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There are over 800,000 valid podcasts in Apple Podcasts, according to new data from Daniel J Lewis’ My Podcast Review Service. Lewis has launched a new webpage to track the podcast industry’s growth.
My Podcast Reviews is a service for podcasters to see and share all their podcast reviews from every country. Lewis launched My Podcast Reviews in 2014. In 2018 he published “What New Data Suggests about Podcast-Hosting Customers,” which revealed never-before-seen data on the podcast industry and reported the total number of podcasts as approximately 609,000 at that time. “In late 2018, I began building a new service to collect and serve podcast-industry data that no one has had access to before.”
Over the next year, Lewis continued working on a new backend for My Podcast Reviews, collecting gigabytes of data along the way. “When we launch our upcoming new product in 2020, podcasters will be amazed at the data we’ll be able to show them and—even more importantly—how they can use that data to improve and grow their own shows,” said Lewis. “With Apple Podcasts’ surpassing the milestone of 800,000 valid podcasts on December 10, this seemed like a perfect time to launch our new Podcast Industry Statistics page and announce our new Data Concierge service.”
Lewis says the new Podcast Industry Data Concierge Service will allow podcasters, agencies, advertisers, interview-bookers, and others to get custom data on the podcast industry. “Want a weekly list of all new podcasts matching a particular query? We can do that. Want a list of all podcasts from the Business category with 10 or more episodes that have been active in the last week and have more than 100 ratings and reviews? We can do that. We’ll customize a plan for your data needs!”
Along with counting the total number of valid podcasts, the new Podcast Industry Statistics webpage also reports the total number of available episodes (over 27.6 million), the number of podcasts added and removed from Apple Podcasts each day, and multiple dimensions of activity.
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