Anchor
This company is no longer trading under this name
Anchor is now branded as 'Spotify for Creators'
Owned by: Spotify
Latest news
- Oct 22: Exclusive: On Air Fest is celebrating ten years of the event by celebrating ten years of big moments that have happened at On Air Fest. The event began in the same year as Podnews, in 2017: The On Air 100 lists a hundred moments that have shaped the event and the industry - including Spotify buying Gimlet and Anchor in 2019, YouTube jumping into podcasting in 2022, Netflix's first podcast agreement in 2025, and plenty more. More than two thousand people have been involved; the On Air 100 lists many of them, and the On Air studio box light has remained constant throughout the ten years. Tickets for the tenth On Air Fest are on sale today, for 40% off.
- Sep 29: Michael Mignano, the RSS-averse founder of Anchor, is back: this time, launching a thing called Supertake. It "leverages frontier AI and trading agents to transform your unique takes on the world into real, shareable investment portfolios."
- Sep 25: As we type this, the Apple Podcasts "top self-improvement shows" for the UK contains The Mel Robbins podcast at #2, and, um, The Mel Robbins Podcast at #28. The second one is suspiciously "by Mel Robinss", with two "s"s, and is hosted on Spreaker. Or, rather, was hosted on Spreaker: the pirated show has been pulled down. (This issue is as old as free podcast hosts: we reported this happening on Anchor in August 2020).
- Apr 15: Michael Mignano has joined Union Square Ventures as a General Partner. He was co-founder of Anchor, now part of Spotify.
- Feb 13: With Airwave: In November 1940, the Royal Navy launched one of the most audacious carrier operations of the Second World War—a nighttime air attack on the Italian fleet anchored at Taranto. History of the Second World War is telling the story of the planning and preparations behind Operation Judgement.
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