Spreaker
The one-stop-shop for recording, publishing, monetizing and distributing your podcasts.
Website: www.spreaker.com
Owned by: iHeartMedia
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Spreaker is IAB Certified
Spreaker was certified for v2.1 of the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines on Jul 26, 2021.
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Latest news
- May 2: Spreaker is now the #2 podcast hosting company by new episode releases, according to Livewire. (Since Spreaker now supports podping, Livewire can more reliably see all new episodes released on the platform). Spotify for Podcasters is still the most popular; the rest of the top five are Buzzsprout, Omny Studio and Podbean.
- Mar 27:
Exclusive: The Podcast Show in London has all gone a bit Pete Tong - the renowned DJ has been announced as the host of the Spreaker and Triton Digital official party. A number of speakers for The Podcast Show have also been announced: including Will Pearson and Carrie Lieberman from iHeartPodcasts, Alison Lomax, YouTube’s UK Managing Director, and Richard Knight, the Director of Audio for BBC Studios. The event’s in May - use
PODNEWS10to save on selected passes. - Mar 12: Libsyn has added support for podcast transcripts. Users can upload a transcript in SRT or VTT format. Need one making? Libsyn’s competitor Spreaker offers a website (and desktop app) offering free podcast transcription for everyone.
- Mar 6:
As one open standard gets integrated by Apple (the transcript), another has been integrated by Spreaker. The company now supports podping, a near-instant way of communicating to podcast directories that you’ve published a new episode. Already supported by companies like Buzzsprout, Blubrry, Transistor, RSS
.com and Captivate (and us!), the addition of Spreaker adds a signficant number of shows, says John Spurlock. - Feb 20: Spreaker has launched Supporters Club, a monthly subscription service.
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