Podcast Index
The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
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Latest news
- May 4: The Podcast Index has launched a new API endpoint to allow podcast apps to upload the number of total followers of a feed, to enable better recommendations for all.
- Apr 27: 233 million people live in Nigeria - so podcasting could be massive in the country. As Tony Onwuchekwa writes for Podnews today for another of our market focus articles, 88% of Nigerian podcasts are in English; but almost a third have either podfaded or are on pause. The Nigerian Podcast Index has more data on shows produced in, or for, Nigeria; and highlights where the industry is strongest.
- Apr 20: The New Feeds Report from the Podcast Index is powered by this CSV file. In the last 24 hours, another 217 new feeds from Inception Point AI, mostly in Portuguese and Spanish.
- Apr 15:
Is podcasting being flooded with AI slop? For new shows, it seems that normal, human-made podcasts are now in the minority, according to the Podcast Index. Visible on the Podcast Index's New Feeds Report, at the time of writing it shows only 44.6% of new shows in the last 24 hours were "likely legitimate", with 45.7% potentially produced by AI. The tool spots AI-generated shows by using AI itself. The Podcast Index is now making available a
/recent/problematicAPI, which details new podcast shows that have been marked as spam, phishing, or "low-effort AI", which may help podcast hosting companies and apps curate their feeds. - Apr 13: The Podcast Index - new feeds report is a new look into the Podcast Index. At the time of writing, it shows 994 new feeds were added Saturday-Sunday: 120 suspected of being spam or gambling; just 25% listed in Apple Podcasts. Inception Point AI seems to have produced 132 new shows that day. (Shows - not episodes).
Data credits: Podnews newsletter