The Podcast Census 2026

How many podcasts are hosted on Simplecast?

Simplecast hosts 20,398 podcasts in the Podcast Index, 0.5% of all podcasts, and 6,058 of them published an episode in the last 90 days. That is 29.7% still active, 3.2 times the 9.4% rate for all podcasts. Simplecast punches above its size: 1.5% of active shows against 0.5% of all of them.

By the Slice research teamUpdated How we did it

Get this page’s dataThe Podcast Census 2026
  • 20,398shows listed
  • 6,058active in the last 90 days
  • 29.7%still active (all podcasts: 9.4%)
  • 1.5%of all active podcasts

How many Simplecast podcasts are still active?

6,058 of 20,398: 29.7%. By that measure Simplecast ranks 4th of the 17 hosts on these pages for keeping shows alive. It ranks 16th by shows ever listed but 12th 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.

Simplecast: all shows0.5% of all podcastsSimplecast: active shows1.5% of active podcastsThis page

How big is Simplecast compared with other hosts?

Simplecast is the 16th-largest host by shows listed, after Megaphone (25,960).

Show
RedCircle28,199Megaphone25,960Simplecast20,398This pageFirstory20,378
Hosts ranked nearest by shows listed.
RedCircle28,1993,66913%
Megaphone25,9608,60433.1%
Simplecast20,3986,05829.7%
Firstory20,3783,39616.7%
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Questions

How many podcasts are on Simplecast?

20,398 in the Podcast Index dump of 26 September 2026, after removing duplicates and empty feeds. 6,058 published in the 90 days before it.

What share of podcasts hosted on Simplecast are active?

29.7%, 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 = 20,398 Simplecast podcasts, 6,058 active. Last updated 2 October 2026.

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