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/