Captivate
Address: 
30 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7JZ, UK
Easy, professional podcast hosting to create, grow and make money from your podcasts
Website: www.captivate.fm
Owned by: Global Media & Entertainment Limited
Captivate is IAB Certified
It was certified for v2.2 of the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines on Jul 19, 2024.
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Latest news
- Oct 2:
Livewire published its podcast hosts by episode share data for September, based on all 1.5 million episodes published that month. At #2, Spreaker jumped from 15.2% to a record 17.1% (they’re the company Inception Point AI uses for its wholly AI-generated shows); the #3 Buzzsprout saw a record share of 10%. Simplecast (#6), RSS
.com (#7), Transistor (#9) and Captivate (#10) are also sitting on record highs. However elsewhere in the top ten, heritage brands Podbean (#4) and Libsyn (#8) posted their lowest-ever numbers. - Aug 22: Growth-oriented podcast host Captivate has announced a significant set of new product launches later this year. Products include a saleable feed drop platform; Captivate Ads, an ad marketplace that scales with your podcast (including access to the DAX marketplace); and Captivate Studio, its own remote recording tool, able to record up to seven participants which is integrated into Captivate’s existing guest booking and interview management toolset.
- Apr 16: Independent podcast app Pocket Casts now, it seems, supports the
podcast:fundingfeature in the new podcast namespace. It allows podcasters to link directly to pages that will help them earn money. The feature is supported by a large variety of podcast hosting companies, including Buzzsprout, Blubrry, Captivate, RSS.com, Transistor and many others. (Podnews podcast pages also support it). (Thank you, Devon!) - Feb 28: Wondering what podcast host to use? Podnews maintains a page showing which podcast host existing podcasters are moving their show to - seems, as ever, that Megaphone and Spotify for Creators are hoovering up all the shows. That said, a lot of shows making their way to Acast, Captivate, and... Substack.
- Feb 21: After last year’s Podnews Report Card highlighted the difficulty of submitting a show to Apple Podcasts, Apple has fixed things - rolling out a new, streamlined, process to automatically submit a show for creators using selected podcast hosts. It removes the requirement to open an Apple account first. The launch podcast hosts are: Audioboom, Audiomeans, Ausha, Blubrry, Buzzsprout, Captivate, Castos, Hubhopper, Libsyn, Pinecast, Podbean, Podspace and Transistor.
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