Steven Bartlett and Ex-MrBeast Engineer Launch New Platform Flightcast to Revolutionize Video Podcast Distribution, Analytics and Growth
Steven Bartlett, host and creator of The Diary Of A CEO (DOAC), today announced the launch of Flightcast, a powerful new platform built to help video podcasters grow their audience. The platform, co-founded with Roxcodes, the former engineer at MrBeast, is a direct response to the fragmented and time-consuming workflows that hold back today’s top creators.
Flightcast is an all-in-one platform for distributing, analyzing, and growing video podcasts across YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and more. It simplifies everything from multi-platform distribution to advanced analytics—a system that Bartlett credits with the rapid growth of his DOAC, one of the fastest-growing podcast brands globally.
Steven Bartlett said: “Flightcast brings together all of the tools we built to help us grow The Diary Of A CEO. The demand for high-quality video podcast content is skyrocketing, but the process for creators has been unnecessarily complex and time-consuming. We’re giving them back their most valuable asset – time – by simplifying every step from distribution to growth, with the most valuable analytics currently available.”
Roxcodes (center), co-founder and CEO
Roxcodes, Flightcast’s Co-Founder and CEO, brings years of experience developing tools for the world’s biggest content creators. He said: “The biggest creators hire full-time data scientists to find the 1% gains. Flightcast cuts through that with software that supports creators to quantify their data, truly understand their audience, and unlock their true potential. It’s taking the playbook of the world’s biggest creators, and delivering it to the wider industry in one platform.”
The platform launches with two standout features.
First, a unified upload flow that consolidates all video and audio — a first in the industry. Creators can finally upload video to YouTube and Spotify, while sending audio everywhere else, in a single screen.
Second, a unified dashboard that consolidates all analytics. Instead of juggling data across YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and other platforms, creators get a single view of performance, enabling faster insights into what is actually working.
Key Features of Flightcast:
- One Upload, All Platforms: Distribute video to YouTube and Spotify, and audio to Apple Podcasts and all major audio platforms with a single upload.
- Unified Analytics: All video and audio metrics in one place. Not just views & downloads, but advanced stats like CTR, AVD, returning viewers & listeners, and more.
- AI-Powered, Automated Video Clips Channels: Automatically generate AI-edited clips of episodes, and automatically upload them to YouTube. Flightcast tracks which clips get views, and reports back to you on what moments are actually performing.
- AI Data Analysis: Take advantage of every ounce of data Flightcast has, and ask our AI to give you insights about your own podcast.
- AI Trained On You: Generate titles, descriptions, and chapters that actually sound like you to save hours each month.
Flightcast is now available in early access at [flightcast.com].
FlightStory: A Global Media and Investment Company
The launch of Flightcast solidifies Steven Bartlett’s dedication to innovation in media and his mission to support creators in scaling content production and distribution through strategic investments. His global media and investment company, FlightStory, creates, produces, and scales creator-led media formats - including some of the world’s most successful podcasts that will be utilising the power of Flightcast.
The company provides the infrastructure for creators to turn content into companies. It is home to The Diary of a CEO (DOAC), now the world’s second-biggest host-led podcast and fastest growing podcast in the world. It is also one of the fastest-growing new media companies in Europe. In its first year alone, the studio launched multiple hit formats, including We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson and Begin Again with Davina McCall. Both of these new Podcasts reached #1 on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and at its one year anniversary, We Need To Talk had achieved 600M views across all platforms and gained 1M followers. In the same year, DOAC surpassed 1 billion streams, secured more than 12 million YouTube subscribers and increased its commercial value by 143%. Each episode of DOAC is now translated into 12 languages and in the last 3 months alone, Diary Of A CEO has reached 35 million people globally.
Meanwhile, Bartlett’s global investment fund has invested in a range of great and rapidly growing companies, including SpaceX, Whoop, Groq, Zoe, Huel, MrBeast, PerfectTed, and more.
Most recently, Bartlett announced a significant investment into Stan Store - officially becoming a co-owner of the company - the all-in-one creator store designed to help creators easily monetize their audience. This has enabled its creators to generate more than $250M in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) on the platform to date.
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