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About Podcastquery
Podcastquery is a research site covering the podcast industry. It counts podcasts, episodes and networks by category, language, country and hosting platform, and publishes the numbers as count pages and reports. The figures come from public podcast feeds and directories, collected and rechecked by Podcastquery.
What Podcastquery does
Count pages
Counts of podcasts by hosting platform, language, category, episode count and start year, with a headline count at /how-many-podcasts.
Charts and lists
The Apple top 100 of 18 storefronts joined to the feed data, and ranked lists of the longest-running podcasts and largest networks.
Research
Reports and statistics at /research, each with a CSV of its rows.
Data
- Feeds: rows in the Podcast Index dump of 16 August 2026, 4,711,475 in all.
- Active: newest episode within 90 days of 2026-08-16, 437,693 feeds.
- Hosting platform: the normalised host domain of the feed URL.
- Start year: the year of the oldest episode.
- Apple top 100: the top-100 chart of 18 Apple storefronts fetched 6 September 2026, joined to the dump on itunesId, 1,387 shows.
The team behind Podcastquery
Jakob Greenfeld, founder. He runs Podcastquery and builds its dataset. jakobgreenfeld.com · X
How Podcastquery works
Counts are computed from the Podcast Index dump and the Apple charts named above. A share is published only when its base holds at least 100 feeds. Sources, definitions, publishing rules and sanity checks are on the method page. Corrections go to hello@podcastquery.com.
Frequently asked questions
Is Podcastquery free?
Yes. Every page is free to read, with no account or paywall.
What counts as an active podcast?
A feed whose newest episode is within 90 days of the dump date, 16 August 2026.
Can I rebuild the numbers?
The method page has a section on rebuilding the numbers, and datasets are published on GitHub.