Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (November 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 1.7 million in November 2022, up 1.2% 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 5.78% of the new episodes found in November.

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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 November 2022.

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

  1. Anchor 21.6%
  2. Buzzsprout 9.0%
  3. Spreaker 5.9%
  4. Libsyn 5.0%
  5. Omny Studio 4.9%
  6. Podbean 4.1%
  7. Soundcloud 3.6%
  8. Megaphone 3.5%
  9. iVoox 2.3%
  10. RSS.com 2.1%
  11. Simplecast 1.9%
  12. Acast 1.8%
  13. Transistor 1.3%
  14. Captivate 1.3%
  15. Blubrry 1.2%
  16. Triton Digital 1.1%
  17. Audioboom
  18. RedCircle
  19. Podigee
  20. Amazon S3
  21. Squarespace
  22. Ximalaya
  23. Castos
  24. Google Cloud
  25. Ausha
  26. ART19
  27. SoundOn
  28. Akamai CDN
  29. Podomatic
  30. Audiostart
  31. SermonAudio
  32. Futuri Media
  33. StreamGuys
  34. Subsplash
  35. Podtrac
  36. Voice of America English News
  37. Whooshkaa
  38. iono.fm
  39. NPR
  40. mave
  41. Audiomeans
  42. RTVE
  43. Deutschlandradio
  44. Enacast
  45. BBC
  46. Amazon CloudFront
  47. Hubhopper
  48. Substack
  49. Castbox
  50. NRJ-Group
  51. Radiotalk
  52. Internet Archive
  53. podcaster.de
  54. Radio France Internationale
  55. Sveriges Radio
  56. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
  57. Blog Talk Radio
  58. Pinecast
  59. Kajabi
  60. Cesky rozhlas
  61. Nox Solutions
  62. PodServe.fm
  63. Sermon.net
  64. Sharpstream
  65. WideOrbit
  66. Podcast.co
  67. Sounder
  68. OnePlace.com
  69. Kabbalah Media
  70. Adventist World Radio
  71. Atresmedia
  72. Fireside
  73. Europe 1
  74. hearthis.at
  75. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  76. RTÉ Radio
  77. Feedpress
  78. Chartable
  79. Church Plant Media
  80. Rackspace Storage
  81. Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  82. ListenBox
  83. LIVEBOX
  84. DigitalOcean Spaces
  85. LetsCast.fm
  86. RTP
  87. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
  88. Yle
  89. Jewish Podcasts
  90. Vatican News
  91. Radio Taiwan International
  92. lizhi.fm
  93. Podspace
  94. WordPress
  95. the Cloud Network
  96. PodPoint
  97. SRF
  98. COPE
  99. Kerkdienst Gemist
  100. Podcastics
  101. bCast
  102. Seesaa
  103. Österreichischer Rundfunk
  104. RTHK
  105. SpokenLayer
  106. PodBoxx
  107. Radio Télévision Suisse
  108. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
  109. CCMA
  110. RCF
  111. Radiotelevizija Slovenija
  112. Sochcast
  113. LSM.lv
  114. Springcast
  115. podCloud
  116. podcasts.com
  117. MBC TV
  118. YUTorah Online
  119. Bayerischer Rundfunk
  120. Octopus
  121. CBS Radio News
  122. CanalSur
  123. Podcastbude
  124. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
  125. Podetize
  126. Empire Streaming
  127. Seoul Broadcasting System
  128. Congregate
  129. PRX
  130. Korean Broadcasting System
  131. mediastream
  132. Nucleus
  133. Zencast
  134. Il Sole 24 Ore
  135. Radio Free Asia
  136. Zencastr
  137. CHGA
  138. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  139. Podster.fm
  140. Faithlife Sermons
  141. Radio France
  142. stand.fm
  143. Julep Hosting
  144. W Radio (Mexico)
  145. Talkshoe
  146. Canal Extremadura
  147. Radio Nacional Argentina
  148. Civic Media
  149. Monte Carlo Doualiya
  150. (all other known hosts)
  151. Securenet Systems
  152. RMF FM
  153. Flumotion
  154. Lightcast
  155. Daily Audio Bible
  156. Zee News
  157. PitPa
  158. TwentyThree
  159. VoiceAmerica
  160. Canstream Internet Radio
  161. Muslim Central
  162. Dropbox
  163. WNYC
  164. RFI România
  165. TeleMadrid
  166. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  167. Barstool Sports
  168. Wistia
  169. Cast
  170. BoxCast
  171. Aragon Radio CARTV
  172. ChristianWorldMedia.com
  173. GoDaddy WordPress Hosting
  174. JW Player
  175. Fans.fm
  176. Adori Labs
  177. DAX
  178. DR
  179. Bundesverband Freier Radios
  180. Djpod
  181. Podvine
  182. podkast.no
  183. Play.ht
  184. JustCast
  185. TerraSpaces
  186. Hello Audio
  187. American Public Media
  188. Podsights
  189. Radio de la Paix
  190. msk.ru
  191. LightSource
  192. Soundwise
  193. stationista
  194. Backtracks
  195. This Is Distorted
  196. WavPub
  197. DAR.fm
  198. Radio Maria
  199. Alitu
  200. Cuonda
  201. Podbbang
  202. Dropwave
  203. Podeo
  204. podseed
  205. Linode Object Storage
  206. LightSource
  207. CacheFly CDN
  208. CoHost
  209. Casted
  210. Megafono
  211. BackdoorPodcasts
  212. MediaFire File Storage
  213. Podcorn
  214. RFM
  215. TWiT
  216. Podcast Your Sermons
  217. The Washington Post
  218. Typlog
  219. Radio New Zealand
  220. PodCloud
  221. Spooler
  222. Supporting Cast
  223. Hipcast
  224. Nobex Partners
  225. Vodio
  226. 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 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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