About My Podcast Data
My name is Ilias Chaumont, and I'm the person behind My Podcast Data. I built it, I run it, and it's just me. No team, no company, no association, no lobby. Just one person and the raw objectivity of the data.
Why MPD exists
Apple and Spotify dominate podcast discovery. They rank shows, surface recommendations, and shape what people listen to. But they never explain anything. Why is a show in the top 100? What do the shows in a given ranking have in common? How often do they publish? How long are their episodes? That information exists. It's just never shown. MPD was built to change that.
The idea is simple: take a ranking, and make it readable. What are the trends? Who are the dominant players â authors, studios, hosting platforms? If you produce a sports podcast with 10-minute episodes while the category average is closer to an hour, that's a fact worth knowing. Whether you see it as a differentiator or a weakness is entirely up to you. MPD doesn't decide. It shows.
Who's behind it
Before MPD, I spent three years working with podcast data at Acast, one of the industry's big hosting companies. That's where I understood the deep structure of a podcast: how data is created, what's visible to listeners, and what exists but stays hidden. I also hosted my own podcast for more than six years, so I know this medium from the creator's side too, not just the data side. These two experiences gave me three perspectives on podcasting: the host's, the author's, and the listener's.
MPD is completely independent and is not tied to any hosting platform, network, studio or distribution service. Regardless of where a podcast comes from, it is treated the same way, with the same objectivity. No favours, no exceptions.
Independent by design
Everything MPD shows is verifiable. It comes from first-party declarative sources â Apple and Spotify APIs, and RSS feeds as declared by their authors â collected legally, with no scraping and no estimation. No outside party influences what is shown or how it is processed. That independence is what makes the data trustworthy. MPD's infrastructure is hosted in Europe.
What makes it different
Most podcast directories either replicate the same rankings or add editorial picks on top. MPD does neither. It takes those rankings and makes their contents readable: trends, averages, dominant players â facts that are technically available but never surfaced anywhere else.
It also goes further. The link mesh between shows â built from the URLs authors choose to include in their episode descriptions â is a factual connection that exists nowhere else. Two shows that regularly cite the same sources have something in common, regardless of category. That's not a recommendation. It's a fact you can trace back to its source.
Curious about how the data is produced? See the Methodology.