Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (June 2022)

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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 June 2022, down 3.4% from last month) and identify which podcast hosting company it belongs to.


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.


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 June 2022.

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

Comparative growth or decrease to last month’s share is included for relative moves of at least 2.5%, or otherwise notable.


  1. Anchor 24.4%
  2. Buzzsprout 8.1% (↘︎ 8.4%)
  3. Spreaker 7.4%
  4. Libsyn 5.6%
  5. Omny Studio 5.3% (↗︎ 8.7%)
  6. Podbean 4.7%
  7. Soundcloud 4.5%
  8. iVoox 2.7%
  9. Megaphone 2.7% (↗︎ 6.4%)
  10. Simplecast 1.7% (↗︎ 5.1%)
  11. Acast 1.5% (↗︎ 3.1%)
  12. Triton Digital 1.4% (↗︎ 6.4%)
  13. Captivate 1.3% (↗︎ 2.7%)
  14. Blubrry 1.3%
  15. Transistor 1.2% (↗︎ 6.9%)
  16. Radio France 1.2%
  17. Akamai CDN 1.2% (↗︎ 10.7%)
  18. Amazon S3 1.0%
  19. Audioboom
  20. RSS.com
  21. Podigee
  22. Whooshkaa
  23. Podtrac
  24. Squarespace
  25. RedCircle
  26. ART19
  27. Audiostart
  28. SoundOn
  29. Ximalaya
  30. Podomatic
  31. Google Cloud
  32. SermonAudio
  33. Futuri Media
  34. StreamGuys
  35. Internet Archive
  36. Voice of America English News
  37. Castos
  38. NPR
  39. iono.fm
  40. Subsplash
  41. NRJ-Group
  42. RTVE
  43. Deutschlandradio
  44. Castbox
  45. BBC
  46. Amazon CloudFront
  47. Radiotalk
  48. Enacast
  49. WideOrbit
  50. Audiomeans
  51. Nox Solutions
  52. PromoDJ
  53. Hubhopper
  54. mave
  55. podcaster.de
  56. Sveriges Radio
  57. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
  58. Atresmedia
  59. Blog Talk Radio
  60. Kabbalah Media
  61. Sounder
  62. Substack
  63. Adventist World Radio
  64. Streamakaci
  65. Pinecast
  66. Sermon.net
  67. Feedpress
  68. OnePlace.com
  69. Fireside
  70. Sharpstream
  71. hearthis.at
  72. Podcast.co
  73. Europe 1
  74. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  75. Chartable
  76. lizhi.fm
  77. Ausha
  78. Cesky rozhlas
  79. Kajabi
  80. Rackspace Storage
  81. PodServe.fm
  82. Canstream Internet Radio
  83. WordPress
  84. CBS Radio News
  85. LIVEBOX
  86. RTP
  87. Vatican News
  88. DigitalOcean Spaces
  89. the Cloud Network
  90. SRF
  91. SpokenLayer
  92. LetsCast.fm
  93. Seesaa
  94. PodPoint
  95. Jewish Podcasts
  96. Voxnest
  97. COPE
  98. CCMA
  99. Podspace
  100. Nobex Partners
  101. bCast
  102. Médiamétrie
  103. PodBoxx
  104. Podcastics
  105. LSM.lv
  106. podcasts.com
  107. ABC Australia
  108. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  109. podCloud
  110. Congregate
  111. Zencast
  112. PRX
  113. Springcast
  114. Zeno.FM
  115. RAC1
  116. Podetize
  117. Faithlife Sermons
  118. Talkshoe
  119. Flumotion
  120. Octopus
  121. (all others)
  122. Adori Labs
  123. Podcastbude
  124. Julep Hosting
  125. Securenet Systems
  126. Dropbox
  127. Lightcast
  128. Podster.fm
  129. Hipcast
  130. JW Player
  131. WNYC
  132. Callin
  133. Cast
  134. Fans.fm
  135. BoxCast
  136. Play.ht
  137. TwentyThree
  138. Wistia
  139. PitPa
  140. DAX
  141. CacheFly CDN
  142. Djpod
  143. Podty
  144. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  145. American Public Media
  146. Dropwave
  147. Hello Audio
  148. Backtracks
  149. Cogeco Media
  150. Podcorn
  151. stationista
  152. This Is Distorted
  153. Soundwise
  154. DAR.fm
  155. Podsights
  156. Spooler
  157. Megafono
  158. Podbbang
  159. Linode Object Storage
  160. Typlog
  161. Aragon Radio CARTV
  162. Casted
  163. Podvine
  164. Supporting Cast
  165. Cuonda
  166. podseed
  167. MediaFire File Storage
  168. PodCloud
  169. BackdoorPodcasts
  170. The Washington Post
  171. AudioVerse
  172. Podcast Your Sermons
  173. Podeo
  174. Empire Streaming
  175. WavPub

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 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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