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	78478	33.6%	❓	❓
Spotify for Podcasters	66168	28.3%	❌	❌	https://podcasters.spotify.com/
Libsyn	12888	5.5%	❌	❌	https://libsyn.com/
Acast	12242	5.2%	❌	❌	https://www.acast.com/
Podbean	10261	4.4%	❌	❌	https://podbean.com/
iVoox	5652	2.4%	❌	❌	https://www.ivoox.com
Wordpress	5326	2.3%	✅	✅	https://wordpress.org/
Simplecast	4935	2.1%	❌	❌	https://simplecast.com
Ausha	4870	2.1%	❌	❌	https://www.ausha.co/
Podigee	4651	2.0%	❌	❌	https://www.podigee.com
Captivate.fm	3445	1.5%	❌	❌	https://www.captivate.fm/
Transistor	3296	1.4%	❌	❌	https://transistor.fm/
RSS.com	2360	1.0%	❌	❌	https://rss.com/
RedCircle	1846	0.8%	❌	❌	https://redcircle.com/
ART19	1818	0.8%	❌	❌	https://art19.com/
mave podcasts	1741	0.7%	❌	❌	https://mave.digital/
Podomatic	1620	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podomatic.com/
podcaster.de	1568	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podcaster.de/
Blubrry	1352	0.6%	❌	❌	https://blubrry.com/
Squarespace	1177	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.squarespace.com/
Audiomeans	1134	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.audiomeans.fr/
Substack	941	0.4%	❌	❌	https://substack.com/
Podlove	860	0.4%	✅	✅	https://podlove.org/
pod.space	853	0.4%	❌	❌	https://pod.space/
LetsCast.fm	760	0.3%	❌	❌	https://letscast.fm/
Podcastics	701	0.3%	❌	❌	https://www.podcastics.com/en/podcast-hosting/
Castos	678	0.3%	❌	❌	https://castos.com/
podCloud	561	0.2%	❌	❌	https://podcloud.fr/
Fireside	476	0.2%	❌	❌	https://fireside.fm/
Feeder	378	0.2%	❌	✅	https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
JulepHosting	366	0.2%	❌	❌	https://www.julep.de/
Podcast Generator	166	0.1%	✅	✅	https://podcastgenerator.net/