The podcast ecosystem, counted every week.
Podcast Index publishes only this week’s snapshot. We archive every one, forever, and publish what they add up to — each figure stamped with the Vintage it came from, so a number you cite stays true to its date.
The figures on this page come from the latest weekly Vintage, and none has been ingested yet. The Tools below are live all the same — they will carry numbers as soon as the first weekly Snapshot lands, which happens on a Monday.
How many podcasts are there?
The most asked number in the space, with its definition stated — listed, ever listed, or actively publishing — and filterable by language.
Hosting market share
Which companies host the world’s feeds, attributed through our own published Host mapping — never the dataset’s opaque host column.
Stats explorer
Count any slice of the index — language, category, activity, host — and take the citation with you. Aggregates only, never feed rows.
Podcasts by language
Every declared language ranked with its activity rate — Simplified and Traditional Chinese counted separately.
The podfade census
Do 90% of podcasts really quit after three episodes? Every living feed’s episode count, checked against the folklore.
The State of Podcasting, August 2026
How many podcasts exist, when they were made, what language they speak, who hosts them, and how many episodes they survive. The inaugural monthly edition, on a single Vintage; month-over-month deltas begin with the next edition.
Every figure carries a Vintage
Nothing here is real-time, and we never say it is. A Tool shows the latest Vintage; a Report keeps the one it was published from.
Hosts are attributed, not inherited
A versioned mapping of domain patterns, acquisitions attributed explicitly, published as the methodology. The dataset’s own host column is a cross-check, never the source.
Aggregates, not feed rows
We serve counts and trends. For a single feed, Podcast Index’s own API is fresher than ours could ever be — so we send you there.