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	70448	34.1%	❓	❓
Spotify for Podcasters	56869	27.5%	❌	❌	https://podcasters.spotify.com/
Libsyn	11753	5.7%	❌	❌	https://libsyn.com/
Acast	10797	5.2%	❌	❌	https://www.acast.com/
Podbean	9040	4.4%	❌	❌	https://podbean.com/
iVoox	5169	2.5%	❌	❌	https://www.ivoox.com
Wordpress	4852	2.3%	✅	✅	https://wordpress.org/
Simplecast	4369	2.1%	❌	❌	https://simplecast.com
Podigee	4306	2.1%	❌	❌	https://www.podigee.com
Ausha	4283	2.1%	❌	❌	https://www.ausha.co/
Captivate.fm	2970	1.4%	❌	❌	https://www.captivate.fm/
Transistor	2865	1.4%	❌	❌	https://transistor.fm/
RSS.com	1983	1.0%	❌	❌	https://rss.com/
ART19	1679	0.8%	❌	❌	https://art19.com/
RedCircle	1603	0.8%	❌	❌	https://redcircle.com/
mave podcasts	1458	0.7%	❌	❌	https://mave.digital/
podcaster.de	1440	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podcaster.de/
Podomatic	1420	0.7%	❌	❌	https://www.podomatic.com/
Blubrry	1228	0.6%	❌	❌	https://blubrry.com/
Squarespace	1071	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.squarespace.com/
Audiomeans	1008	0.5%	❌	❌	https://www.audiomeans.fr/
Podlove	794	0.4%	✅	✅	https://podlove.org/
pod.space	743	0.4%	❌	❌	https://pod.space/
Substack	736	0.4%	❌	❌	https://substack.com/
LetsCast.fm	658	0.3%	❌	❌	https://letscast.fm/
Podcastics	634	0.3%	❌	❌	https://www.podcastics.com/en/podcast-hosting/
Castos	614	0.3%	❌	❌	https://castos.com/
podCloud	519	0.3%	❌	❌	https://podcloud.fr/
Fireside	453	0.2%	❌	❌	https://fireside.fm/
JulepHosting	342	0.2%	❌	❌	https://www.julep.de/
Feeder	337	0.2%	❌	✅	https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/
Podcast Generator	147	0.1%	✅	✅	https://podcastgenerator.net/