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	84896	32.8%	❓	❓
Spotify for Podcasters	75979	29.4%	❌	❌	https://podcasters.spotify.com/
Acast	14144	5.5%	❌	❌	https://www.acast.com/
Libsyn	13292	5.1%	❌	❌	https://libsyn.com/
Podbean	11203	4.3%	❌	❌	https://podbean.com/
iVoox	6139	2.4%	❌	❌	https://www.ivoox.com
Simplecast	5686	2.2%	❌	❌	https://simplecast.com
Wordpress	5567	2.2%	✅	✅	https://wordpress.org/
Ausha	5463	2.1%	❌	❌	https://www.ausha.co/
Podigee	5060	2.0%	❌	❌	https://www.podigee.com
Captivate.fm	4061	1.6%	❌	❌	https://www.captivate.fm/
Transistor	3674	1.4%	❌	❌	https://transistor.fm/
RSS.com	2729	1.1%	❌	❌	https://rss.com/
ART19	2220	0.9%	❌	❌	https://art19.com/
RedCircle	2067	0.8%	❌	❌	https://redcircle.com/
mave podcasts	1938	0.7%	❌	❌	https://mave.digital/
Podomatic	1722	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podomatic.com/
podcaster.de	1697	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podcaster.de/
Blubrry	1579	0.6%	❌	❌	https://blubrry.com/
Audiomeans	1377	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.audiomeans.fr/
Substack	1297	0.5%	❌	❌	https://substack.com/
Squarespace	1240	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.squarespace.com/
Podlove	884	0.3%	✅	✅	https://podlove.org/
LetsCast.fm	840	0.3%	❌	❌	https://letscast.fm/
Podcastics	788	0.3%	❌	❌	https://www.podcastics.com/en/podcast-hosting/
Castos	758	0.3%	❌	❌	https://castos.com/
podCloud	624	0.2%	❌	❌	https://podcloud.fr/
Fireside	491	0.2%	❌	❌	https://fireside.fm/
Feeder	412	0.2%	❌	✅	https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
JulepHosting	403	0.2%	❌	❌	https://www.julep.de/
pod.space	210	0.1%	❌	❌	https://pod.space/
Podcast Generator	167	0.1%	✅	✅	https://podcastgenerator.net/