Podcast Index
The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
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Latest news
- Jan 31: PodcastOne is to switch hosting to Amazon’s ART19. It had been using the relatively unknown Nox Solutions as a podcast host. The Podcast Index suggests Nox Solutions hosts around 1,277 shows - 1,077 of which are with PodcastOne and Launchpadone.
- Jan 29: PodToo has added the Podcast Index “live item tag”, allowing live podcasting, and has introduced a way for its radio clients to achieve greater control over release dates and times for its podcasts.
- Jan 27: Dave Jones from the Podcast Index is looking for your help: first, to stop the Docker logs from “eating all the disk space”; and secondly, to read live stream metadata from Shoutcast streams. There’s more in the Podcasting 2.0 podcast this week.
- Dec 5, 2024: By way of comparison, there are 125,268 video podcasts using open RSS, looking through the Podcast Index data. And 14 billion videos on YouTube.
- Nov 19, 2024: These figures were calculated from Podcast Index data in August, using the dates for the first and last episodes in the feed. Some podcast hosting companies delete free accounts when the free trial ends, so they’ll not appear on this data. The top 5 companies with new shows in January this year were Spotify for Creators, RSS, Buzzsprout, Spreaker and Acast: who between them attracted 60% of new shows in that month.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter