The Podcast Census 2026

How many podcasts are hosted on Spreaker?

Spreaker hosts 543,282 podcasts in the Podcast Index, 12.4% of all podcasts, and 39,535 of them published an episode in the last 90 days. 7.3% are still active, close to the 9.4% for all podcasts. Its share of active shows (9.6%) is well below its share of all shows ever started.

By the Slice research teamUpdated How we did it

Get this page’s dataThe Podcast Census 2026
  • 543,282shows listed
  • 39,535active in the last 90 days
  • 7.3%still active (all podcasts: 9.4%)
  • 9.6%of all active podcasts

How many Spreaker podcasts are still active?

39,535 of 543,282: 7.3%. By that measure Spreaker ranks 12th of the 17 hosts on these pages for keeping shows alive. It ranks 2nd by shows ever listed but drops to 3rd 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.

Spreaker: all shows12.4% of all podcastsSpreaker: active shows9.6% of active podcastsThis page

How big is Spreaker compared with other hosts?

Spreaker is the 2nd-largest host by shows listed, after Spotify for Creators (Anchor) (1.9 million).

Show
Spotify for Creators (Ancho…1,895,372Spreaker543,282This pageSoundCloud182,226iVoox176,391RSS.com169,690
Hosts ranked nearest by shows listed.
Spotify for Creators (Anchor)1,895,37298,7655.2%
Spreaker543,28239,5357.3%
SoundCloud182,2267,8854.3%
iVoox176,3914,5742.6%
RSS.com169,69016,8559.9%
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How many Spreaker feeds look automated?

7,047 Spreaker 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), 31.8% of the 22,165 such feeds first indexed since 2023.

Questions

How many podcasts are on Spreaker?

543,282 in the Podcast Index dump of 26 September 2026, after removing duplicates and empty feeds. 39,535 published in the 90 days before it.

What share of podcasts hosted on Spreaker are active?

7.3%, 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 = 543,282 Spreaker podcasts, 39,535 active. Last updated 2 October 2026.

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