Podcast hosting market share

Which companies host the world’s podcast feeds, counted from the full Podcast Index feed set and attributed through PodHood’s own published Host mapping.

Vintage2026-08-17
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Next Vintage 2026-08-24
40.4%
of the world’s 4,711,475 podcast feeds are hosted by Spotify1,902,970 feeds · Vintage 2026-08-17 · every feed this Vintage carries
Runner-upSpreaker 12.0%28.4pp behind
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Every feed this Vintage carries. Feeds the index has marked dead are a separate list, not part of this dataset.

Hosts, ranked

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1Spotify40.4%
2Self-hosted / other12.8%
3Spreaker12.0%
4Buzzsprout5.5%
5SoundCloud4.1%
6iVoox3.9%
7RSS.com3.8%
8Podbean2.3%
9Libsyn1.6%
10Podomatic1.3%
11Acast1.2%
12Castbox1.1%
13Blubrry0.9%
14Internet Archive0.9%
15Unknown0.7%
16Captivate0.7%
17Hubhopper0.7%
18Megaphone0.7%
19Transistor0.7%
20RedCircle0.6%
21Firstory0.4%
22Omny Studio0.4%
23Ximalaya0.4%
24Substack0.4%
25Podigee0.4%
26Ausha0.4%
27SoundOn0.3%
28Riverside0.3%
29Simplecast0.3%
30Squarespace0.3%
31Mave0.3%
32Xiaoyuzhou FM0.2%
33Castos0.2%
34Audioboom0.1%

Attribution

Named hostsThe 32 hosts the mapping covers. Naming more is an editorial decision, not a data one.86.4%
Self-hosted / otherComputed by subtraction. The long tail never needs classifying, which is what keeps the mapping small.12.8%
UnknownNo usable domain on the feed. Counted, never silently folded into a host.0.7%
Cross-check divergence4.2%
Feeds where Podcast Index’s own host column disagrees with our mapping. We publish the rate; we never use that column as the source.Host mapping methodology →

The Archive behind this number

5 Vintages archived · weekly from 2026-08-17
2020-09-25
2021-02-01
2021-06-24
2026-08-17
2026-08-24
5 Vintages are archived, 3 of them recovered from 2020–21 dumps. That is a provenance record, not a trend — so we don’t draw one. Weekly Vintages accrue from 2026-08-17; this panel becomes a chart at 8.

How this is measured

What is counted as a feed?

Every row of the Podcast Index feed set in this Vintage — 4,711,475 feeds — with no sampling and no minimum-episode filter.

How is a host attributed?

Through PodHood’s versioned Host mapping of domain patterns, including explicit acquisition attributions — Anchor counts as Spotify. Only the named hosts are classified; everything else falls out by subtraction.

How current is this number?

It is the 2026-08-17 Vintage, republished weekly. Nothing here is real-time, and a figure you cite today keeps its Vintage stamp for as long as you cite it.

Cite this figure

PodHood Insights, "Podcast hosting market share", Vintage 2026-08-17. Retrieved from podhood.com/insights/hosting-market-share
The CSV carries the same Vintage stamp in its header, so a number lifted out of this page never loses the date it was true on.

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