet Systems
  129. podcasts.com
  130. Il Sole 24 Ore
  131. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  132. Alitu
  133. YUTorah Online
  134. Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  135. Radio France
  136. Radio Free Asia
  137. Monte Carlo Doualiya
  138. Zencast
  139. Radiotelevizija Slovenija
  140. Nucleus
  141. lizhi.fm
  142. (all other known hosts)
  143. Radio Popolare
  144. Radio Télévision Suisse
  145. Sonicbowl
  146. Muslim Central
  147. 95bFM
  148. Dee Jay
  149. mediastream
  150. Hello Audio
  151. Talkshoe
  152. Lightcast
  153. American Public Media
  154. RMF FM
  155. Daily Audio Bible
  156. WNYC
  157. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
  158. Houston Public Media
  159. BoxCast
  160. Red Basset
  161. Polyglot FM
  162. Barstool Sports
  163. Flumotion
  164. PodOps
  165. Wistia
  166. Kerkdienst Gemist
  167. Radio New Zealand
  168. Dropbox
  169. Studeo
  170. Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona
  171. Vodio
  172. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  173. Bundesverband Freier Radios
  174. This Is Distorted
  175. VoiceAmerica
  176. ChristianWorldMedia.com
  177. Radio Nikkei
  178. podkast.no
  179. Fusebox
  180. SRF
  181. Zeno Media
  182. Dragonfly FM
  183. TerraSpaces
  184. Podeo
  185. CoHost
  186. RFI România
  187. LISTEN
  188. LightSource
  189. TwentyThree
  190. LiveWriters
  191. Belgischer Rundfunk
  192. United Nations
  193. All India Radio
  194. msk.ru
  195. Djpod
  196. Funkhaus Rosenheim
  197. PromoDJ
  198. Dropwave
  199. Whooshkaa
  200. Casted
  201. Linode Object Storage
  202. Adori Labs
  203. Radio Martí
  204. Canstream Internet Radio
  205. Podle
  206. DoctorPodcasting
  207. Play.ht
  208. Aragon Radio CARTV
  209. WavPub
  210. Fans.fm
  211. JW Player
  212. Typlog
  213. Issues, Etc.
  214. UPLINK Digital
  215. LightSource
  216. Radio Activ
  217. Podcast Your Sermons
  218. Cast
  219. RSS Blue
  220. Soundwise
  221. podseed
  222. CacheFly CDN
  223. stationista
  224. Type III Audio
  225. Radio Maria
  226. Discerning Hearts
  227. Voxnest
  228. RCF
  229. The Washington Post
  230. Cuonda
  231. Podhome
  232. Radio de la Paix
  233. Afripods
  234. TWiT
  235. Megafono
  236. Podbbang

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 2024-03-02, 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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