The Podcast Census 2026

How many podcasts are hosted on RSS.com?

RSS.com hosts 169,690 podcasts in the Podcast Index, 3.9% of all podcasts, and 16,855 of them published an episode in the last 90 days. 9.9% are still active, close to the 9.4% for all podcasts.

By the Slice research teamUpdated How we did it

Get this page’s dataThe Podcast Census 2026
  • 169,690shows listed
  • 16,855active in the last 90 days
  • 9.9%still active (all podcasts: 9.4%)
  • 4.1%of all active podcasts

How many RSS.com podcasts are still active?

16,855 of 169,690: 9.9%. By that measure RSS.com ranks 11th of the 17 hosts on these pages for keeping shows alive.

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.

RSS.com: all shows3.9% of all podcastsRSS.com: active shows4.1% of active podcastsThis page

How big is RSS.com compared with other hosts?

RSS.com is the 5th-largest host by shows listed, after iVoox (176,391).

Show
SoundCloud182,226iVoox176,391RSS.com169,690This pageBuzzsprout123,188Podbean97,472
Hosts ranked nearest by shows listed.
SoundCloud182,2267,8854.3%
iVoox176,3914,5742.6%
RSS.com169,69016,8559.9%
Buzzsprout123,18846,40237.7%
Podbean97,47221,54522.1%
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Questions

How many podcasts are on RSS.com?

169,690 in the Podcast Index dump of 26 September 2026, after removing duplicates and empty feeds. 16,855 published in the 90 days before it.

What share of podcasts hosted on RSS.com are active?

9.9%, 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 = 169,690 RSS.com podcasts, 16,855 active. Last updated 2 October 2026.

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