July 03, 2025

Fewer podcast episodes published in June

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The total number of new podcast episodes published in June was 4.7% fewer than in May on a normalised basis, says Livewire. Spotify for Creators saw a small decrease, but still retained its leading market share of 26.6% of new episodes. Spreaker (at 15%) and Buzzsprout (at 8.7%) saw increases in share, as did Podbean and Libsyn. Amazon Cloudfront still serves the majority of podcast episodes (now 60.79% of them).

Buzzsprout’s monthly stats report for June suggests a small narrowing of Apple Podcasts’s lead in terms of total downloads. The podcast host saw a -4.5% drop in total downloads (June has -3.3% fewer days than May).

Transistor showed Apple Podcasts retake its lead, however.

The Podcast Standards Project has added Anytime Player as a certified app, and podcast hosting providers Iono, Podhome, Podtoo and Alitu as certified hosting providers. The full list and certification criteria is on Github, and on the project website; the group aims to advocate for new features that improve the open podcasting ecosystem for both listeners and creators.

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