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About Podbean
Podbean is a podcast hosting and monetization platform that helps creators and businesses publish, grow and earn from their shows. Plans include unlimited storage, unmetered bandwidth, advanced podcast stats, a custom podcast website, monetization tools and one-click distribution to major listening apps. Learn more at podbean.com.
Podbean is IAB Certified
It was certified for v2.2 of the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines on Jan 7, 2026.
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Latest news
- Oct 28: Podcast hosting company Podbean has launched an MCP server, allowing integration with AI tools. It's available for those on Unlimited Audio plans or higher ... meanwhile Headliner added clip scoring to its tool, so you know how well the clips are likely to perform.
- Oct 28: Podbean Brings AI-Powered Podcast Workflows to Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor With the Launch of its Official MCP Server - Creators can now run end-to-end production, publishing, and analytics through natural conversations with their favorite AI assistants, making sophisticated podcast workflows accessible to everyone. PRESS RELEASE
- Aug 26: Good news: Podbean stats seem to be getting back to normal, after rolling out a change to its stats that marked all downloads from Apple Podcasts as invalid.
- Aug 25: Podbean podcasters were given a shock this week, as the company rolled out new filters to its download analytics "designed to identify and filter AI and crawler-related traffic" - but the change marked all downloads from Apple Podcasts as invalid, causing a significant decrease in reported numbers to its customers. Podnews has seen data from some podcasts showing hundreds of plays on Apple Podcasts Connect, but apparently zero downloads to Apple Podcasts in Podbean's analytics dashboard during the same time period. One support email says: "We recently pushed an update to mitigate disingenuous traffic from accessing podcasts on our side. Unfortunately, this inadvertently also affected the genuine traffic reporting. It has been advised that we rolled back our current update." If a rollback has happened, no change has been visible in the numbers as yet.
- Jul 20: Podbean is the latest podcast host to support what it describes as "HLS Video Information in podcast RSS feeds" - which we think is support of the alternateEnclosure, allowing compatible podcast apps to access the video version.
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