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 21: Podnews keeps an eye on shows moving from one podcast host to another, and it’s worth a peek every so often. Spotify for Podcasters gains a lot of shows, but has a high churn rate, losing around half the number of the shows it gains. In the last thirty days, Simplecast, Captivate and Acast are the other winners; Soundcloud, Omny Studio, Libsyn and Buzzsprout are the losers.
- Oct 14: Small Ball with Kenny Beecham is now with Vox Media. The show is hosted by YouTube star and NBA superfan Kenny Beecham, and provides year-round basketball coverage and publishes weekly on Fridays during the NBA season, Beecham will share his unique insights through game analysis, player stories, and more. Vox Media will look after sales, marketing, and distribution; the show was formerly with Captivate.
- Sep 27: In the Podnews Weekly Review this week, we talk to Mark Asquith from Captivate about his company's new Spark AI product; and more about the decision by Spotify to close Chartable.
- Sep 25: Growth-oriented podcast host Captivate has launched Captivate Spark AI, what it calls a “fully integrated AI assistant”. The tool delivers transcripts, episode titles and suggested times for ad breaks: and will also suggest potential new guests and episode subjects, as well as trend analysis. The tool is charged at $1/hour for transcription: transcripts are compatible with Apple Podcasts and Pocket Casts.
- Sep 18: Buzzsprout has achieved the latest IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines compliance to v2.2. Megaphone achieved v2.2 in late July; Captivate and Audiomeans are the only other podcast hosting companies to be compliant with the latest standard.
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