Podlytic Launches Free “Data Vault” Platform to End Podcast Analytics Data “Loss”

Podlytic, a new podcast analytics platform, hard launching Feb 18th 2026 to solve a problem the podcast industry has acknowledged but never fixed: when podcasters switch hosting platforms, they lose access to their entire analytics history. When Spotify shut down Chartable in December 2024, more than a million podcasters lost access to their cross-platform analytics overnight. Most of them are still scrambling for a replacement.

Podlytic’s answer is what the founder and Emmy-winning filmmaker Cris Graves calls a “Data Vault”: a platform-agnostic analytics archive that accepts CSV exports from any podcast hosting platform and combines them with real-time listener data from OP3 (Open Podcast Prefix Project) into a single, persistent dashboard. The result is a complete picture of a podcast’s performance history that survives any platform migration, permanently.

“Every podcaster who has ever switched hosts knows this feeling,” said Cris. “You export your CSV files, you can’t make them out, so, you drop them in a folder, and never look at them again. Meanwhile, your growth story resets to zero on your new hosting platform. Podlytic turns those forgotten files into a living, breathing dashboard that gifts you with data sovereignty that no platform can ever gatekeep or take away from you.”

Cris built Podlytic out of firsthand frustration. While migrating her podcast, Blissful Spinster from Simplecast to Riverside, she hit the wall every podcaster dreads: “Existing analytics from your previous host are not automatically imported. The analytics you’ll see after migration will reflect activity from Riverside onward” (Riverside’s Step-by-Step Migration Walkthrough). She begrudgingly exported her CSV files, took one look at them, and had a horrible flashback to high school statistics class. Years of listener data, episode performance, and geographic insights locked in spreadsheets no dashboard could read. As an Emmy-winning filmmaker, Cris did what any self-respecting producer would do when the thing she needed didn’t exist: she built it.

The platform addresses what Cris calls “data jail”: or the hi-jacking of analytics that keeps podcasters tethered to hosting platforms they’ve outgrown. With no single platform replacing all of Chartable’s features, most former users now patch together multiple tools to replicate functionality that was once centralized. A typical setup involves a hosting platform for IAB-certified download stats, Spotify for Creators for audience segmentation, and a separate service for trackable links. The result is what the industry describes as “isolated data islands”: audience intelligence fragmented across dashboards, making it nearly impossible to show sponsors a continuous growth story.

Podlytic eliminates this fragmentation by design. The platform currently parses CSV exports from Simplecast, Transistor, Chartable, Megaphone, and is adding other major platforms, as new users join and upload their new to Podlytic CSV files. With support for batch uploads covering years of historical data along with multiple hosting platforms – users with podcasts that may have been around for decades and moved hosts multiple times in that period will have the satisfaction of seeing their podcasts history come to life before their eyes as charts and insights are populated. Paired with the users current analytics powered by an OP3 integration, and YouTube Analytics support Podlytic provides unified audio-and-video tracking for podcasters publishing across formats.

Key features include: CSV upload and parsing from any major podcast hosting platform; current listener analytics via OP3 integration; YouTube Analytics integration for video podcast tracking; interactive dashboards with geographic mapping, platform breakdowns, podcast specific insights, A.I. driven predictive analysis and episode rankings; team collaboration tools for networks and multi-show operations; and historical data preservation across unlimited platform migrations.

“The podcast industry has a data sovereignty problem,” Cris added. “Every time you switch hosts, your analytics history gets held hostage. Podlytic is built on the principle that your growth data belongs to you. Period. Your Data Vault is yours, regardless of where you host tomorrow.”

Unlike venture-backed analytics platforms, Podlytic is being built in public by a solo founder who treats every new user as a collaborator. Cris has chosen radical transparency over polish, inviting early adopters into what she calls “the group project” of shaping the platform alongside her.

“I’m not a tech company with a team of fifty engineers,” Cris said. “I’m one out-of-the-box-thinking rebel with a cause, learning as I go and building this thing from the ground up with my users. There will be growing pains. Features will ship live and get debugged in real time. All I ask for is a little patience, because once the dust settles, Podlytic will be the platform indie podcasters have been dreaming about and podcast marketing agencies have been searching for.”

Podlytic offers a free tier (Pod Vault) for individual podcasters with up to two podcasts, with Pod Vault Pro ($15/month) and Pod Vault Max ($25/month) tiers for expanded analytics and team features. A limited Founders Vault lifetime deal is available at $75 for early adopters (only 148 spots left).

Podlytic is available now at podlytic.io.

“Honestly, we need tools that help us separate signals from noise, and indicators from signs. Podlytic is helping me do both, early in my journey.” — Jonathan Jackson, Independent Podcaster –  The Due Dilly Podcast