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	84706	32.8%	❓	❓
Spotify for Podcasters	75725	29.4%	❌	❌	https://podcasters.spotify.com/
Acast	14098	5.5%	❌	❌	https://www.acast.com/
Libsyn	13267	5.1%	❌	❌	https://libsyn.com/
Podbean	11164	4.3%	❌	❌	https://podbean.com/
iVoox	6128	2.4%	❌	❌	https://www.ivoox.com
Simplecast	5675	2.2%	❌	❌	https://simplecast.com
Wordpress	5563	2.2%	✅	✅	https://wordpress.org/
Ausha	5436	2.1%	❌	❌	https://www.ausha.co/
Podigee	5054	2.0%	❌	❌	https://www.podigee.com
Captivate.fm	4054	1.6%	❌	❌	https://www.captivate.fm/
Transistor	3653	1.4%	❌	❌	https://transistor.fm/
RSS.com	2717	1.1%	❌	❌	https://rss.com/
ART19	2212	0.9%	❌	❌	https://art19.com/
RedCircle	2061	0.8%	❌	❌	https://redcircle.com/
mave podcasts	1926	0.7%	❌	❌	https://mave.digital/
Podomatic	1720	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podomatic.com/
podcaster.de	1696	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podcaster.de/
Blubrry	1576	0.6%	❌	❌	https://blubrry.com/
Audiomeans	1373	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.audiomeans.fr/
Substack	1288	0.5%	❌	❌	https://substack.com/
Squarespace	1237	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.squarespace.com/
Podlove	884	0.3%	✅	✅	https://podlove.org/
LetsCast.fm	839	0.3%	❌	❌	https://letscast.fm/
Podcastics	787	0.3%	❌	❌	https://www.podcastics.com/en/podcast-hosting/
Castos	756	0.3%	❌	❌	https://castos.com/
podCloud	621	0.2%	❌	❌	https://podcloud.fr/
Fireside	491	0.2%	❌	❌	https://fireside.fm/
Feeder	411	0.2%	❌	✅	https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
JulepHosting	402	0.2%	❌	❌	https://www.julep.de/
pod.space	210	0.1%	❌	❌	https://pod.space/
Podcast Generator	167	0.1%	✅	✅	https://podcastgenerator.net/