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What is the best podcast platform?

by YPB Team

Open RSS players, music services that arrived late, and the video platform nobody expected to matter here.

  1. Spotify — ranked #11
    Spotify
    Bought its way to the front of podcasting with exclusive deals.
  2. YouTube — ranked #22
    YouTube
    Podcasts with faces, which turned out to be what many listeners wanted.
  3. Apple Podcasts — ranked #33
    Apple Podcasts
    The directory that defined the medium and still anchors its RSS plumbing.
  4. Pocket Casts — ranked #44
    Pocket Casts
    A power-user player with the best playback controls.
  5. Overcast — ranked #55
    Overcast
    An independent iOS player known for its smart speed feature.
  6. Amazon Music — ranked #66
    Amazon Music
    Podcasts bundled into a music subscription people already pay for.
  7. Castbox — ranked #77
    Castbox
    Cross-platform listening with in-episode search.
  8. AntennaPod — ranked #88
    AntennaPod
    Open-source, ad-free and entirely RSS-based.
  9. Audible — ranked #99
    Audible
    Audiobooks first, with an expanding slate of original spoken series.
  10. iHeartRadio — ranked #1010
    iHeartRadio
    A broadcast radio group that became one of podcasting's biggest publishers.
  11. SoundCloud — ranked #1111
    SoundCloud
    Where plenty of shows quietly hosted their first hundred episodes.
  12. Podbean — ranked #1212
    Podbean
    Hosting and listening in one product, aimed at independent shows.
  13. Deezer — ranked #1313
    Deezer
    A European music service with podcasts folded in.
  14. Player FM — ranked #1414
    Player FM
    A catalogue-first app built around discovery rather than subscriptions.

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Comments

Video for a medium built on audio read as a category error until the biggest shows started filming themselves in studios: https://youpick.best/articles/where-does-youtube-rank

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