Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (June 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 1.7 million in June 2023, up 0.5% 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 6.61% of the new episodes found in June.

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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 June 2023.

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

  1. Spotify for Podcasters 21.8%
  2. Buzzsprout 8.7%
  3. Spreaker 6.3%
  4. Omny Studio 5.2%
  5. Libsyn 4.5%
  6. Megaphone 4.5%
  7. Podbean 4.0%
  8. Soundcloud 3.3%
  9. iVoox 2.1%
  10. RSS.com 2.0%
  11. Acast 2.0%
  12. Simplecast 1.6%
  13. Triton Digital 1.4%
  14. Transistor 1.4%
  15. Captivate 1.3%
  16. Audioboom
  17. RedCircle
  18. Podigee
  19. Blubrry
  20. Amazon S3
  21. Google Cloud
  22. Ausha
  23. SoundOn
  24. Squarespace
  25. Ximalaya
  26. Akamai CDN
  27. Audiostart
  28. Podomatic
  29. Castos
  30. Futuri Media
  31. SermonAudio
  32. ART19
  33. StreamGuys
  34. Subsplash
  35. Voice of America English News
  36. mave
  37. Audiomeans
  38. NPR
  39. iono.fm
  40. Enacast
  41. RTVE
  42. Deutschlandradio
  43. Substack
  44. Amazon CloudFront
  45. Octopus
  46. NRJ-Group
  47. Castbox
  48. stand.fm
  49. podcaster.de
  50. Radio France Internationale
  51. Hubhopper
  52. Kajabi
  53. Internet Archive
  54. BBC
  55. Cesky rozhlas
  56. Sveriges Radio
  57. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
  58. WideOrbit
  59. Blog Talk Radio
  60. Atresmedia
  61. Radiotalk
  62. Sharpstream
  63. Europe 1
  64. Kabbalah Media
  65. hearthis.at
  66. Sermon.net
  67. Podcast.co
  68. RTÉ Radio
  69. PodServe.fm
  70. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  71. Adventist World Radio
  72. OnePlace.com
  73. Fireside
  74. Pinecast
  75. LetsCast.fm
  76. Zencastr
  77. LIVEBOX
  78. Seoul Broadcasting System
  79. Sochcast
  80. RTP
  81. Jewish Podcasts
  82. Rackspace Storage
  83. Vatican News
  84. ListenBox
  85. Feedpress
  86. Empire Streaming
  87. Church Plant Media
  88. COPE
  89. Podspace
  90. Podcastics
  91. Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  92. RTHK
  93. SRF
  94. Radio Taiwan International
  95. Springcast
  96. Small Universe
  97. Österreichischer Rundfunk
  98. CCMA
  99. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
  100. SoundCast
  101. PodPoint
  102. WordPress
  103. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
  104. Seesaa
  105. the Cloud Network
  106. RCF
  107. bCast
  108. RNC Media
  109. Podcastbude
  110. podCloud
  111. DigitalOcean Spaces
  112. CBS Radio News
  113. Radiotelevizija Slovenija
  114. podcasts.com
  115. LSM.lv
  116. Bayerischer Rundfunk
  117. MBC TV
  118. PRX
  119. NHK
  120. Korean Broadcasting System
  121. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  122. Controradio
  123. Congregate
  124. Nox Solutions
  125. Radio Free Asia
  126. lizhi.fm
  127. Podetize
  128. mediastream
  129. Faithlife Sermons
  130. 729ly.net
  131. Podster.fm
  132. Radio Télévision Suisse
  133. CanalSur
  134. Canstream Internet Radio
  135. Radio France
  136. Muslim Central
  137. Nucleus
  138. Julep Hosting
  139. Zee News
  140. Zencast
  141. YUTorah Online
  142. Radio Popolare
  143. CHGA
  144. Il Sole 24 Ore
  145. Flumotion
  146. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
  147. RMF FM
  148. All India Radio
  149. Radio Nacional Argentina
  150. 95bFM
  151. Lightcast
  152. Alitu
  153. Shortcast Club
  154. Radio FRO
  155. Talkshoe
  156. PitPa
  157. Securenet Systems
  158. Daily Audio Bible
  159. Kerkdienst Gemist
  160. WNYC
  161. VoiceAmerica
  162. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  163. (all other known hosts)
  164. Dropbox
  165. Civic Media
  166. RFI România
  167. Belgischer Rundfunk
  168. Wistia
  169. TeleMadrid
  170. msk.ru
  171. Dee Jay
  172. Red Basset
  173. Studeo
  174. Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona
  175. Barstool Sports
  176. Bundesverband Freier Radios
  177. Hello Audio
  178. BoxCast
  179. Radio de la Paix
  180. Radio Martí
  181. This Is Distorted
  182. TwentyThree
  183. Aragon Radio CARTV
  184. podkast.no
  185. Whooshkaa
  186. DR
  187. American Public Media
  188. Podle
  189. LiveWriters
  190. ChristianWorldMedia.com
  191. CoHost
  192. Radio New Zealand
  193. Radio Maria
  194. Cast
  195. JW Player
  196. Sonicbowl
  197. Dropwave
  198. JustCast
  199. Djpod
  200. LightSource
  201. WavPub
  202. stationista
  203. Podeo
  204. Monte Carlo Doualiya
  205. Adori Labs
  206. Soundwise
  207. Play.ht
  208. RFM
  209. Linode Object Storage
  210. Casted
  211. Fans.fm
  212. LightSource
  213. PodOps
  214. Vodio
  215. DAR.fm
  216. podseed
  217. Typlog
  218. CHYZ 94.3
  219. BackdoorPodcasts
  220. Podbbang
  221. Cuonda
  222. The Washington Post
  223. TWiT
  224. Radio Activ
  225. Fusebox
  226. Voxnest
  227. Podcast Your Sermons
  228. Megafono
  229. CacheFly CDN
  230. Callin
  231. TerraSpaces
  232. Discerning Hearts
  233. Nobex Partners
  234. Afripods
  235. 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 2023-07-01, 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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