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/