r/podcasts

Podcasts - discover, discuss, review

Founded January 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 23

r/podcasts: a subreddit to discover, discuss, and review podcasts with other podcast enthusiasts. As part of this mission, r/podcasts is curated to promote respectful and on-topic discussions. This is not a place to promote your podcast.

Members

3,914,627

3.9M

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

12.3

from the last 100 posts, spanning 8.1 days

Comments per post

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

not assessed yet

Last post

Sep 22

sampled Sep 23

Distinct posters

96%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Sep 23 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

Tracking since Sep 23 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/podcasts — frequently asked

How many members does r/podcasts have?

r/podcasts has 3,914,627 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 23. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/podcasts growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/podcasts yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 23; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/podcasts?

Around 12.3 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 8.1 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/podcasts created?

r/podcasts was founded in January 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/podcasts?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 96% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 22. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/podcasts?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/podcasts yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/podcasts for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/podcasts into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/podcasts's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/podcasts's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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r/podcasts Subreddit Stats — 3.91M members, 12.3 posts/day