Deezer podcast statistics: the share and the silence

Deezer podcast statistics split into two sets of numbers that never meet. Deezer is a listed company that reports subscribers, revenue and profit in detail every six months, and podcasts appear in none of it. The only measurable podcast figure is download share, which Transistor's September 2026 hosting data puts at 0.121%, or roughly one request in 800.

Deezer podcast statistics at a glance

Why Deezer reports so much and says nothing about podcasts

Deezer is listed on Euronext Paris, which obliges it to report in a way Amazon Music and Apple Podcasts never have to. The July 28, 2026 half-year release gives subscriber counts by business line and geography, revenue split three ways, adjusted EBITDA, net income, free cash flow and a cash position.

The word podcast does not appear in that release. Deezer has reported this way for years, which places podcasts inside the music subscription as a catalogue feature rather than as a line with its own revenue and cost.

That has one useful implication. Deezer's reported growth, and the 8.7% rise in direct subscribers against a 3.5% fall in the total, describes the music subscription business. Reading it as evidence about podcast reach on the platform would be a mistake, and the reverse holds too. A weak Deezer podcast share says nothing about Deezer's health as a company.

Reading the 0.121% figure

Transistor is a podcast host that publishes an aggregate app breakdown across every show it hosts, updated in September 2026. The Deezer line sits at 0.121%, between Castro at 0.122% and NPR One at 0.118%.

Two caveats matter more here than for the larger apps. Transistor's customer base is heavily English-language and North American, and Deezer's subscriber base is not: 3.9 million of its 5.8 million direct subscribers are in France. A dataset with more French, Brazilian or Middle Eastern shows would put Deezer higher.

The second caveat is that 0.121% is small enough to be noise at the individual show level. A show with a thousand monthly downloads would expect roughly one Deezer request, which is not a number you can read a trend from. Aggregate shares only become meaningful for your own show once your download volume makes the app's slice countable, and what counts as a podcast download covers the counting rules that apply either way.

What being on Deezer actually costs and gives you

Submission is a form. You enter your RSS feed on Deezer's creator page, retrieve a verification code from the email address published in the feed, complete the show details including producer name, genre, country and explicit flag, accept the terms, and submit. Acast's documentation says the show appears on the platform within about 24 hours.

After that, Deezer streams your episodes from your own hosting rather than holding a copy, so listens reach you as downloads tagged with the Deezer client string. There is no Deezer podcaster dashboard, no play count, no completion data and no follower figure.

A one-time submission with no ongoing maintenance and no dashboard to reconcile costs about ten minutes. The payoff scales with how much of your audience lives in Deezer's strongest markets, which for a French-language show makes this a real distribution question rather than a checkbox.

Where Deezer sits among the smaller platforms

Deezer belongs to a group of directories that list podcasts as a feature of a music subscription. Amazon Music sits in the same group at 0.574%, and both are far behind Spotify's 19.027% in the same dataset.

Their disclosure differs sharply. Deezer publishes detailed financials with no podcast data, Amazon Music publishes almost nothing at all, and Spotify reports podcast figures including catalogue size and video podcast reach in its investor materials.

Apps built specifically for podcasting behave differently again. Overcast, on 2.908% of downloads, sends you a subscriber count in its crawler user agent despite being a one-person operation, which is more than any music service provides.

If Deezer is a real share of your audience, its discovery surfaces have their own logic, and how to rank on Deezer charts covers what those respond to.

Checking your own Deezer number

Look at your host's app breakdown rather than the industry average, and look at it by country if your host supports that. A show with a French audience can see a Deezer share many times the 0.121% figure, and no platform-level statistic will tell you that.

Then decide based on volume, not percentage. If Deezer sends you fifty downloads a month, it is a checkbox you already ticked. If it sends you five thousand, it is worth understanding how listeners there find shows.

Start with Podder Analytics to see your Deezer share by country alongside every other app, counted the same way.