Podcastquery is a research site covering the podcast industry.

It counts podcasts, episodes and networks by category, language, country and hosting platform, and publishes the numbers as count pages and reports.

4,711,475 podcast feeds, 437,693 active in the last 90 days. Podcast Index dump of 16 August 2026, Apple charts of 6 September 2026.

Source: Podcastquery, August 2026

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Anchor hosts 40% of all podcasts and 15% of Apple's top-100 charts 2026-09-08. Anchor (Spotify for Creators) hosts 40.46% of the 4,711,475 feeds in the Podcast Index but only 15.36% of 1,387 Apple top-100 chart shows, while Megaphone hosts 0.57% of feeds and 17.23% of the same chart shows.
Anchor hosts 40.5% of all podcast feeds and 15.4% of Apple top-100 chart shows, Megaphone 0.57% and 17.2% Source: Podcastquery, August 2026. Apple charts: Podcastquery, September 2026.
4,711,475 podcast feeds, 437,693 of them active in the last 90 days Source: Podcastquery, August 2026
1,015,023 podcasts started in 2020, 2.6% of them still publishing Source: Podcastquery, August 2026

Platform	Feeds	Share of all feeds	Active in 90 days	Apple top-100 shows	Share of chart shows
Anchor (Spotify for Creators)	1,906,462	40.5%	100,382	213	15.4%
Spreaker	563,601	12.0%	45,418	50	3.6%
Buzzsprout	270,067	5.7%	48,336	11	0.79%
SoundCloud	188,268	4.0%	8,346	5	0.36%
iVoox	182,946	3.9%	5,295	14	1.0%
RSS.com	178,058	3.8%	16,830	5	0.36%
Podbean	103,538	2.2%	23,312	8	0.58%
Libsyn	64,259	1.4%	15,855	23	1.7%
Acast	55,564	1.2%	11,323	158	11.4%
Castbox	51,149	1.1%	388	0	0.00%
Captivate	31,679	0.67%	8,405	9	0.65%
Transistor	31,262	0.66%	9,796	<5	n/a
Megaphone	26,809	0.57%	8,967	239	17.2%
Omny Studio	20,221	0.43%	6,570	136	9.8%
Simplecast	20,508	0.44%	5,975	68	4.9%
Audioboom	6,020	0.13%	1,173	9	0.65%
Podigee	18,127	0.38%	7,320	31	2.2%

Source: Podcastquery, August 2026. Chart shows: Podcastquery, September 2026.