Podcast Index
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Latest news
- Oct 7: The Podcast Index has updated its terms of service, reducing it from 1,088 to just 168 lines.
- Oct 5: The Podcast Index has launched Podcast Robot, a full MCP server for AI assistants. The tool lets you ask questions to your assistant about podcasts, to discover new ones.
- Oct 1: The Nigerian Podcast Index released its 2026 Industry Report. It says that the amount of podcasts coming out of the country has nearly doubled; but that the number of "podfaded" shows - shows that have stopped publishing - has also significantly increased.
- Sep 7: Opinion: We've covered companies sending these sorts of things before. Where a photograph for a thumbnail has been used under licence from a publisher, then our legal advice (and the advice of stock image libraries that we asked) is that this use should be covered by the publisher's licence: even if a resized/cached copy of an image by a directory is made for privacy or technical purposes; there is some US case law to that effect. But - a slow hand-clap to the German dpa, who it appears may succeed in closing the only German podcast directory, giving more control to the US-run directories of Spotify, Apple and Podcast Index which are outside their legal jurisdiction. We've asked dpa for comment: they haven't replied.
- Aug 28: Audacy is to close its podcast hosting and monetisation service, Audacy Creator Lab, on Nov 1. Launched as Podcorn in 2019, which was acquired by Audacy for $22.5mn in 2021, the new "Creator Lab" was announced at Podcast Movement Evolutions in Apr 2025 - making some podcasting companies angry at its marketing tactics. It announced YouTube integration this March. There appear to be just 426 shows hosted on Audacy Creator Lab in the Podcast Index, though you could also take part in the Creator Lab Marketplace wherever you were hosted.
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