Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (October 2024)

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 2.0 million in October 2024, up 12.9% from last month on a normalized basis) 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 4.60% 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.


A special note for March/April 2024

We now have a better signal of when Spreaker releases new episodes, so our crawlers are finding more, starting early-March. It’s likely that we were undercounting Spreaker prior to this.

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.



Spotify for Podcasters , Spreaker , and Buzzsprout are the clear top three producers of new podcast episodes.

Now let’s graph the same data again, excluding them to see the others more clearly.



And finally, a ranking of podcast hosters ordered by new episodes published during the month of October 2024.

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


  1. Spotify for Podcasters 23.6%
  2. Spreaker 12.1%
  3. Buzzsprout 7.9%
  4. Megaphone 4.3%
  5. Podbean 4.0%
  6. Omny Studio 3.7%
  7. Libsyn 3.4%
  8. Acast 2.5%
  9. Simplecast 2.4%
  10. RSS.com 2.2%
  11. Soundcloud 2.2%
  12. Transistor 1.7%
  13. iVoox 1.6%
  14. Captivate 1.5%
  15. Triton Digital 1.0%
  16. Audiomeans 1.0%
  17. WideOrbit
  18. Podigee
  19. RedCircle
  20. Audioboom
  21. Blubrry
  22. Akamai CDN
  23. Ausha
  24. SoundOn
  25. Firstory
  26. Castos
  27. Amazon S3
  28. Ximalaya
  29. Subsplash
  30. Substack
  31. ART19
  32. Squarespace
  33. StreamGuys
  34. SermonAudio
  35. Futuri Media
  36. Audiostart
  37. mave
  38. Podomatic
  39. stand.fm
  40. SoundStack
  41. iono.fm
  42. podcaster.de
  43. Amazon CloudFront
  44. NRJ-Group
  45. Deutschlandradio
  46. Small Universe
  47. RTVE
  48. Kajabi
  49. Enacast
  50. NPR
  51. Radio France Internationale
  52. Cesky rozhlas
  53. Hubhopper
  54. Octopus
  55. PodServe.fm
  56. LetsCast.fm
  57. Sharpstream
  58. Podcastle
  59. BBC
  60. Kabbalah Media
  61. Sveriges Radio
  62. Sermon.net
  63. Wasabi Cloud Storage
  64. Pinecast
  65. Castbox
  66. OnePlace.com
  67. Podspace
  68. hearthis.at
  69. LIVEBOX
  70. Podcast.co
  71. Adventist World Radio
  72. RTÉ Radio
  73. Radiotalk
  74. Fireside
  75. Blog Talk Radio
  76. Podcastics
  77. RTP
  78. Feedpress
  79. Onda Cero
  80. Rackspace Storage
  81. PromoDJ
  82. Seoul Broadcasting System
  83. NHK
  84. Radio Taiwan International
  85. Vatican News
  86. RTHK
  87. PRX
  88. Eesti Rahvusringhääling
  89. Zencastr
  90. Springcast
  91. Sonicbowl
  92. LightSource
  93. Listen2.AI
  94. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep
  95. CanalSur
  96. Podcastbude
  97. DigitalOcean Spaces
  98. Julep Hosting
  99. Civic Media
  100. podCloud
  101. EITB
  102. Österreichischer Rundfunk
  103. LSM.lv
  104. the Cloud Network
  105. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  106. SRF
  107. Seesaa
  108. MBC TV
  109. Internet Archive
  110. Westdeutscher Rundfunk
  111. Podetize
  112. Nox Solutions
  113. Podster.fm
  114. Google Cloud
  115. ListenBox
  116. COPE
  117. Jewish Podcasts
  118. Congregate
  119. Radiotelevizija Slovenija
  120. CCMA
  121. Audion
  122. Bayerischer Rundfunk
  123. Securenet Systems
  124. Korean Broadcasting System
  125. CBS Radio News
  126. Il Sole 24 Ore
  127. Monte Carlo Doualiya
  128. Alitu
  129. CHGA
  130. WNYC
  131. (all other known hosts)
  132. Fluidstream
  133. RNC Media
  134. Zencast
  135. Muslim Central
  136. Faithlife Sermons
  137. Radio Télévision Suisse
  138. Hello Audio
  139. lizhi.fm
  140. mediastream
  141. YUTorah Online
  142. Dee Jay
  143. Radio France
  144. American Public Media
  145. cba.media
  146. PodcastAI
  147. Daily Audio Bible
  148. Flumotion
  149. Kerkdienst Gemist
  150. Red Basset
  151. Wistia
  152. Dropbox
  153. Talkshoe
  154. Nucleus
  155. LISTEN
  156. Podeo
  157. Barstool Sports
  158. Radio SCOOP
  159. Bundesverband Freier Radios
  160. podcasts.com
  161. BoxCast
  162. Lightcast
  163. Houston Public Media
  164. CoHost
  165. Qodpod
  166. BaladoQuebec
  167. LiveWriters
  168. VoiceAmerica
  169. RMF FM
  170. Fusebox
  171. CFIM
  172. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
  173. KFKA
  174. ChristianWorldMedia.com
  175. Jornal da USP
  176. KBOO
  177. Dragonfly FM
  178. Podhome
  179. Zeno Media
  180. DR
  181. Controradio
  182. United Nations
  183. WordPress
  184. Funkhaus Rosenheim
  185. Koelab
  186. Podle
  187. Radio New Zealand
  188. TwentyThree
  189. Studeo
  190. Sound of Hope
  191. Djpod
  192. WavPub
  193. WBEZ Chicago
  194. Radio Nikkei
  195. Vivre FM
  196. Ràdio Ciutat de Tarragona
  197. Linode Object Storage
  198. This Is Distorted
  199. msk.ru
  200. Dropwave
  201. Vodio
  202. Radio Maria
  203. Aragon Radio CARTV
  204. Issues, Etc.
  205. JustCast
  206. JOY Media
  207. Adori Labs
  208. Radio Laser
  209. Type III Audio
  210. Radio Free Asia
  211. DoctorPodcasting
  212. Fans.fm
  213. Play.ht
  214. Syndicast
  215. Casted
  216. Radio de la Paix
  217. Infowars
  218. Sepia Systems
  219. Radio Activ
  220. LightSource
  221. stationista
  222. Podcast Your Sermons
  223. The Washington Post
  224. JW Player
  225. Afripods
  226. Nobex Partners
  227. Attitude
  228. TWiT
  229. Cast
  230. Cuonda
  231. podseed
  232. Typlog
  233. Progzilla Radio
  234. Discerning Hearts
  235. RSS Blue
  236. Mumbler
  237. FRED
  238. Voxnest
  239. Canstream Internet Radio
  240. Shortcast Club

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 2024-11-06, with data for the month of October 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-10-01, with data for the month of September 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-09-01, with data for the month of August 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-08-01, with data for the month of July 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-07-01, with data for the month of June 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-06-01, with data for the month of May 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-05-01, with data for the month of April 2024. Still ex Radio France.

Updated 2024-04-01, with data for the month of March 2024. Still ex Radio France.

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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