Buzzsprout
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5133 San Jose Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32207, USA
Start podcasting - keep podcasting
Website: www.buzzsprout.com
Owned by: Higher Pixels
About Buzzsprout
Founded in 2009, Buzzsprout has helped over 400,000 people launch their podcasts. It’s the easiest way to get your show online, listed in every major directory, and distributed to listeners everywhere. Buzzsprout is based in sunny Jacksonville, Florida.
Buzzsprout is IAB Certified
It was certified for v2.2 of the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines on Sep 16, 2024.
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Latest news
- Oct 3: Buzzsprout quietly raised its pricing for new customers in August, it appears. Pricing in July started at $12/month; by August, the lowest price had switched to $19. The company bills on hours uploaded.
- Oct 2:
Livewire published its podcast hosts by episode share data for September, based on all 1.5 million episodes published that month. At #2, Spreaker jumped from 15.2% to a record 17.1% (they’re the company Inception Point AI uses for its wholly AI-generated shows); the #3 Buzzsprout saw a record share of 10%. Simplecast (#6), RSS
.com (#7), Transistor (#9) and Captivate (#10) are also sitting on record highs. However elsewhere in the top ten, heritage brands Podbean (#4) and Libsyn (#8) posted their lowest-ever numbers. - Sep 30: Buzzsprout has launched a podcast name generator, which not only comes up with names for your potential show, but also checks whether they’re being used. It’s free for everyone.
- Sep 26: Exclusive: This week in the Podnews Weekly Review podcast, we speak with Inception Point AI CEO Jeanine Wright, about her AI-driven podcast company. The company released a show about Charlie Kirk within an hour of his shooting, we learn; and traditional podcast companies are “just not finding sustainable business models”, she says. You’ll find the interview in full, wherever you get your podcasts - it’s sponsored by Buzzsprout.
- Sep 10: Getting your own dot-com is the most sensible thing you can do to own your podcast. Some podcast hosts like Buzzsprout allow you to use your domain name for your podcast website; or companies like Podpage will let you have a more advanced website wherever you host your show, all powered by your RSS feed. (There’s a discount for Podnews readers). And there’s always GoDaddy to grab a domain - use these codes to save on your own dot-com.
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