The Podcast Census 2026
How many Spanish podcasts are there?
There are 675,996 Spanish-language podcasts in the Podcast Index, 15.4% of all podcasts, and 23,729 of them published an episode in the last 90 days. Only 3.5% are still active, against 9.4% of all podcasts: most Spanish podcasts have stopped. Its share of active shows (5.7%) is well below its share of all shows ever started.
- 675,996shows listed
- 23,729active in the last 90 days
- 3.5%still active (all podcasts: 9.4%)
- 5.7%of all active podcasts
How many Spanish podcasts are still going?
23,729 of 675,996: 3.5%. By that measure Spanish ranks 11th of the 12 languages 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 language by language, so they are not repeated here.
How does Spanish compare with other podcast languages?
Spanish is the 2nd-largest language by shows listed, after English (2.39 million).
| English | 2,394,940 | 272,941 | 11.4% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 675,996 | 23,729 | 3.5% |
| Portuguese | 259,055 | 7,145 | 2.8% |
| French | 116,638 | 17,381 | 14.9% |
| German | 114,343 | 24,610 | 21.5% |
How many Spanish podcasts are automated?
1,116 Spanish-language 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), 5% of the 22,165 such feeds first indexed since 2023.
Questions
How many Spanish podcasts are there?
675,996 in the Podcast Index dump of 26 September 2026, after removing duplicates and empty feeds. 23,729 published in the 90 days before it.
What share of Spanish-language podcasts are active?
3.5%, 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 = 675,996 Spanish podcasts, 23,729 active. Last updated 2 October 2026.
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