How many podcasts are there?

Posted by lyceum under Social Media
From https://podnews.net 982 days ago
Made Hot by: problogger78 on March 18, 2022 9:36 am

How many podcasts are there? That’s not quite as simple to answer as you might think - we should have a discussion about what the definition is of a podcast before we can really give an answer of how many there are.

Spotify suggest they have 3.6m podcasts on their platform (in Mar 2022). You have to submit your podcast to Spotify, but it’s a relatively simple process. Spotify’s catalogue includes some exclusive shows that aren’t available as open RSS feeds.

The Podcast Index is built from (in the main) discovering open podcast RSS feeds on the web. They claim they have 4.2m podcasts in their index (in Mar 2022).

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Written by Inspiretothrive
981 days ago

Wow Martin, that is an incredible amount of podcasts! More than I had guessed.

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Written by lyceum
980 days ago

Lisa: Yeah! Plenty of podcasts out there! I started podcasting in 2006 and around 90 000 podcasters since then are still podcasting in 2022.

All the Best,

Martin

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