The Podcast Census 2026

How many podcasts are hosted on Captivate?

Captivate hosts 31,157 podcasts in the Podcast Index, 0.7% of all podcasts, and 8,184 of them published an episode in the last 90 days. That is 26.3% still active, 2.8 times the 9.4% rate for all podcasts. Captivate punches above its size: 2% of active shows against 0.7% of all of them.

By the Slice research teamUpdated How we did it

Get this page’s dataThe Podcast Census 2026
  • 31,157shows listed
  • 8,184active in the last 90 days
  • 26.3%still active (all podcasts: 9.4%)
  • 2%of all active podcasts

How many Captivate podcasts are still active?

8,184 of 31,157: 26.3%. By that measure Captivate ranks 5th of the 17 hosts on these pages for keeping shows alive. It ranks 12th by shows ever listed but 10th by active ones.

Survival by episode count and growth by year are counted for all podcasts together in the census, not host by host, so they are not repeated here.

Captivate: all shows0.7% of all podcastsCaptivate: active shows2% of active podcastsThis page

How big is Captivate compared with other hosts?

Captivate is the 12th-largest host by shows listed, after FeedBurner (52,174).

Show
Acast52,670FeedBurner52,174Captivate31,157This pageTransistor30,551RedCircle28,199
Hosts ranked nearest by shows listed.
Acast52,67010,68520.3%
FeedBurner52,1742,6565.1%
Captivate31,1578,18426.3%
Transistor30,5519,69931.7%
RedCircle28,1993,66913%
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How many Captivate feeds look automated?

474 Captivate feeds meet the census's test for mass-produced podcasts (at least 100 episodes, an average of 4 or more a day, over at least 30 days; or one author name on 100 or more shows first seen by Podcast Index in the same year), 2.1% of the 22,165 such feeds first indexed since 2023.

Questions

How many podcasts are on Captivate?

31,157 in the Podcast Index dump of 26 September 2026, after removing duplicates and empty feeds. 8,184 published in the 90 days before it.

What share of podcasts hosted on Captivate are active?

26.3%, against 9.4% of all 4,391,041 podcasts.

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Where do these numbers come from?

Podcast Index public database, dump of 26 September 2026, cleaned by Slice to 4,391,041 shows (duplicates, empty feeds, clones and test feeds removed). Active means an episode in the 90 days before the dump.

n = 31,157 Captivate podcasts, 8,184 active. Last updated 2 October 2026.

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