Hosting Systems

This report shows the various hosting systems used by podcasts. The system is determined by the generator tag in the RSS feed. This method is good to determine hosting services, but might undercount self hosting systems.

The number of podcasts in this table refers to the number of podcasts in our dataset. The true number of podcasts are higher. Additionally our sampling mechansim might introduce a bias toward some hosters.

Tag	#Podcasts	Market Share	Free?	Self Hosting?	Homepage
Unknown/Others	78726	33.2%	❓	❓
Spotify for Podcasters	68101	28.7%	❌	❌	https://podcasters.spotify.com/
Libsyn	12802	5.4%	❌	❌	https://libsyn.com/
Acast	12720	5.4%	❌	❌	https://www.acast.com/
Podbean	10317	4.3%	❌	❌	https://podbean.com/
iVoox	5722	2.4%	❌	❌	https://www.ivoox.com
Wordpress	5336	2.2%	✅	✅	https://wordpress.org/
Simplecast	5177	2.2%	❌	❌	https://simplecast.com
Ausha	4936	2.1%	❌	❌	https://www.ausha.co/
Podigee	4708	2.0%	❌	❌	https://www.podigee.com
Captivate.fm	3593	1.5%	❌	❌	https://www.captivate.fm/
Transistor	3334	1.4%	❌	❌	https://transistor.fm/
RSS.com	2405	1.0%	❌	❌	https://rss.com/
RedCircle	1888	0.8%	❌	❌	https://redcircle.com/
ART19	1870	0.8%	❌	❌	https://art19.com/
mave podcasts	1775	0.7%	❌	❌	https://mave.digital/
Podomatic	1626	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podomatic.com/
podcaster.de	1586	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podcaster.de/
Blubrry	1469	0.6%	❌	❌	https://blubrry.com/
Audiomeans	1228	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.audiomeans.fr/
Squarespace	1176	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.squarespace.com/
Substack	1023	0.4%	❌	❌	https://substack.com/
pod.space	907	0.4%	❌	❌	https://pod.space/
Podlove	863	0.4%	✅	✅	https://podlove.org/
LetsCast.fm	761	0.3%	❌	❌	https://letscast.fm/
Podcastics	717	0.3%	❌	❌	https://www.podcastics.com/en/podcast-hosting/
Castos	688	0.3%	❌	❌	https://castos.com/
podCloud	578	0.2%	❌	❌	https://podcloud.fr/
Fireside	478	0.2%	❌	❌	https://fireside.fm/
Feeder	381	0.2%	❌	✅	https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
JulepHosting	369	0.2%	❌	❌	https://www.julep.de/
Podcast Generator	165	0.1%	✅	✅	https://podcastgenerator.net/