How many podcasts exist?
Internet hard Data from 2024
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The answer
4,200,000 podcasts
Roughly 4.2M.
There are around 4.2 million podcasts, but fewer than 400,000 have published an episode in the last 90 days. The rest are "podfaded" — the median podcast never gets past its seventh episode.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Podcast Index / Apple Podcasts directory data |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | podcasts |
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