Captivate
Address: 
30 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7JZ, UK
Easy, professional podcast hosting to create, grow and make money from your podcasts
Website: www.captivate.fm
Owned by: Global Media & Entertainment Limited
Captivate is IAB Certified
It was certified for v2.2 of the IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines on Jul 19, 2024.
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Latest news
- Jan 19: New inductees to the Hall of Fame included former attorney at EFF Julie Samuels, who successfully fought a legal battle against a patent troll, Captivate founder Mark Asquith, Podcast Partnership's Paul Colligan, PRX's Kerri Hoffman, Arielle Nissenblatt, and our Editor, James Cridland. A video of the event, hosted by John Lee Dumas, is on the Podcast Hall of Fame website.
- Dec 11, 2025:
Mark Asquith, Founder of Captivate \
- Dec 8, 2025: The first inductees for the Podcast Hall of Fame 2026 have been announced. They are: Dan Carlin, the host of Hardcore History; podcasting’s Arielle Nissenblatt, and CEO of Captivate, Mark Asquith. Tickets for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony are available now.
- Oct 29, 2025: Podcast host Captivate has recertified for IAB Podcast Measurement Guidelines v2.2.
- Oct 2, 2025:
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.
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