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
- Feb 28: Wondering what podcast host to use? Podnews maintains a page showing which podcast host existing podcasters are moving their show to - seems, as ever, that Megaphone and Spotify for Creators are hoovering up all the shows. That said, a lot of shows making their way to Acast, Captivate, and... Substack.
- Feb 21: After last year’s Podnews Report Card highlighted the difficulty of submitting a show to Apple Podcasts, Apple has fixed things - rolling out a new, streamlined, process to automatically submit a show for creators using selected podcast hosts. It removes the requirement to open an Apple account first. The launch podcast hosts are: Audioboom, Audiomeans, Ausha, Blubrry, Buzzsprout, Captivate, Castos, Hubhopper, Libsyn, Pinecast, Podbean, Podspace and Transistor.
- Feb 7:
Earlier this week, Livewire published data showing the share of new podcast episodes by hosting companies. Spotify for Creators saw a three point jump in share to 27%, its highest number for six months; the #2, Spreaker, also saw a record share of 14.3%; and #3 Buzzsprout posted an almost two-year high of 9.4%. Also posting highs were Captivate (the highest share since 2022) and RSS
.com, its highest share ever. - Jan 27: Buzzsprout is the best podcast hosting company, says TechRadar in a review that also gives special credit to Podbean, Libsyn, Captivate and Transistor.
- Jan 6: Global, the media and entertainment group based in the UK, published its full company accounts for year-ending Mar 31, 2024. The company is held privately, so this is dry reading really only meant for the tax authorities; but one thing we do learn is that (p43) the company’s North American operations, which mainly consists of audio ad sales company DAX, saw £44mn (US $55mn) in revenue (a figure that’s static year-on-year). The company also owns podcast hosting company Captivate, as well as many UK radio stations and UK outdoor advertising businesses.
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