🆚 Apple Podcasts vs. Spotify for Creators
- 📈 Apple Podcasts is five times more popular than Spotify for Creators.
- 🌎 Apple Podcasts is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Spotify for Creators is more popular in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Estonia.
Apple Podcasts
Spotify for CreatorsType
About
Apple Podcasts is a podcast distribution and streaming platform from Apple that allows users to discover, follow, and listen to shows across Apple devices.
It provides creators with 
RSS-based distribution and directory listing, supports paid subscriptions and channels through Apple Podcasts Subscriptions, offers episode transcripts and offline listening, and synchronizes playback across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and CarPlay.
Spotify for Creators is a free platform for creating, hosting, and distributing podcasts and video shows, formerly known as Anchor, that combines publishing, audience management, and monetization tools in one service.
It provides free hosting with RSS distribution to major listening platforms, supports both audio and video podcast publishing, and includes audience analytics with engagement features such as comments and polls.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Taiwan in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Audio Streaming category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Audio Streaming category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Audio Streaming category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Brazil in the Audio Streaming category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Audio Streaming category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Canada in the Audio Streaming category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Vietnam in the Audio Streaming category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Podigee🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.