Find subscriber numbers for a podcast?

[ExtraSlow]

How do you find subscriber numbers for a podcast? Like not your own podcast?

I'm going to be on one in January for work, and I was hoping to find the subscriber numbers to impress my bosses.

[Thaco]

I think only the publisher would know that, there are so many platforms they'd have to have some sort of aggregation tool to compile them all... most of them do this to impress/entice/show value for advertisers, so they should have the numbers available.

[ExtraSlow]

No third party source?

[ExtraSlow]

Nobody? What's to stop someone from claiming they have a "#1 most popular podcast" then?

[Buster]

i think the itunes rating is as close as you are going to get. And the number of subs if they also publish to youtube.