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/