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 82565 33.1%
Spotify for Podcasters 72791 29.2% https://podcasters.spotify.com/
Acast 13475 5.4% https://www.acast.com/
Libsyn 13097 5.2% https://libsyn.com/
Podbean 10829 4.3% https://podbean.com/
iVoox 5980 2.4% https://www.ivoox.com
Simplecast 5480 2.2% https://simplecast.com
Wordpress 5474 2.2% https://wordpress.org/
Ausha 5229 2.1% https://www.ausha.co/
Podigee 4915 2.0% https://www.podigee.com
Captivate.fm 3849 1.5% https://www.captivate.fm/
Transistor 3509 1.4% https://transistor.fm/
RSS.com 2607 1.0% https://rss.com/
ART19 1996 0.8% https://art19.com/
RedCircle 1980 0.8% https://redcircle.com/
mave podcasts 1862 0.7% https://mave.digital/
Podomatic 1697 0.7% https://www.podomatic.com/
podcaster.de 1656 0.7% https://www.podcaster.de/
Blubrry 1538 0.6% https://blubrry.com/
Audiomeans 1302 0.5% https://www.audiomeans.fr/
Squarespace 1213 0.5% https://www.squarespace.com/
Substack 1159 0.5% https://substack.com/
Podlove 877 0.4% https://podlove.org/
LetsCast.fm 808 0.3% https://letscast.fm/
Podcastics 762 0.3% https://www.podcastics.com/en/podcast-hosting/
Castos 724 0.3% https://castos.com/
podCloud 605 0.2% https://podcloud.fr/
Fireside 482 0.2% https://fireside.fm/
Feeder 399 0.2% https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
JulepHosting 385 0.2% https://www.julep.de/
pod.space 231 0.1% https://pod.space/
Podcast Generator 166 0.1% https://podcastgenerator.net/