Podcast Index
The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
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- Aug 10: "I look at what AMP wants podcast app developers to do in support of advertisers. Then I look at what podcast app developers are actually doing with advert skipping. One of those will win out. And, it isn't the one that requires tons of first party data collection/reporting and the taking on of privacy liabilities." - so says Dave Jones of the Podcast Index.
- Aug 3: Livewire episode data for July appears to show Spotify for Creators has rebounded back to having a 24% share of all episodes released. Spreaker is on a 2026 record of 13.6%. The increased numbers for Spotify and Spreaker mean that almost all other podcast hosts are showing a decline in share this month, with one exception: new entrant Firstory has shown a significant increase. Having said that, Podcast Index's public data shows that many new shows from Firstory are chinese-language spam promoting coupon codes.
- Jul 20:
"Forget streaming payments. Streaming payments is just not going to work. It's over." Speaking in the Podcasting 2.0 podcast this week, Adam Curry and Dave Jones said they'd close the Podcast Index "lightning node" since it was costing more to run than it earned, and urged podcasters to focus on a clean, simple method of support using the
podcast:fundingtag. As of today, Podnews has a simple, clean payment page, via Stripe linked from our RSS feed's funding tag. - May 11: The Podcast Index has published a page detailing all the open public datasets available from the project. Great for researchers, developers, or anyone wanting to understand the podcast space, they're all free.
- May 4: The Podcast Index has launched a new API endpoint to allow podcast apps to upload the number of total followers of a feed, to enable better recommendations for all.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter