Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (October 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 October 2022, similar to 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 5.84% of the new episodes found in October.
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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 October 2022.
A rounded percentage of episode share is also included if at least 1%.
- Anchor 21.9%
- Buzzsprout 9.1%
- Spreaker 6.1%
- Libsyn 5.0%
- Omny Studio 4.9%
- Podbean 4.2%
- Soundcloud 3.7%
- Megaphone 3.2%
- iVoox 2.4%
- RSS.com 2.0%
- Simplecast 1.8%
- Acast 1.7%
- Transistor 1.3%
- Captivate 1.3%
- Blubrry 1.2%
- Triton Digital 1.1%
- Audioboom
- Amazon S3
- RedCircle
- Podigee
- Squarespace
- ART19
- Google Cloud
- Podomatic
- Ximalaya
- SoundOn
- Audiostart
- SermonAudio
- Ausha
- Castos
- Akamai CDN
- Futuri Media
- Whooshkaa
- Subsplash
- Podtrac
- StreamGuys
- Voice of America English News
- iono.fm
- NPR
- Audiomeans
- RTVE
- Deutschlandradio
- mave
- BBC
- Substack
- Castbox
- Enacast
- Hubhopper
- Amazon CloudFront
- Radiotalk
- Internet Archive
- podcaster.de
- NRJ-Group
- Sounder
- Blog Talk Radio
- Radio France Internationale
- Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
- Pinecast
- Sveriges Radio
- Nox Solutions
- Sermon.net
- Cesky rozhlas
- PodServe.fm
- WideOrbit
- Kajabi
- OnePlace.com
- Adventist World Radio
- Podcast.co
- Sharpstream
- Atresmedia
- Europe 1
- Fireside
- Feedpress
- Wasabi Cloud Storage
- RTÉ Radio
- Kabbalah Media
- hearthis.at
- Church Plant Media
- Chartable
- Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- DigitalOcean Spaces
- LIVEBOX
- Yle
- Rackspace Storage
- LetsCast.fm
- WordPress
- Vatican News
- Eesti Rahvusringhääling
- RTP
- the Cloud Network
- PodPoint
- Radio Taiwan International
- SRF
- lizhi.fm
- Kerkdienst Gemist
- Podspace
- Seesaa
- COPE
- Podcastics
- CCMA
- Österreichischer Rundfunk
- SpokenLayer
- PodBoxx
- Radiotelevizija Slovenija
- bCast
- DR
- Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
- Radio Télévision Suisse
- RCF
- Springcast
- LSM.lv
- Podcastbude
- podCloud
- Bayerischer Rundfunk
- Octopus
- Jewish Podcasts
- podcasts.com
- MBC TV
- Congregate
- NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
- CBS Radio News
- GoDaddy WordPress Hosting
- Nucleus
- Seoul Broadcasting System
- CanalSur
- Empire Streaming
- PRX
- Podetize
- Il Sole 24 Ore
- Korean Broadcasting System
- Faithlife Sermons
- Zencast
- W Radio (Mexico)
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- Radio France
- Radio Free Asia
- mediastream
- Radio Nacional Argentina
- Podster.fm
- Julep Hosting
- Talkshoe
- CHGA
- Securenet Systems
- Zencastr
- Canal Extremadura
- Monte Carlo Doualiya
- Sochcast
- Flumotion
- RMF FM
- (all other known hosts)
- YUTorah Online
- Podvine
- Daily Audio Bible
- VoiceAmerica
- Dropbox
- Lightcast
- BoxCast
- PitPa
- Zee News
- Adori Labs
- Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
- Canstream Internet Radio
- WNYC
- TeleMadrid
- Wistia
- JustCast
- Cast
- Muslim Central
- RFI România
- ChristianWorldMedia.com
- JW Player
- Aragon Radio CARTV
- Soundwise
- Fans.fm
- DAX
- TwentyThree
- Radio Maria
- Hello Audio
- Podsights
- RTHK
- Djpod
- Play.ht
- LightSource
- Backtracks
- American Public Media
- Bundesverband Freier Radios
- msk.ru
- stationista
- DAR.fm
- LightSource
- This Is Distorted
- Callin
- Radio de la Paix
- Podeo
- Linode Object Storage
- podseed
- Dropwave
- WavPub
- Cuonda
- Hipcast
- CoHost
- Megafono
- MediaFire File Storage
- BackdoorPodcasts
- Podbbang
- Podcast Your Sermons
- TWiT
- CacheFly CDN
- Typlog
- Podcorn
- Spooler
- RFM
- PodCloud
- Casted
- Supporting Cast
- Graffiti Urban Radio
- Vodio
- The Washington Post
- Alitu
- Radio New Zealand
- PromoDJ
- Messy
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 2022-11-01, 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.
Previous versions:
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (September 2022)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (August 2022)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (July 2022)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (June 2022)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (May 2022)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (Apr 2022)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (Mar 2022)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (Feb 2022)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (Jan 2022)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (Dec 2021)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (Nov 2021)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (Oct 2021)
- Podcast Host Rankings by Episode Share (Sept 2021)
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