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	81568	33.2%	❓	❓
Spotify for Podcasters	71228	29.0%	❌	❌	https://podcasters.spotify.com/
Acast	13252	5.4%	❌	❌	https://www.acast.com/
Libsyn	13019	5.3%	❌	❌	https://libsyn.com/
Podbean	10681	4.3%	❌	❌	https://podbean.com/
iVoox	5896	2.4%	❌	❌	https://www.ivoox.com
Wordpress	5459	2.2%	✅	✅	https://wordpress.org/
Simplecast	5305	2.2%	❌	❌	https://simplecast.com
Ausha	5155	2.1%	❌	❌	https://www.ausha.co/
Podigee	4850	2.0%	❌	❌	https://www.podigee.com
Captivate.fm	3785	1.5%	❌	❌	https://www.captivate.fm/
Transistor	3463	1.4%	❌	❌	https://transistor.fm/
RSS.com	2561	1.0%	❌	❌	https://rss.com/
RedCircle	1964	0.8%	❌	❌	https://redcircle.com/
ART19	1955	0.8%	❌	❌	https://art19.com/
mave podcasts	1832	0.7%	❌	❌	https://mave.digital/
Podomatic	1663	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podomatic.com/
podcaster.de	1645	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podcaster.de/
Blubrry	1503	0.6%	❌	❌	https://blubrry.com/
Audiomeans	1287	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.audiomeans.fr/
Squarespace	1200	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.squarespace.com/
Substack	1122	0.5%	❌	❌	https://substack.com/
Podlove	872	0.4%	✅	✅	https://podlove.org/
LetsCast.fm	794	0.3%	❌	❌	https://letscast.fm/
Podcastics	740	0.3%	❌	❌	https://www.podcastics.com/en/podcast-hosting/
Castos	716	0.3%	❌	❌	https://castos.com/
podCloud	597	0.2%	❌	❌	https://podcloud.fr/
Fireside	481	0.2%	❌	❌	https://fireside.fm/
Feeder	397	0.2%	❌	✅	https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
JulepHosting	374	0.2%	❌	❌	https://www.julep.de/
pod.space	256	0.1%	❌	❌	https://pod.space/
Podcast Generator	166	0.1%	✅	✅	https://podcastgenerator.net/