Podcast Index
The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
Website: podcastindex.org
Latest news
- Mar 18: The industry data website Podcast Industry Insights has relaunched, with new data from Apple Podcasts categories as well as the Podcast Index. The information now contains seven years of historical data, and it remains outside of a paywall.
- Mar 3: The Podcast Index tells us that only 55% of podcasts are in English - with Spanish (14%), Portuguese (5.7%), French (2.5%) and German (2.5%) comprising the top 5. Podpage now supports websites in languages other than English - including all the top five.
- Feb 12: Nigerian podcasters are much less likely to "podfade", says new data from the country. The Nigerian Podcast Index has published the first comprehensive snapshot of the country's podcast industry. Spotify for Creators is the #1 podcast host in the country, and over 90% of shows are in English, with local languages achieving an 8% share.
- Feb 2:
Fun fact: in the Podcast Index, there are 112,200 duplicates (showing the same title and author). (There are a surprising amount of duplicates in Apple Podcasts and Spotify as well.) Algorithmic search normally hides the duplicates - but as the number of podcasts grow, so will the number of duplicates too. Widespread use of the
podcast:guidcould help this. - Jan 19: Fun fact - it's valid for podcasts to include PDF files as enclosures instead of audio files - Apple Podcasts says so on their website, despite not actually supporting PDFs any more. Breaking Bad News is an example of a podcast that includes PDFs, and we can find 1,718 shows with PDFs in the Podcast Index. We can't find any podcast apps that support PDFs, though, so we probably wouldn't recommend it, and we'd probably like to ask Apple to officially remove support for PDF on this page. (But we've added PDF support to our podcast episode viewer, like this, so...)
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