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
It was certified for v2.1 of the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines on Jul 26, 2021.
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Latest news
- Nov 19: 22.7% of shows started on Spotify for Creators in January haven’t posted a new episode since the end of February - that’s better than the average, as is 20.4% for Ausha, 18.9% for Megaphone, 12.6% for Podbean and 12.3% for Libsyn. As you’d expect, podcast hosting companies with well-publicised free trials show the highest levels of podfade, including Spreaker (40%), RSS (71%) and Hubhopper (83%).
- Nov 14: BlogTalkRadio is to close on Jan 31. One of the earliest podcast and live-streaming hosts, it launched in January 2006. It merged with Spreaker in August 2017; Voxnest bought Spreaker in 2018; iHeart bought Voxnest in 2020. Most recently it’s been part of Triton Digital. In August this year, it hosted 3,293 podcasts.
- Nov 7: Spotify for Podcasters is still the #1 podcast hosting company, in terms of share of new episodes. Spreaker increased its hold on the #2 slot; Buzzsprout remains at #3. Acast has moved up to #8, with an all-time record share of 2.5%.
- Sep 23:
Pocket Casts uses the standard
podcast:transcriptfeature in your podcast RSS feed. It doesn’t generate transcripts for you: like your thumbnail image and your audio, it’s all in your control. Podcast transcripts are supported by a number of large podcast hosting companies, including Blubrry, Buzzsprout, RSS.com, Transistor, Spreaker and others. - Sep 5: Spreaker has made changes to its auto-optimisation feature, which adds advertisements to podcasts. The company looks as if it has opted more podcasters into the tool, which appears to now recommend more ad breaks - some podcasters report an ad break is being inserted every five minutes. (You can adjust it back down).
Data credits: IAB, Podnews newsletter