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	78057	33.6%	❓	❓
Spotify for Podcasters	65665	28.3%	❌	❌	https://podcasters.spotify.com/
Libsyn	12827	5.5%	❌	❌	https://libsyn.com/
Acast	12164	5.2%	❌	❌	https://www.acast.com/
Podbean	10197	4.4%	❌	❌	https://podbean.com/
iVoox	5636	2.4%	❌	❌	https://www.ivoox.com
Wordpress	5300	2.3%	✅	✅	https://wordpress.org/
Simplecast	4912	2.1%	❌	❌	https://simplecast.com
Ausha	4839	2.1%	❌	❌	https://www.ausha.co/
Podigee	4637	2.0%	❌	❌	https://www.podigee.com
Captivate.fm	3412	1.5%	❌	❌	https://www.captivate.fm/
Transistor	3280	1.4%	❌	❌	https://transistor.fm/
RSS.com	2342	1.0%	❌	❌	https://rss.com/
RedCircle	1832	0.8%	❌	❌	https://redcircle.com/
ART19	1819	0.8%	❌	❌	https://art19.com/
mave podcasts	1719	0.7%	❌	❌	https://mave.digital/
Podomatic	1607	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podomatic.com/
podcaster.de	1563	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podcaster.de/
Blubrry	1342	0.6%	❌	❌	https://blubrry.com/
Squarespace	1174	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.squarespace.com/
Audiomeans	1129	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.audiomeans.fr/
Substack	931	0.4%	❌	❌	https://substack.com/
Podlove	856	0.4%	✅	✅	https://podlove.org/
pod.space	853	0.4%	❌	❌	https://pod.space/
LetsCast.fm	751	0.3%	❌	❌	https://letscast.fm/
Podcastics	697	0.3%	❌	❌	https://www.podcastics.com/en/podcast-hosting/
Castos	674	0.3%	❌	❌	https://castos.com/
podCloud	560	0.2%	❌	❌	https://podcloud.fr/
Fireside	474	0.2%	❌	❌	https://fireside.fm/
Feeder	377	0.2%	❌	✅	https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
JulepHosting	366	0.2%	❌	❌	https://www.julep.de/
Podcast Generator	164	0.1%	✅	✅	https://podcastgenerator.net/