Data / Podcasts
Active podcasts by category and language: 420,073 shows (2026)
420,073 podcasts in the Podcast Index published an episode in the last 90 days to October 31, 2026. 167,924 publish at least weekly. The lists below give each show's owner, episode count, last episode, publishing frequency, website and feed, read on November 3, 2026.
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By language
| Language | Active shows | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| English | 277,644 | 107 |
| German | 24,960 | 94 |
| Spanish | 23,942 | 89 |
| French | 18,138 | 92 |
| Chinese | 12,227 | 83 |
| Japanese | 11,565 | 85 |
| Italian | 7,018 | 76 |
| Portuguese | 7,077 | 68 |
| Dutch | 4,282 | 66 |
| Russian | 3,158 | 67 |
| Swedish | 3,292 | 61 |
| Hebrew | 2,379 | 42 |
| Polish | 2,289 | 53 |
| Danish | 1,967 | 48 |
| Czech | 2,189 | 50 |
| Norwegian | 1,737 | 40 |
| Turkish | 1,398 | 32 |
| Arabic | 1,304 | 37 |
| Persian | 1,015 | 33 |
| Hungarian | 905 | 27 |
| Slovak | 960 | 22 |
| Catalan | 901 | 19 |
| Finnish | 711 | 22 |
| Korean | 570 | 20 |
| Greek | 590 | 21 |
| Estonian | 350 | 11 |
| Hindi | 441 | 14 |
| Vietnamese | 429 | 12 |
| Ukrainian | 385 | 12 |
| Indonesian | 327 | 9 |
| Slovenian | 404 | 12 |
| Romanian | 288 | 8 |
| Thai | 240 | 13 |
| Afrikaans | 212 | 7 |
| Icelandic | 243 | 8 |
| Lithuanian | 208 | 7 |
| Tamil | 158 | 6 |
| Serbian | 180 | 3 |
| Bulgarian | 154 | 4 |
| Latvian | 167 | 4 |
| Filipino | 77 | 2 |
| Filipino | 71 | 2 |
| Malayalam | 95 | 2 |
| Telugu | 68 | 2 |
| Urdu | 61 | 2 |
By category
How often active shows publish
| Publishes | Shows |
|---|---|
| Daily | 26,129 |
| Several times a week | 25,114 |
| Weekly | 116,681 |
| Every two weeks | 116,878 |
| Monthly | 93,417 |
| Less than monthly | 24,046 |
| All episodes at once | 3,492 |
| One episode | 14,316 |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from Podcast Index. Free for any use (the Podcast Index public database). Episode counts and dates are as each show's feed reports them to the Podcast Index. How often a show publishes is the average gap between its first and its latest episode. The index keeps at most 1,000 episodes of a show. Owner names are printed as the feed prints them. Contact addresses are not shown here. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.